Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2016 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 64

TRANSFORMING Relationship Your The Power of Living Authentically BY STACEY MARTINO O ur journey is very purposeful. From birth on, we are always learning the lessons. The universe is always guiding us, giving us opportunities to grow and teaching us everything we will need to one day live out our purpose, and heed our calling. All the pain, the challenges, the breakdowns… they were all to teach us our life lessons and prepare us to be ready for the purpose and calling we are here to live. It would be helpful if any of us knew that (or better yet, believed it) during our youth. But we don’t. We just see our problems as “problems” and our challenges as things we wish would go away. It’s not until we are older, wiser and awakened do we finally come to the universal truth that everything in life is happening FOR you, not TO you. Every problem is bringing you the 64 www.AspireMAG.net | October / November 2016