True Story…

I once had a boss look me in my eyes and tell me I would never be successful because I lacked motivation.

While in the pits of grief, after losing two people within months of each other, I had only been a licensed massage therapist in CT for a couple of weeks… MAYBE. Instead of offering a shred of compassion, they told me I would never be successful….

For years, I moved throughout the state from job to job, trying to find my place in the world, sometimes wondering if they were right…

Maybe I’m not good enough. Maybe I never will be. Maybe I should just give up and go back into the restaurant business. Maybe this isn’t what I was meant to be in this lifetime.

But maybe…. That person was just an asshole. Maybe that person was projecting their own insecurities onto me because I was an easy target, at the time.

Eight years later, a few bumps along the way, and probably a few more to come, I’ve never felt so sure of who I’m supposed to be.

More than a massage therapist. More than a reiki healer. More than a mom and a wife and a friend.

Someone who understands that without the dark, there is no light; who shows up authentically knowing who they are… who they TRULY are, is the most profound success there is to have.

I don’t make a million dollars.

I don’t have brand new, shiny things.

I don’t go on fancy trips. (Or any trips, lol)

But I have the wealth of passed down wisdom, as well as everything I’ve gained throughout my own healing.

There will always be people who are rooting for you to fail. And there will also always be people who will do anything to see you win.

But at the end of the day, the only opinion that matters is the one you have for yourself: screw everybody else! (And especially my old boss 😉)