it's not what I thought..

I was married, had a house, car, a career, a beautiful baby but I wasn't happy, something was felt to be missing.. I was grateful but there was an inexplainable, deep feeling of dissatisfaction. From a young age, I knew there had to be more than paying the bills and waiting to retire to live a fulfilled life.

My husband left when my daughter was 9 months old, I don't blame him (we are friends now), we weren't happy together and when I divorced, I found a small cottage, I quit my 'career" job and my life cleared an enormous space "to be" to decide what made me truly happy.

Months after this clearing, a profound awakening happened and nothing in the human experience has ever been the same again - some similarities to Eckhart Tolle, (whose book - The Power of Now, was responsible for this knowing). I don't give this experience much thought today but I know it serves a purpose to share for others who have a sense there is MORE...