Surviving the Storm of Change- The Maturity of Embracing Myself &Breaking the Cinderella Myths.

Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.- Iylana Vanzant

Ever since I was five years old, and read the story of Cinderella. I knew I wanted to be rescued by a prince who whisked me off and give me the title of wife. I kept that premise and notion as the dream I’d been chasing. A wife in waiting. At forty-eight I’m single, never been married, and reality has knocked me off my feet. To date, I’ve been in two serious long-term relationships. The first one I stayed for ten years. It began as a teenage love that grew into my adulthood. The turbulent relationship produce six beautiful children, major drama, trauma, and made me lose hope in the Cinderella theory of love. I canceled fairy tales in my mind, especially when I understood loving someone isn’t always enough.

I now had to embrace being a single mother and carry the side effects of life-changing right before my eyes. The wind blew out of challenges every time I turned around dealing with a son who had medical issues, raising six children while making a hell of a lot of mistakes. There in my thirties, it hit me with a shit storms and…