ps.. about.com my god so many people are also helping me and helped me to end here on my new start

This is a great question!

I think the best thing I have done for myself and the thing that has created the most change in my life (which was also the beginning of the opening of the doors of truth as to who I am) was my decision to NOT return to work outside the home after my oldest son passed away.

My 17 year old son, Jeffrey passed on April 23, 2000 which was Easter that year. I was a stay-at-home mom for most of those 17 years working part time jobs here and there, however in 2000 I was working full time as a Customer Service Warranty Rep for a local home builder.

As much as I liked contributing to the world via the workforce it was becoming more and more evident that my boys (Jeffrey, Justin and Joshua) needed me there when they got home from school. I struggled with my own need to 'be more' than a stay-at-home mom and their need to have me there.

After Jeffrey died a lot of people said the best thing I could do/what I NEEDED to do/what I SHOULD do was go right back to work. After a month of indecision and with full knowledge that it would be financially difficult to do so I decided to let my full time job go.

I started exploring the world of digital art and expressing my feelings through digital paintings. I talk about this in more detail on my web site lisasbotanicals.com and also have an archive of my digital paintings at mysticalmodality.com.

It was through this exploration, the following of my passion to be creative, the letting go of what others thought best for me, the synchronicity of events that followed that decision to stay at home with my boys that I now find myself doing something that I love and in the process am creating a wonderful life for myself.

I think the most interesting thing about the 10 years since I made the decision that sent my life in a new direction is that I did it without the knowledge of the Laws of Attraction. It is only in the past few years that I've been exploring conscious creation. I am excited to see what I can create for myself now that I am understanding more and more about the processes of passion, purpose and prosperity.

Have a wonderful, enlightened day!
Lisa

Karen,
That's an amazing story of incredible strength! Thanks for sharing and for having the courage to change what seems to be the impossible!
Blessings,
Joy


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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

~Thomas Edison

congratulations. I am proud of you. you don't need a man to be celebrated.

Beverley

to get a good education, build a strong marriage, and raised three children.

Fantastic!!

The best thing I ever did for myself was to get away from an abusive relationship. It took 15 years to get the strength to do it. I was with him from 17 to just about 32, had 3 children and was living in hell. Nothing changed on his part so I had to be the stronger one and do what I had to get away. I went to school and got my associates when my first child was a baby, then got my Bachelor's degree when I was nine months pregnant with my second. Nothing kept me from going to school. Not black eyes, bruises, and no car, nothing. I had to prove not only to him but to myself he wasn't going to stop me. So at 27 I had a 9 year old, a 2 year old and a newborn. I stayed for way too long. I finally got the strength on December 1, 2001. All I said to him was GET OUT and I never looked back. I am an independent, determined, beautiful woman that can do anything I put my mind to.

Keep up the good work. I too went back to school later in life. And it did help my situation at the time. For I was able to earn a better income.
And although getting educated traditionally has its value. As I get on in life I realize being educated does not define who we are. For truly we never stop learning. Life is one big lesson.


I tell all I am a perpetual student.


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Don't Take One Day at a Time.
Take One Second at a Time.