Years ago I endured a sudden, traumatic divorce and barely missed a complete emotional breakdown. I had months of out-patient counseling until I finally got my feet under me again. It was an amazing experience — like finally finding the instruction manual for LIFE. Dah, why isn't this stuff taught in high school? That's why I hope to get all the great coping skills and techniques I learned during that time put into an ebook some day to help others find the peace and happiness they want and deserve. My qualifications for such a book come from the School of Hard Knocks.
After wrapping my mind around a new way of thinking, reacting, and behaving, I discovered that I liked that sense of control and power over myself so I continued to read, research, and investigate emotions, relationships, and spirituality. I found websites and subscribed to numerous newsletters to add to or reinforce what I'd previously learned. Ironically, the more I read, the more I recognized the same concepts over and over — just in different words.
Then while becoming a breast cancer survivor, I really needed to touch base again with those coping techniques — OFTEN. My road was pretty rocky and steep for awhile, so I started this blog as a journal to myself. I could paraphrase, combine, delete, and rearrange what I read from lots of various sources with what I thought I already knew. It was my how-to journal on getting some hints and insights into the peace, happiness, and wisdom I'd lost hold of temporarily.
Life has continued to throw me off balance. After 20 years with my best friend & soul mate, I am now alone. He wasn't perfect by any measure — & in fact was quite irritating & annoying at times. But I loved his weaknesses & faults, as he did mine, so we supported each other in the best ways possible. But — he died October 2015 after declining health & vigor, so I've reactivated this blog to record & make available to others the wisdom I've continued to collect from quotes that say things much more eloquently & succinctly than I can. I try to continually be grateful for the decades of joy, peace, & contentment I had, realizing many people never find or have that long in the kind of relationship everyone wants. I'm learning how to pick myself up & create another chapter in my life.
