Your Journey

In the book of our lives, every experience is a chapter that reveals wounds we need to heal, strengths we must discover, and what no longer serves us.

My journey did have chapters as an anxious teen with a chronically ill father, navigating financial uncertainty and emotional upheaval. I could navigate these teenage issues through focus, perseverance, and hard work, building a sense of stability.

However, these lessons did not prepare me for the challenges that lay ahead when my firstborn faced a fatal congenital heart disease. Neither hard work, nor focus nothing I knew before prepared me for this pain. This experience reshaped my understanding of motherhood . After losing my toddler son, I found prayers and faith helped me build the courage to have two more children.

Just when I thought the worst was over, life presented another lesson in the form of single parenting and my father passed after a long bout of illness at the same time. I had to truly understand grief to even process it. Each transformation required a new perspective; while some experiences taught me grit and perseverance, others emphasized the importance of letting go.

Ultimately, all these lessons converge into a simple truth: to be in the present and live it well focusing on “One Step Towards Joy” each day. The journey is never linear nor a fixed path. I have shared all I have done in my path of healing which continues everyday.

Each section below contains a metaphor, a moment, or an experiment that reflects how I’ve understood these experiences. By exploring these insights, I hope you can navigate your own paths, too.