I remember while writing my book, my editor asked me a very powerful question… Are you writing because you have a story to tell, or a message to spread? I, of course, tried to say both, but she wasn’t having it. I thought for awhile, and decided that while I have a story to tell and weight to get off my chest, my real purpose with the book is to share a message of empowerment. To Empower Women to Heal by teaching and inspiring them to Love Yourself
, Heal Your Body and Mind, and Celebrate Life.
Now that the book is alive in the world, I understand her question. A story is contained within a book. A message is a movement. And while the book is my story to overcome chronic pain and disease
, contained within those pages is a bigger message of how I transformed my mind, body, and spirit through unconditional self-love, self-care, and letting go of what I thought my life SHOULD be.
This movement is something I feel as I speak with women. There is this need to be connected to each other, and to ourselves. There is a NEED to be empowered and inspired to do the work to FIND that connection.
My work in this world is to empower women to discover their true selves…and not by following or copying what I did, but to give them tools to create their own path.
This week these tools for empowerment show up as the Rewired Life Blog Tour. I am excited to be collaborating with 17 amazing people from AROUND THE WORLD in digging deep into the meaning of Loving Yourself, Healing Your Body and Mind, and Celebrating Life.
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Hi Audrey, My name is Jeanette and I am starting to get to a point in my life where I can see the end of the tunnel. I am empowering myself with decisions and my family and friends are supporting me in this. My husband passed away in November and over the last month I have only had three breakdowns where I cried at night from missing him. That’s an improvement over the 2-6 times every day in the first four months. My life has turned topsy-turvy but with the help of good friends and family I am coming out of that tunnel of darkness and reaching for the light. I have made plans to finish out this year with my work at a high school. Then the last week in December I am heading for Idaho where I will go to school full time and get my degree in education. Then I’ll come back to TX and work as a 1st or 2nd grade teacher. I taught pre-k for years but I can’t get up and down from the ground very easily so I’m taking a step up. I had to wait to leave until I turn 60 so I could qualify for part of my husband’s Soc. Sec. They won’t even talk to me until Dec. but I need his money to live on while I go to school full time. I am trying to look for joys in little moments because I’m tired of waiting for joy to come into my life. I can get joy out of meeting my 3 year-old grandson at his daycare every morning and getting my nosey-nosey/kiss/kiss and big hug routine. He loves to tell me “Nana, you so pretty.” and as I leave for work he waves me the ASL sign for I Love You. That just makes my day! I totally believe we have to be actively engaged in making our own joyful moments and not sit around waiting for something to happen. Although it is nice when it does happen spontaneously. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with all of us.