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My Wild, Your Wild: Your One Life To Live Authentically

Do you find yourself asking these questions?

“Is this all there is to my life? Where did “I” go? Have I forgotten who I am?  Did I ever really know?”

This book is intended to empower and inspire you to answer these questions and to be sure you are living your one unique life as authentically as possible.  The freedom to create our own story is already yours.  It needs to be claimed.  This requires taking risks.  Others may not like it and will work to persuade you to just do what makes them feel better.  Our families, partners, friends, religions and communities prescribe what women are supposed to do.  Only it may not be true for us.   It may have never been us.

Whether you need to start the journey to authenticity or return to what you knew about yourself years ago, it is up to you, to us, to be sure our life is being lived as authentically as possible.

It’s a dichotomy that those who will benefit from our authentic living are the same ones who try to keep us untrue to ourselves because it is more comfortable for them.  We lose, our families lose, our world loses when we live only partially or when we are not faithful to ourselves.  If you sit quietly, be rigorously honest, you will hear it.  You will hear your inward voice leading you to be who you were always intended to be in the first place.

Excerpt from The Journey by Mary Oliver

“…But little by little, as you left their voices behind,

The stars began to burn, through the sheets of clouds,

And there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized as your own,

That kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world

Determined to do the only thing you could do – determined to save

The only life you could save.”