Maggie Boxey

Maggie Boxey, author of The 3 Things, is a Navy veteran and former 6th grade math teacher, living in her hometown of Fitzgerald, Georgia. Due to disabling chronic illness, she can no longer teach, but the experience of teaching was the hardest yet most rewarding of her working life. She lives with three of her five children, her retired Marine husband, and their three cats and a Pitbull mix named Jack.

She has been sober and in recovery for seventeen years.

Her passion for progress and equity in her community has led her to serve on the board of directors for SOWEGA Rising, a Black-led nonprofit dedicated to progress in Southwest Georgia. Maggie shared her story of living with ME/CFS with Congress in April of 2024 as an advocate for SolveME and is a current member of Georgia’s chapter of #MEaction.

In her pre-illness life, Maggie was a runner, fitness enthusiast, and jiujitsu practitioner (earning Gracie Women Empowered and Combatives belts). Now when she's not preaching about The 3 Things or being of service—mostly on Zoom, though she does get out occasionally—you'll find her trying to figure out parenting while bedbound, meditating, trying to get herself to write, painting watercolors, crocheting, gaming, cuddling with Jack, or vying for the affection of the cats, who of course prefer her husband. She is eternally grateful for her caregivers and her friends in recovery.