Eleven years ago, I had no tangible experience nor did I have the confidence that experience creates. And I lacked one other essential ingredient……a financial alternative. But, now I had a support net. I’d worked hard and I had something to show for it, plus a supportive husband who encouraged me to follow my heart. 

In the beginning, I’d been afraid to let go of my “freedom” as a creative spirit. But, funny thing about that. The corporate world that I, at one time, so desperately feared had become my lifeline….a paycheck and annual raises I could count on…security. I was holding on so tightly to the known because I feared re-entering the world of the unknown. Until one day I realized that the known didn’t feel so secure any more. As a veteran in our department, I’d slowly lost my voice over the past couple of years as new leadership entered the scene. The significance that I’d worked so hard to create didn’t seem significant anymore. Instead of energizing me and breathing new life into me as fulfilling careers should do, I felt used and spent, as though the life was being sucked out of me. Sunday nights were the worst because Monday morning was only a few hours away. That’s no way to work, and it’s certainly no way to live.

That’s when I knew it was time to let go. I reasoned that if the known wasn’t adding to my life, I might really be missing out on some truly amazing experiences that awaited me outside those walls. I had come full circle. Both of my sons were happy, successful young men….proof that I had made the right decision 12 years ago. They were my first and most meaningful dream, which has been fulfilled. Now, it was time to return to my other dreams and finally make them real.

So the miraculous journey has begun, and oh what a difference it has already made in my life.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  - Anais Nin