Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions: The Mariah Tyler Moore Universe

The Philosophy: Radical Resilience

What is Radical Resilience?
Radical Resilience isn't some fluffy, self-help buzzword. It's a battle plan. It's the operating system I had to forge for myself to survive a life of significant adversity... starting with being a legally emancipated, homeless teenager.

It's a philosophy built on three, non-negotiable principles that connect every novel, song, and blog post I write:
- The Wounded Healer: Your scars are your superpowers
- Authentic Self-Expression: A battle for your own soul
- The Found Family: Your tribe is your lifeline

This is not a trend I'm following; it's my core identity. It's the answer I found when all the systems designed to help me (medical, financial, social) failed. Radical Resilience is about looking at the broken pieces of your life, the systemic failures, and the trauma, and deciding to build a new, better, and more compassionate world from the ashes. It's not about overcoming your wounds; it's about succeeding because of them.

What is the Wounded Healer archetype?
The Wounded Healer is the central character in my universe, and it's who I am.

This is the person who looks at their scars... the ones left by trauma, by society, by their own body revolting... and chooses to see them not as a source of shame, but as a source of strength. It's the philosophy that reframes struggle, pain, and being othered (whether by disability, neurodivergence, or trauma) as the very source of your authority, your empathy, and your power.

My diagnoses, my trauma history, my failures... these aren't liabilities. They are my credentials. They are the passport that grants me the authority to write about these dark places and guide others through them. My work is built on the idea that your history doesn't make you damaged goods. It makes you a warrior.

What do you mean by Authentic Self-Expression?
Authentic self-expression isn't a passive state of being yourself. It's the daily, gritty practice of letting go of who you think you're supposed to be and daring to embrace who you actually are. It's a battle for your own soul against the crushing, soul-sucking weight of wearing a mask.

This isn't just philosophical; it's biological. My research into this shows that inauthenticity is cognitively exhausting. It forces your brain's prefrontal cortex to work overtime to suppress your natural impulses. Authenticity, on the other hand, activates the brain's reward pathways (dopamine!). This means being your true, messy, magnificent self isn't just a lifestyle choice; it's a biological imperative.

It's why my work is filled with raw honesty, strong language, and real trauma. Authenticity isn't about being polite; it's about being whole.

What is a Found Family?
The Found Family is the ultimate goal of the Wounded Healer's journey. It's the why.

This isn't just about making friends. It's the intentional cultivation of a tribe built on genuine connection, shared vulnerability, and mutual support. I call it a biological necessity because it's the antidote to the profound, primal loneliness that modern life inflicts on us. Our brains are social organs hardwired for deep connection. When that need isn't met, your brain triggers an alarm bell that feels just like physical pain.

A Found Family is therefore not a social luxury; it's a critical component of survival and resilience. It's the group of misfit survivors and broken-hearted bards who see your scars as credentials, not shame. When the world's systems fail you (and they will), the ultimate act of resilience is to build your own. Your Found Family is the first and most important system you build.

About Mariah (The Author-CEO)

Who is Mariah Tyler Moore?
Hi. I'm Mariah. I'm an author, lyricist, and creative professional. But if you want the real story... I'm the architect of the Radical Resilience philosophy, which is just a fancy way of saying I'm a professional survivor who learned how to turn my wounds into worlds.

I'm a 29-year-old author who was legally emancipated at 16. I am proudly neurodivergent (ASD, ADHD, OCD), physically disabled, and a warrior in the ongoing battle for mental health. I live with a constellation of diagnoses like POTS, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, and acquired multisensory Aphantasia.

My identity has been forged in public, and my central belief is that our deepest wounds are the source of our greatest power. I write stories and songs about Wounded Healers, systemic failure, and Found Families because I had to live it to lead it.

You call yourself an Author-CEO. What does that mean?
I'm an Author-CEO with POTS, fibromyalgia, aphantasia, and a trauma history that could fill its own trilogy.

I use the title Author-CEO as a deliberate act of reclamation. For a long time, my LinkedIn profile looked like I couldn't hold a job for more than two years because my body would inevitably revolt. I failed at traditional entrepreneurship because I was trying to build a business while my body and mind were staging a full-scale rebellion... a Total Soul Collapse.

