So yeah, lots of fear came up with past week. I guess I should be grateful or else I’d have nothing to blog about. *eyes rolling*
No seriously. I am grateful…and sarcastically bitter all at the same time. Hey, my 16 year-old-daughter moved out yesterday to go live with her father full-time. I have every right to be bitter.
Wait a minute. Why am I explaining {read: trying to justify} myself to you?
Good question. I don’t know, but how about I stop now?
Okay.
Are you lost yet? I am just a little bit. But, that’s okay. This is what it’s been like in my head with all this stuff going on in my life.
It’s easy to freak out in the face of such terrifying events like letting go of parenting full-time. But, here’s the thing:
I’ve asked for and received some amazing acts of support, kindness, and love.
And you know what, isn’t this what life and love are really all about?
I haven’t tried to hide my personal crisis. Nope. Instead I’ve shared it and was able to receive the strength from others that I couldn’t muster for myself. I didn’t try to pretend I had it all together. Instead I asked my sister, my dad, and my mom just to hold me while I cried.
And you know what?
They did. They held me and let me cry. What a gift! I didn’t have this kind of support earlier in my life. So when these people held me, they not only held the mother that’s going through hell with her daughter. They held the frightened child. They held the angry teen. They held the lost twenty-something. They held me.
And that, my friend, is beautiful.
So when it comes to sharing your life, your problems, and your fears with your peeps…I encourage you to open up, talk, and ask for what you need. You just might find your colleagues, clients, friends, and families coming together to support and love you just like they all did for me.
To all of you who have reached out to me through this…thank you.
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If you were to look at Coach Cassandra Rae's past on paper you would think that she'd be living in the projects and on welfare. In fact, there were many a peeps who told her just that. You see, her life has taken her through domestic violence, homelessness, the welfare system, teenage pregnancy, miscarriage, divorce, drugs, and abortion. And yet, she has risen above it all. As a single mother, she put herself through Hartnell College and the University of California, Berkeley. She has learned how to turn all of her life's challenges into stepping stones. Today she thrives with her husband and daughter in Sunnyvale, California where she runs her own Life Coaching Practice. She is one of the most unexpected and successful FEMpreneurs on the planet. If she can do it, so can you!
