As part of human experience we all walk thru life storms. My major storms took on the form of loss of my mom to breast cancer early in life, my first born daughters autism diagnosis, having breast cancer and completing treatment myself. Pain being part of life is not unique but the way different people put the pieces back together is unique for each person. I know and admire people who never let a “good storm” go to waste and truly squeeze every drop of goodness out of any difficulty, I belong with that crowd. I’m not perfect at it but I have faith that there are always mustard seeds of goodness in any storm. Here are a few footprints that brought me here:
- The importance of being brain smart AND heart full when making decisions.
- My story is becoming someone else’s survival guide right now.
- There will be hard times, for sure, those times will illuminate all the goodness I have been given but taken to granted.
- I don’t want to be known for being a warrior girl, what I want is to be a girl who knows her own purpose and has her brain, heart and soul working in unison to fulfill it.
- Everyone wins when we pick our own lane and focus on driving there. When the immediate circumstances try to rattle, I choose to stay in my lane and quietly persevere.
- Don’t BE the storm – this gives the storm power, instead, walk beside the storm, absorb its wisdom in your life story and apply it to your purpose – integrate and grow thru what you go thru.
- If I survived and thrived it is now my responsibility to share what I can to help others do the same in their story.
- I could never live my full life until I gave up on being afraid of dying.
- Pruning after the storm, creates space for a new direction that flows from lessons learned.
- Making a high probability or a conservative call. Varying situations call for one or the other. Staying home and riding out hurricane Dorian was a high probability call for us, choosing to do chemo was a conservative call. The cure percent rate is in the 90s, it makes sense to go concervative given the stakes.