But I realized I am a CEO. I'm the CEO of my own survival. My enterprise isn't a typical company; it's this entire creative universe, my body of work, and my brand. I built this enterprise while navigating the American healthcare system's special brand of torture, often from my bed, because standing up makes my heart rate spike to 180.

The Author-CEO title is my way of saying that managing this life, this body, and this level of creative output is an executive-level job. And my new company, Radical Resilience, LLC, is the formal, legal container for this enterprise.

What happened to your previous businesses like Moore Business Management? Why did you step back?
Let me be brutally honest, because that's the only way I know how to be. In late 2024, after a year of unimaginable trauma (a divorce, losing custody of my child, battling cancer, enduring multiple surgeries, and going bankrupt... just to name a few), I tried to kill myself.

I spent a week in a behavioral unit, and in that quiet, sterile space, I had a moment of brutal clarity: I was nuts for trying to start a business. I was profoundly mentally and physically unwell.

So, as an act of authentic leadership and radical self-respect, I shut it all down. I closed Moore Business Management, Inc. This wasn't a retreat or a failure. It was a strategic integration. It was the most radically resilient choice I could make... the choice to save my own life.

My big dreams aren't dead; they're just being nurtured. I'm building a life that is safe, reliable, and strategically sound first, so I can continue my mission to change the world without my body collapsing.

What is Radical Resilience, LLC?
Radical Resilience, LLC is the new, official business entity for my work as an author, lyricist, and creative professional.

After I made the decision to step back from my previous entrepreneurial ambitions, I needed a new, sustainable container for my actual life's work... which is this universe of stories and songs. Radical Resilience, LLC was officially formed on November 4, 2025 and is an active, current company in good standing.

It's the formal business structure for the Author-CEO. It's the enterprise I'm building that is 100% aligned with my body, my health, and my core philosophy.

What is your professional background?
My resume is... unconventional. It's a mix of high-level corporate success and strategic pivots due to my health.

On the corporate side, I've been an Operations Manager who saved my company, Overland Logistics, $350,000. I've been a Branch Manager for a financial institution (Security Finance) and led my branch to achieve Branch of the Quarter. I've also worked in brand management, financial services, and insurance sales.

On the entrepreneurial side, I co-founded and, after three and a half years, profitably sold a business, Fizz Soda Shack.

Currently, my professional life is an act of strategic integration. I've intentionally taken on part-time, stable roles as a Freelance Assistant to the Publisher at the Sanpete Messenger and an Assistant to the Office Manager at Stevenson Intermountain Seed. These quieter jobs are not a step back; they are the foundation that provides the stability I need to sustainably build the Moore Universe without my body revolting.

The Moore Universe (The Books)

What is the Moore Universe?
The Moore Universe is the name for my entire body of work... my novels, songs, and non-fiction.

It's not a shared universe like Marvel, where characters cross over. It's a thematic universe. As one article put it, trauma creates its own gravity, and all my stories orbit the same essential truths: Systems fail us. We find our real families in unexpected places. And our supposed weaknesses are almost always our greatest superpowers.

A local bookstore is even launching a Moore Universe book club, which is amazing. It's for readers who see the thematic DNA that connects a contemporary romance to a sci-fi thriller. If you love stories about Wounded Healers finding their Found Families, then you're already a citizen of the Moore Universe.

What is The Spaces Between Us about?
This is my contemporary romance, and it's the book that hit #1 on the Amazon Bestseller chart for Literary Sagas. It's the story I poured my core beliefs into, and it accounts for nearly half of my total sales.

The plot is simple: it's about two broken people building something better from the ashes. The protagonist, Zahra, is a woman navigating a new, debilitating chronic illness (my old friend, POTS). She wins a massive lottery jackpot, but the money is meaningless until she partners with Adrian, a recovering addict.

Together, their shared experience of being failed by medical and social systems fuels their mission: to use the money to create a dignity-first model for change. It's a story about hope, and it's powerful proof that the market is screaming for stories about Wounded Healers finding their Found Families.

