Thank you for inviting me to share about courage and resilience, TEDxTraverseCity. I’m honored that I had the opportunity to be a part of TEDx TC’s pitch night. It certainly expanded my authenticity and vulnerability limits as I owned my story publicly. And it gave me the opportunity to claim that we can rise up in the face of adversity. This story of mine has been be restored and restoried. And I have found, in both my research and in my life experience, that there is light waiting for us and we take steps forward onto a new path. There is beauty to be bourne from the ashes of trauma. And there is life. Life available to us now.

So much love and so much gratitude fills me to the overflowing. Today my story still faces difficult obstacles, yet it will not be defined by the things that impact it. It will be defined by me. Defined by joy, love, gratitude, peace, overflow, goodness, truth, strength, friendship, community, courage, connection and abundance. ❤️

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