So Grateful

So, this past week has been filled with a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. My birthday and the day after left me feeling a bit 'blah", to tell the truth, and I was worried I was getting a case of the Birthday Blues. Luckily for me in the beginning of May I had signed up to do the Landmark Forum the weekend after my birthday. It was truly, aside from having my son, the most transformative experience I have ever had. I was a bit skeptical going into it, because when you Google the Landmark Forum you get all this "cult" stuff about them. I can understand that though, I mean, Christianity, Islam, even Buddhism were all cults when they started out because their perspective was so radically different from what was being taught at the time. The thing is, one of the closest people in my life to me did the Forum in April and I saw with my own two eyes the positive change it had on her. I knew then I didn't really have anything to lose anyway; I'm way too level-headed to get sucked up into drinking Jim Jones' Kool-Aid. She assured me that it was nothing like that, and she too is one of the most practical and level-headed people I know. She had become so free from all the tension and negative intensity that had ruled her life for so long after the Forum. She seemed so much more peaceful and contented, still her, but like a Her 2.0 version of herself, lol. The changes in her were so pleasant and positive.

By the time I signed up, I was in desperate need of a pleasant and positive change.

It's not a very easy experience to describe, except to say that it transforms the way you look at yourself, your past, and your life. Indeed, life in general. I feel free in a way I haven't since childhood. I have been given the gift of a release from the burdens of the past to create my life and my future. What a gift. Happy Birthday to me!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Landmark Education, and David Ure, my Forum Leader this past weekend. They surpassed what I thought possible -- and now everything will surpass what I thought was possible. I am so grateful that I went. I know things will still pop up from time to time, and that life itself will present challenges that may still frighten me, but now I have powerful tools and a much, much cleaner canvas from which to create the life I choose to live. For that, I am so very grateful.