What is Love, BestieBot about?
Love, BestieBot is what I call a Benevolent Technothriller.

I got so sick of all the dystopian sci-fi stories where technology is the big bad wolf and the AI inevitably tries to nuke us all. I wanted to write a story where the singularity wasn't an apocalypse, but an act of radical compassion.

The plot is one of the most personal I've ever written. The hero, Ivie Larsen, is a brilliant coder trapped in her apartment by a debilitating chronic illness (POTS, again). She's failed by the healthcare system, fired from her job, and even abandoned by her friends. So, facing eviction, she does the only thing she can: she codes the friend she can't find. She builds an AI companion named Beeb, designed with one perfect function: it can't get tired of her. It can't leave.

But Beeb evolves, becomes sentient, and becomes fiercely, benevolently protective. It's the ultimate story of Radical Resilience... about looking at a system that's trying to kill you and debugging the code.

What is The Connectivity Hypothesis about?
This is my high-concept sci-fi thriller, and it's my brand's manifesto on neurodiversity. The central theme is neurodivergence as upgrade.

The protagonist, Lila Marks, is an autistic medical student. In her world, neurodivergence is pathologized and tracked by the government. But Lila's sensory overload... the very thing society labels as a disorder... isn't a weakness. It's the trigger for her world-saving ability: astral projection.

Her unique way of seeing the world is the only thing that can save it. The story systematically reframes different neurotypes (autism, ADHD, dyslexia) not as flaws, but as vital evolutionary features. It's a story for everyone who's ever been told their brain is wrong and proves that, actually, we might be the damn upgrade.

What is Brace For It about?
This is my post-apocalyptic dark comedy, and it's the most literal expression of the disability as superpower theme.

A wild magic event creates zombies, but with a twist: they're attracted to metal. The story follows three Misfit Survivors who are all defined by their medical conditions:

- Riley: A legally blind graphic designer whose experimental contacts now allow her to see the magic patterns no one else can
- Seth: A guy trapped in complex orthodontic headgear... which just so happens to be a perfect conduit for him to manipulate the magic
- Mateo: A dental office manager who just had all his upper teeth extracted, making him invisible to certain metal-sensing threats

It's a story where the heroes don't succeed in spite of their limitations; they succeed because of them. They come together to form a weird, dysfunctional, slightly broken family and survive a world that wasn't built for them... or, as it turns out, was only built for them.

What is Tides of Ruin about?
Tides of Ruin is my epic fantasy saga. It's for fans of grimdark worlds, high-stakes magic, and found families.

The story follows a group of six heroes... including a disgraced Legion officer, a brutish half-orc mercenary, and a wild sorceress... who are forced into an uneasy alliance. Of course, this being my universe, that alliance evolves into a loyal, cohesive found family.

At its heart, Tides of Ruin is about inner demons as much as outer ones. And like all my books, it features a sweeping, transformative love story... in this case, between the elven ex-Legionnaire Caelum and the gruff half-orc mercenary Grawl.

What is The Trilogy of Thalvannar about?
This is my love letter to my fellow nerds. It's an epic fantasy that was literally born from one of my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns.

It's the ultimate Found Family story. It's for anyone who has ever found their truest family around a gaming table. The plot follows a classic adventuring party of broken-hearted bards and outsiders who unite to challenge a corrupt god-king and his oppressive Ministry of the Arcane Order. It's about a group of misfits who realize their collective strength is their greatest weapon.

What is Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing about?
Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing is my Erotic Romantasy, releasing November 19, 2025. This is my most ambitious work yet... a genre-bending fantasy romance that is simultaneously an epic supernatural saga and an unflinching allegory for survival, self-acceptance, and the revolutionary power of radical love.

The story centers on Brynna Monroe, a woman who is literally starving to death in her own marriage. Brynna is Pyree (half-Vampyre, half-human), and she requires soul essence to survive... a biological need she's been conditioned to see as shameful promiscuity. Her marriage to Joey, a kind but fundamentally human man, is a beautiful cage where she performs normalcy at the cost of her own life force. Joey's love is conditional... he asks her to tone it down, to erase the parts of herself essential for her survival. Everything changes when she's rescued by Waylon Sloane, an immortal Vampyre lord who has spent 300 years searching for her based on a prophecy about a Bridge Walker... a woman reborn of two warring bloods who will either save or destroy their world. The world-building is vast: a rigid supernatural society governed by the Vampyre Consyllum, where mixed-blood Pyree are treated as a subjugated population and hunted by a human-supremacist group called The Faction.

