Sharing My Story is Something I Never Thought I’d Do

When people asked me about the scars on my arms I would tell them it was a bad accident when I was a child. I hid the scars for most of my adult life but that was hard to do in the hot summer months. I don’t think anyone really believed me, but that didn’t stop me from repeating the same story whenever the question was asked.

I did try to minimize the scars at one point, but it didn’t work, and I was left with a constant reminder that I was a survivor of a family gone wrong. And so, the scars and I lived peacefully together for decades until the day of my 77th birthday in October.

I’ve been a student of The Secret for years and understood The Power of Positive Thinking. I did the work and saw the magic, but on my birthday something truly spectacular happened. In a burst of awareness that felt like giving birth I was tasked with sharing my story. To be fair, part of this awareness came from repeated attempts to encourage my neighbors and friends to live more active lives. Many seemed to have lost their mojo way too early. Although they didn’t seem happy with their decision to hibernate and disengage, they seemed destined to live the rest of their lives in near solitude. This can’t be right for many of us. At 77 the world is still my oyster. This deliberate fading away bothered me. Many of us had rough years, either as children or later in life, but those years don’t have to define us forever.

There’s so much life left for all of us to seize and celebrate!

On my birthday, after my hairdresser made a disaster of a new hairstyle that was going to herald in my new year (a situation that undoubtedly contributed to what happened next), I started feeling labor pains. For years The Secret had taught me to focus on where I was going instead of where I had been. It promised me a path to understanding my place in this world. And just like that, on that significant day in October, reinvention mode kicked in. It was reinvention on steroids, automated, as if I was channeling it. This reinvention was going to be raw, real and live. I jumped online, registered a domain name and built a website.

Please join me on this journey.