My Story
What a story
A few years ago I found myself standing at the front door of my dream home clutching a notice that it would be foreclosed on in thirty days. I called the mortgage company thinking there must be some grave error and that the notice was for some other property. I was a successful physician in private practice and my husband had a well-paying corporate job. This sort of thing simply did not happen to people like us. But the mortgage company confirmed the mortgage hadn’t been paid in months. And I would be required to come up nearly $100,000 by the end of the month or else they would proceed with the foreclosure.
Based on family financial discussions with my husband I thought we had that amount in savings, so I confidently told the mortgage company I would have a cashier’s check to them in two days. It was then that I was further devastated to discover our savings was completely empty.
Not long after, our family was then rocked by more legal troubles as well as an overwhelming breast cancer diagnosis. This was my introduction to survival mode. I had accomplished everything I set out to achieve. I was successful in my profession. Yet, for all of my accomplishments I was still isolated and empty.
And I found myself craving significance, not just success. I decided on two things at that time. First, from then on, I would live life on my own terms. And second, I was going to keep my home. “If I don’t have value in my own home, where do I have value?” Is it success if you’re checking off all the professional boxes, and still feeling a sense of emptiness when you go to sleep at night? You have accomplished so much. . . so why are your relationships suffering? Why do you feel so expendable? Why are you not living your best life? Is this IT? It doesn’t have to be. Therapy helped immensely. I asked all of these questions and more. When my husband didn’t value me enough to offer an explanation for our legal troubles or much of anything we were going through, I accepted that he didn’t see my worth enough to honor me as his wife or the woman I was becoming. And that was a woman who refused to ever feel inadequate again. “Who am I becoming?” When you decide you want to live an extraordinary life and go from surviving to thriving, you must first find the courage to be vulnerable and commit to awakening the parts of you that have long been buried by various traumas. But you don’t have to do it alone. In The Soul Revival you will find the courage to face the deepest parts of yourself and speak to your own soul at the intersection of heart, mind and being. This deep mastery of connection to your innermost self is where you will discover your highest self and your true purpose.