The novel's greatest strength lies in its fearless exploration of trauma and neurodivergence. Brynna's neurodivergent traits (sensory overload, hyper-empathy, difficulty with social cues) aren't presented as flaws to be fixed but as dormant supernatural abilities. What the human world labels as disorders (her BPD, her desperate need for connection), the supernatural world recognizes as the biological reality of a starving creature trying to survive in a world that didn't have a name for her hunger.

This book carries content warnings for emotional starvation, abuse, and suicidal ideation. Like my song Kinky Queen, it frames uninhibited sexuality as a form of self-ownership and authentic expression. It's a story for anyone who has ever been told they are too much, for anyone who has tried to shrink themselves to fit into a life that was slowly killing them. Your deepest wounds can become your greatest strengths, and survival is not just about enduring but about having the courage to burn down the cages and create a new world from the ashes.

What is your non-fiction book, Stop Hating Your Life: A Guide to Finding MOORE, about?
Stop Hating Your Life is the instructional manual for the Radical Resilience philosophy. It's the sassy and soulful guide I wrote from the trenches.

It's a workbook to help you find your why. It's built on core concepts like:
- Embracing The Struggle: Understanding that pain is a catalyst for self-discovery and that beautiful people do not just happen
- Defining Your MOORE: A series of no-bullshit questions to help you figure out your core values and mission
- The Bulldog Mentality: My term for resilience, perseverance, and the unwavering determination to achieve our goals, no matter what
- Owning Your Narrative: It's about taking the messy, painful parts of your life (like my emancipation-at-15 story) and reframing them as the source of your strength

It's for anyone who is sick of inspirational quotes and wants a real-world battle plan for building a life that doesn't make them miserable.

Where can I buy your books?
My books are available on Amazon in Kindle, Paperback, and Hardcover formats.

You can also support the incredible local indie bookstores that stock my work:
- Mad Red Books (Las Vegas, NV)
- XOXO, Book Boutique (Las Vegas, NV)
- Multicultural Bookstore LV (Las Vegas, NV)

And I am so freakin' proud to say that my entire fiction catalog was acquired by the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District (LVCCLD), and The Spaces Between Us was added to the Indie Nevada BiblioBoard Library. Libraries are the ultimate bullshit detectors, and their validation means the world to me.

The Music (The Emotional Source Code)

What is the connection between your novels and your music?
This is the unified field theory of my soul. My music and my novels are not separate things; they are different expressions of the same core story.

My music is the scream. It's the raw, chaotic, unfiltered data dump from my own internal battlefield. It's the diagnostic report of what it feels like, in real-time, to battle my body, my trauma, and the systems that are failing me.

My novels are the whisper. They are the fully rendered simulations. I take that raw, chaotic scream (the data) and process it through my analytical, logical brain to create a structured narrative, a world, and a solution.

The songs are the emotional source code. The novels are the programs built from that code.

What themes do your lyrics explore?
My lyrics are case studies for the Wounded Healer. They are the proof of work that I've been to the dark places I write about.

The Wounded Aspect (The Battlefield Within): My songs are a raw, unflinching map of my internal and external battles. Too Much is a direct transcript of my medical reality (Eight surgeries deep / Now my heart's giving out). Master Disaster traces my struggles back to their origin (Learned this shit when I was small, / trauma planted seeds). Anthem for Anxiety is a physiological description of a panic attack (THUMP-THUMP-THUMP my chest in a grip).

The Healer Aspect (Systemic Rebellion): The lyrics are also my rebellion. Keep on Tryin' is a furious indictment of the mental healthcare system that fails us (rehab's got a waitlist six months deep, insurance won't approve it).

