14 Mar I Walked on fire

I walked on fire

6 years ago today I walked on fire. Yes, you read that right, I literally walked on burning hot coals for 10 feet.
It all started because I was in a horrible place in my life, in a verbally abusive marriage and having no self-esteem at all.

I watched Oprah every day while the kids napped and I wanted to be like her. She overcame so much, she was fearless. So whatever she did I wanted to do, when she did a marathon I did one, when she started a gratitude journey I did, when she started meditating I started. I wanted to become fearless like her.

But the top of the cake was when she walked on fire with Tony Robbins. I wanted to do that. No, I needed to do that. But at that time I was stuck, so I put it on my vision board and every day for 7 years I would look at it, saying one day.
When I finally found the courage to leave my marriage I couldn’t justify spending that kind of money now as a single mom and honestly, I didn’t have it even if I wanted to.

One day while I was talking to a client about my vision board, she said she had done it and how it was life-changing. Now I was more determined than ever to find a way. Well…I didn’t have to wait long because the following week she called and blessed me with a ticket! 7 years later, holding on to this dream, all the faith I had and here I was being given this ticket! But God!

This was huge for me not only because of my faith in my vision board but now I was ready. I was divorced, I had my own home, I had started a business, and I was taking care of my girls.
I was strong now and this was the icing on the cake.
If I could walk through fire then I could walk on it!

And yes, it was life-changing. I did not doubt that I could do it, I knew I could do it. All that I went through in my life gave me the strength to do this. This was the pinnacle of survivorship. If I could do this I could do anything!

So today my friends, my message here is that you too can do anything. Use your trials and hardships as your springboard to overcome anything life has to throw at you. Set your goals and dreams high, and don’t worry about how you will get there, just believe that it will happen, and trust me you will. If you have walked through fire, you can walk on that shit too!

“Be the change you want to see”
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