What is my Story and What does that have to do with my online business?

I’m gonna get real vulnerable with you here for a minute.

I have always done what I was “supposed” to do, or rather, what other people expected of me. Find a nice boy. Get married. Settle down. Have kids. Sacrifice yourself for the needs of others. I followed the expectations of others. I followed those expectations right through a toxic marriage, a toxic relationship with myself and anyone who came near me. I was miserable. I battled post partum depression, struggled with co-dependency formed from childhood trauma. I went to a very dark place. Because I wasn’t following my truest, most authentic, self.

Truth be told, I’m pretty much like anyone you may meet. We all face issues. We all face darkness. Eventually, I faced my rock bottom. But, I was lucky. On the grand scale of rock bottoms… mine was not as bad as it could have been. Though, it did come close.

My rock bottom was when I was sitting on the side of my bathtub, after having bawled my eyes out. My marriage was in the shitter, my then husbands wedding ring abandoned on the bathroom counter. I eyed the space behind my shampoo bottle where I had hidden a kitchen knife. It was just sitting there waiting for me, for the right moment to just be done with the pain and heartbreak I constantly found myself in…

And then… in walked my 5 year old son. Asking for some water, and wanting to know why I was just sitting here.