Carrie Bucalo is an Army wife, mother, artist, and writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. After being sexually abused by her biological father, an active lay minister in the Catholic Church, she ran away from home at eighteen years-old, and joined the Carmelites of Santa Fe, New Mexico. There she studied prayer and mysticism in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 

In 2005, Carrie married Justin Bucalo, who serves in the United States Army. The couple has six children and has been stationed in various places around the world. 

In 2010, Carrie founded the website: Healed By Truth, to share her essays, The Spiritual Journey of Healing, and to promote faith-healing for abuse survivors and their families. For the past two decades, Carrie has advocated for the spiritual needs of abuse survivors and the wounded in the Catholic Church. 

In 2023 Carrie co-authored, Matthew 18, a conversation between a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and a Catholic Bishop, with Bishop Bill Muhm, from the Archdiocese of Military Services, U.S.A. and she currently writes for the bestselling Magnificat.