But a book I found at Chicago O’Hare’s airport changed everything. Because of that book, I began to see myself not as the victim of my life circumstances but as the powerful source of my own reality. I realized my life wasn’t happening to me … it was happening through me.
I began to examine what was happening in my life that I didn’t like and recognized there was an underlying belief, habit, or unconscious thought pattern that was keeping me stuck there. I learned how to change that. And when what I expected for myself changed, so did my reality.
If someone had told my anxious, lost 17-year-old self, that by my early 40s, I’d have a loving husband, three wonderful kids, four successful businesses, a lake house where I’d run my retreats, a meaningful career, the most amazing teachers and clients, a handful of magnificent horses AND a serene, happy mind, I would never have believed them.