Apr/May 2025 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 42

To choose more loving thoughts, actions beliefs, perspectives, and more loving ways of responding to life’ s triggers, challenges, delays, and detours. This is when you begin to unlock possibilities and reclaim true yourself – simply by the intention and small actions to do so.

There comes a point in life when you realize that along with being a sacred part of everyone else’ s story, you are here to create your own.

You’ re here to discover higher versions of yourself that are possible when you begin living toward and choosing to embody those versions of yourself each day.

It’ s eye-opening when you realize who you are beyond who you’ ve been to others since birth.

In my mid-twenties, Life called me to move away from my family. And, although feeling uncertain at first to be away from everything familiar to me, it was both enlightening and a blessing. Not because of any lack of love toward my family, but because life gave me the opportunity to discover who I was and who God / Source continually calls me to be, beyond the story of‘ me’ I had been, and am, to others.

There’ s something about being a part of everyone else’ s story that can lead you to temporarily lose sight of your power to create your own.

You can feel that you have lost yourself, what you are passionate about and what you enjoy doing. You can wonder your purpose, who you are outside of your role as mom, caregiver, or the roles you play in your work

- A Course in Miracles { Made Easy }