As you may or may not know, I am on a journey to finish writing my book. My book’s title is “5 Steps to Fabulous: Choices for Living Beautifully, Inside & Out”.
Since I started talking about it a few years ago, many of my colleagues and friends have encouraged me to embrace the process…you know, the one of telling your story. Everyone has one to tell.
The more I work on my book, the more excited I get, because in sharing my story I continue to heal.
Here’s the thing…when you’ve been abused, have suffered from depression and have lived in dark spaces that you later realize exist only in your head…you are only able to get to a better place when you speak about those things out loud. When other people who share similar feelings and who show you, that you’re not the person you thought yourself up to be (you don’t have to believe everything you think) knowing that you’re not alone is quite liberating.
When I told a friend about my book her question to me was, “What makes you think you have the know how to tell others how to live a ‘fabulous’ life?”
Great question and a few years ago, I would have let that question break me down. But I pointed out to her that her question is precisely why and my know how.
You see, thinking I was broken, I spent too many years living to please others, too many years thinking of other people’s feelings and needs before my own, too many years questioning my existence.
Several years ago, I faced the demons in my head…the monkeys, the crazies…whatever you choose to call them…and through prayer and A LOT of self love my book details the choices I made to live what I now consider to be a fabulous life.
As I do here on my blog, I share with you what worked for me, but above all…how it’s YOUR life and YOUR choice to decide how you live it.
So, my know how is my journey, my journey is my why.
I also know that in sharing your story…you set others free.
Onward Chicas! To living fabulously!