There will be days of disappointment. I can promise you that, unfortunately. It is part of life. We don’t always get what we want, as the song says. When we don’t, what happens? What do we do, then? Do we wallow in misery, or do we make the choice, to brush ourselves off, pick ourselves up and make the choice to be happy and grateful?

When our world crashes.Fear.  We have all experienced it, that feeling of pain and overwhelm when it feels like our world has come down around us.   I remember the feeling when I got a letter from the taxation center.  I was in trouble for not reporting babysitting money. Babysitting money?  We have to claim that? I was young. I had no idea.  It was like a dark cloud fell down from the sky and engulfed me.  You know the musical score in horror movies?  That was playing in the

As a child, my home was filled with poverty and abuse. While I understood now that both of my parents had a mental illness, at the time it was devastating. I initially had good self-esteem as a young child, but eventually after hearing negative things over and over, and being physically and emotionally abused, my positive self-esteem was destroyed. I didn’t think I had anything to offer the world. However, I wanted to work with children and teenagers who struggled through