Embrace Your Heroine...

Do you ever feel as if life's objective is to knock you to the ground and keep you there?
 
So often I hear people around me feeling like they can't catch a break. The year they lose their job is the year their dog dies, their boyfriend leaves, their engine blows, the tree falls on their house.... you get the picture.
 
Life can be hard and sometimes it is hard day after day after day. Snowmageddon is no match for this particular season. And so this is when I believe the movie that is your life develops into the powerful story you'll tell for decades. This is where your inner heroine is born.

Many of us enjoy watching movies or reading stories of other successful women. Women who persevered through incredible hardships and made it to the top. We hear the stories of women like J.K. Rowling, Oprah Winfrey, and Kelly Clarkson and we often think, "She is so lucky." "Oh, what I would give to be her."  Well guess what, you are her! J.K. Rowling was a single mother on the verge of homelessness. "Harry Potter" was turned down by several publishers before it became successful. Oprah Winfrey was demoted from an anchor position and told she would not be successful. Kelly Clarkson's dad left her when she was a child and she grew up in poverty. And right now you are going through the difficult chapters of your story. The chapters that people will read or watch with jaws dropped thinking, "how did she do it?" And they will find inspiration as they see you become the heroine who, against all odds, wins in the end!
 
So while these chapters are difficult and your story feels as though it will end in tragedy, remember that a heroine is courageous because she does not give up when times are tough.

​She perseveres and fights until she wins.