Oh the places I have been...
There was a time I knew I wouldn’t be around to celebrate another birthday. A time where raw emotional pain determined how my day would go. A time where getting through it wasn’t day by day, yet minute by minute. A time when I valued darkness and being alone more than I valued the very breath that kept me on this earth. A time where I literally made a choice between life or death. Since that time I’ve made some major changes. Not the first time I’d seen a significant change in my life, but I’ve moved mountains in the progress I’ve made. Does depression still peek its head through? Absolutely. The difference now is that I know my worth and will never give it, or anyone else for that matter, that kind of power over me (thanks to a great friend for offering up that advice that has literally saved my life...more than once). It was through my journey through those years of dark days that I found out who I was, and more importantly who I didn’t want to be anymore. While I’ve always b