Remember why we are here.

1/12/2025

This is a new beginning to a new year and also the beginning of this new blog. However, when a new beginning is on the horizon, it is important to take a moment to focus on where you are now and how you got here. This helps create a new, clearer roadmap to where you want to go. This is what I am doing now. I am going to take a moment to review where I am and why I got to this place so that I can build a route forward.

I was just recently reminded, through a conversation that I had, or my purpose in life. I am an average person but I have not lead an average life. I use to think that the universe was punishing me for something because of all the things that it put me through. By the time I was nineteen, I was a single mom, had lived through homelessness, was a rape survivor, and had dealt with abandonment. It took me a long time to realize that these events were shaping me into a person who had the ability to listen and empathize with others in a way that is unique.

I am still on my own journey and I hope to always be learning and moving forward but I want to share what I have learned to help other people, who have been though hard times, to regain their power and become who they want to be. If I can go from not having a high school degree, suffering from suicidal depression, and living off of welfare to being a self-sufficient, college graduate, who fully cares for myself as well as being able to be there for others when they need me.

This year is about me telling my story so that other people, who have been through the same things that I have been through, do not feel alone. During every difficult event in my life, I had a prevailing feeling of being utterly alone and like no one would be able to understand me. Because of this feeling, I never talked about what I was going through with anyone else. I wander how many of us go through these same emotions and never speak up because we feel like we are the only ones. I would have healed so much faster if I had known that what I was going through was something others had already dealt with. If I had known that my feelings wore normal and valid, maybe I would not have surprised them for so many years.

I know that I had to go through these things to provide others with what I did not have. I want to validate that you are NOT alone and that your feelings are just as important and valid as anyone else’s. I am here to share my own story but I also want to hear yours. I want to be here for you as you make your own journey and walk together down this path of life, holding each other’s hands.