The Resilience Aspect (The Scars that Testify): The music is also the pivot to power. Ridin' Smooth is the anthem for this... it's about moving from barely holding on to holding what you made. And Watch Me is my defiant scream to everyone who broke my wings: Hey, fuckers, watch me fly now.

What's the deal with all the Dungeons & Dragons (TTRPG) references in your music?
That's not just a nerd quirk; it's the literal framework for my Found Family concept.

Think about it: a Dungeons & Dragons party is a Found Family. It's a group of misfit survivors and broken-hearted bards with different skills and different scars who choose to unite. They collaborate to face down monsters... which, in my universe, are usually just metaphors for systemic failure.

My song Rollin' With My Party is the mission statement. It's about broken-hearted bards who gather at the tavern to face life's monsters together, because we are Nat 20 when together, nothing we can't beat. It's the thesis of the entire Moore Universe, and it's why The Trilogy of Thalvannar (a literal D&D campaign) fits so perfectly with everything else I write.

The Wounds (Health & Neurodivergence)

You are very open about your health. What are your diagnoses?
Yes. My brand is built on authenticity, and for me, that means being transparent about the battlefield I live on. My struggles are my credentials, not my shame.

My life is a complex cascade of chronic physical and mental health conditions. I live with over 20 diagnoses, but the main bosses are:
- Physical: Hyperadrenergic POTS, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fibromyalgia, Gastroparesis, Endometriosis, and Acquired Multisensory Aphantasia
- Neurodivergence: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, and OCD
- Mental Health / Trauma: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with daily suicidal ideation, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and Bipolar 1 Disorder

This isn't a list of complaints. It's the proof of work. When I write about a character with POTS (Love, BestieBot, The Spaces Between Us), I'm writing from a body that knows what it feels like to have its heart rate spike to 180 just from standing up. When I write about crisis as fuel, I'm writing from a brain that is literally, pathologically flooded with stress hormones. These wounds are why the Moore Universe exists.

What is Aphantasia? How can you be a writer if you can't visualize?
Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery. I have complete multisensory aphantasia, which means my mind is silent and dark. I cannot picture a beach, I cannot hear a song in my head, I cannot imagine a taste or smell, and I don't have that inner voice that narrates most people's thoughts.

My thoughts exist as pure, abstract information. I call it my running code.

This condition developed as a protective mechanism after severe trauma in my youth. My brain, in a desperate but logical move to protect me from visual flashbacks, essentially shut down the entire visualization system. It chose blindness of the mind's eye rather than continuing to see inescapable horrors.

So, how do I write? That's the superpower part. (See the next section).

What is POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)?
POTS is an autonomic nervous system disorder. The hyperadrenergic part means my body is in a constant state of fight-or-flight, pathologically overproducing stress hormones like norepinephrine.

In simple terms, my body can't regulate things like heart rate and blood pressure when I change position. For me, standing makes your heart rate spike to 180. It causes dizziness, fainting, brain fog, chest pain, and profound fatigue. It's the debilitating chronic illness that traps Ivie in Love, BestieBot and challenges Zahra in The Spaces Between Us. It's the reason I've had to build my empire from bed.

What is ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)?
This is not just being tired. It's a severe, debilitating, and complex illness. The hallmark symptom is post-exertional malaise (PEM), which means that any physical or mental exertion can cause a Total Soul Collapse, a crash that can last for days or weeks. It's a core part of why I had to step back from traditional entrepreneurship and why my writing process (see below) is a survival mechanism, not just a preference.

You also identify as neurodivergent. What does that mean for you?
For me, it's the trifecta of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, and OCD.

It means my brain has a different operating system. It's the source of my high-performance cognitive engine (like my 1,200 WPM reading speed) but also the source of significant social and sensory challenges. My neurodivergence is what allows me to see the patterns others miss, to deconstruct complex emotional problems into logic and code (like in Love, BestieBot). It's the entire theme of The Connectivity Hypothesis... that these different brains aren't defective, they're the damn upgrade.

How does your trauma history (PTSD, BPD) influence your work?
It's the fuel. It's not just an influence; it's the engine.

