If you’ve experienced it… chances are, I have been there, too. Not to be too presumptuous or anything, but think I can say with confidence, I’ve been through the wringer in my relatively short life, so not much shocks or phases me.

I’ve been through a lot of disaster, chaos, and pain. I’ve been abused (in all the ways you can be abused), suffered from drug addiction, and had severe mental illness, (including pretty devastating bipolar disorder, PTSD, panic attacks, and anxiety). 

I’ve dealt with a major health crisis that robbed me of my twenties, I recovered from breast implant illness, experienced dire poverty, tremendous loss and grief of loved ones, grew up in a world with a lot of disfunction, and experienced the terror of being a very young single mom with no support. 

For the longest time I had no sense of self, no sense of a future, and spent years of my life deeply suicidal. Yes, by most definitions, I’ve suffered.

And you probably have, too.

Maybe, like me, you were also born a highly sensitive person, or even identify with the word “empath”. That leads to its own, deep and confusing kind of pain, doesn’t it?

But I made it.

It took a lot of tenacity, massive action, dedication, and insane patience to climb that mountain and get over to the other side… And it all started with a CHOICE.

I made the firm and conscious choice to DREAM and choose a different path than the one I was on. That was the most difficult part. I had to tap into what I know now are my (and your) primary superpowers: choice, will and love .