Changing Our Stories Changes Our Life

Through becoming aware of our stories, we give ourselves the opportunity to choose how to move forward and I believe that’s one of the most important parts of a healing journey. Choice brings empowerment, hope; it is a reminder of what we have a say in. Exercising our choice in our healing is often a challenging process. Many times the very things that harmed us in life involved not having choice. To unlearn those beliefs takes so much courage. Life rewards our courage, our choice to show up for ourselves, and our movement toward healing though it might not happen in the exact way we want it to or on the exact timeline we hope it does. In my mid-twenties, after I’d wondered for years about my family, someone gave me an Ancestry.com DNA kit as a gift. When the results came back, I found out my heritage. I could finally identify where I came from i a small but meaningful way. I don’t believe any of us should have to face so much of what we do face in our lives. I do, however, believe that when we utilize those experiences for the betterment of our lives and possibly the lives of others, those experiences can become more than just a hard story.

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