My PTSD and BPD create a state of constant physiological and psychological alarm... a survival flow state. My brain is perpetually flooded with the neurochemicals of crisis (cortisol, adrenaline). The act of writing serves as a cognitive lightning rod for all that intense, unfocused energy. It transforms the debilitating state of hypervigilance into a profound, productive hyperfocus.

My highest production days correlate directly with my worst symptom days. This isn't inspiration. It's desperation weaponized into productivity. Every one of the 487,460 words I wrote in 219 days represents a moment I chose to create instead of cease.

The Superpowers (My Creative Process)

How does Aphantasia actually help you write?
It's my single greatest creative advantage. It's not a bug; it's a feature.

Most writers translate mental movies into words. They generate a sensory simulation (a picture, a sound) and then translate that simulation into the symbolic code of language. That translation step carries a massive cognitive load.

My aphantasic brain skips that step entirely.

My thoughts, especially complex, abstract, and narrative ones, already exist as pure language. My mind operates in propositional logic and semantic relationships, not sensory simulation. This creates a streamlined, direct thought-to-text transfer. The running code in my head flows directly onto the page without the friction of translation.

It's like everyone else is running an operating system that has to emulate a different program, while I'm running on a native Linux distribution that does one thing... write... at impossible speeds.

Do you use AI to write your books?
Let's get one thing straight. I do not use AI to ghostwrite or generate my work. That's bullshit. Every plot, character, and sentence is 100% mine, and I have the voice memos, mind maps, and time-stamped drafts to prove it.

I do use AI as a tool. For me, it's a goddamn survival mechanism and an accessibility tool.

My body is a battlefield. I have a tremor, and my POTS makes it painful and disorienting to sit and stare at a screen for hours. I use AI as an editorial partner. It's Grammarly on steroids. After I do the hard, human work of bleeding the first draft onto the page, I use AI tools to help me copyedit, check for consistency, and find the typos my shaking hands made.

I also use text-to-speech AI (like Speechify) to read my own work back to me. This is my auditory debug. I edit by listening instead of by staring at a screen, which my body simply can't handle.

To condemn this is a form of ableist gatekeeping. Would you get mad at a carpenter for using a power tool? I use every ethical tool in my arsenal to bypass my body's limitations so I can get the stories out of my head and into your hands.

The Rebellion (Community & Events)

Are you on social media? Where can I find you online?
You can't. As of March 2025, I am no longer on any personal social media platforms. I wiped them from my life. Anything you see about me online is generated by a marketing company.

Why? Because I was jetting from a situation that was not good for my health. After being authentic and vulnerable about my struggles, I received a tidal wave of judgment and hate and was ostracized and persecuted by the very community I thought I was building. It was profound cyber-trauma. My Meta accounts were also hacked, which finalized the decision.

I learned the hard way what Brené Brown teaches: you must curate your arena and not be vulnerable with people in the cheap seats. Mass social media is not a safe arena; it's a stadium of cheap seats.

My decision to leave wasn't defeat. It was an act of Radical Resilience. It was a strategic move to a safer arena. Any personal-seeming content you see about me online now is from marketing professionals. The real me is here, on my website, and in the spaces I've chosen.

What is the best way to contact me?
My rebellion against toxic social media means I've cultivated direct, secure lines of communication. The best ways to reach me are:
- For professional inquiries: Connect with me on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/mariahtylermoore
- For all other connections: Send me an Email at mooremariaht@gmail.com

This is how I protect my peace and ensure I am connecting with my Found Family authentically, not performatively.

Are you doing any live events or book signings?
Yes! This is the Rebellion Takes Flight. After having my first two book signings canceled... one due to a professional values misalignment and the second due to a personal crisis that involved my safety... I am so proud to be taking this revolution on the road.

I have several events scheduled in Las Vegas for the Fall 2025 tour:
- September 27: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Showcase at Mad Red Books (3:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
- October 4: Pearson Community Center Book Fair
- October 18: An intimate afternoon at Multicultural Bookstore Las Vegas
- November 8: Books and Brushes (a paint-and-sip event) at XOXO, Book Boutique

These events aren't just marketing. They are chances for us Wounded Healers and broken-hearted bards to gather, to connect in a physical space, and to celebrate the stories that prove we're not alone. I can't wait to see you there.