META 21 Days

I was born to a devoutly religious and dedicated family, where service and self-sacrifice was the first priority. I always felt my purpose lay beyond the small town in which I grew up.

I had my first son at 18 and four years later, was immersed in raising three incredible little boys which were (and are) the most joyous challenge of my life.

Flash forward half a decade.  I found myself in a turbulent marriage, far from family, friends, or any support. I lost all self-identity and was only known as a wife and a mother. For years, the only person that called me by my first name (after many moves as a military wife) was my husband.

I began searching for a sense of self-worth that wouldn’t diminish the role I  cherished; that of a mother.

Ten years after the birth of my youngest son, my daughter was born, and at the same time what I call my “Goddess Warrior Attitude” was ignited.

I began to realize the family life my children and I were enduring was not sustainable or healthy. I desperately wanted to remove myself and my four children from the toxicity. For the ensuing three years, I prepared for the next phase of discovering my strength in the form of single motherhood.

Through a 23-year journey of success, failure, laughter, and tears, including 12 years in the darkness of addiction, painful and beautiful lessons revealed themselves to be invaluable to me.