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BOOKS BY MICHELLE
7 Steps to Simply Flourish: Reclaim your joy. Transform your life.
Flourishing Begins With Dying In order for a plant to grow and flourish, it must first be small as a seed and humble in its death and burial.
March 21st 2022 – part of me died along with my sister. I had no idea on that day I would lose a part my heart. Before then, I was hopeful, I felt things, I believed in something and held on to something. But on that day, my world changed from color to black and white. My heart was shattered into a million pieces. I could not move and was numb with sadness, grief, hopelessness, despair and experienced a strong emotion of grief, loss and sadness that I have never felt before.
It was horrible. I was lost and fell into a deep, debilitating depression and literally could not get out of the bed.
Time, therapy, family, connection, trip and more time slowly begin to mend the part of my heart that was broken, but I know now that my heart will never beat the same without my sister.
My sister and I were extremely close. She was like my mother. She was a little mother to me and my other sister and she was only 49 and passed away from complications of an aggressive, rare form of cancer in either her ovaries or uterus. The doctors gave her more time and they were not even sure of the complexities of her condition so it was a bad surprise to everyone involved and it for lack of a better word sucked.
"As part of my healing, I learned that talking with more people, actually, most people, they were familiar with this club and now I understand some of the things they used to tell me."
I am part of a club that no one wants to be a part of, but one day we will always become part of this club of the loss and grief of someone that shatters your world.
As part of my healing, I learned that talking with more people, actually, most people, they were familiar with this club and now I understand some of the things they used to tell me. I really can feel what they felt and sometimes feel.
My heart breaks when I see someone crying on T.V from the unexpected loss of a loved on, because I know what they feel and I cried those very same tears of sadness, shock, loss and the bad surprise of losing a loved one.
Grief or loss of any kind, whether is the physical death of a loved one, the death of what you thought your life was going to be, a divorce, loss of a job, loss of a boyfriend, friend ..you get the point. Any kind of loss, can be the death of something and we must approach it like the loss or death of something and go through the stages of death before we are able to flourish.
Part of me died on March 21st and unbeknownst to me at that time, that was when I truly began to flourish.
So, if you have experienced a loss, now is your time to flourish. In order to flourish, you have to experience a loss.
This book 7 Steps to Simply Flourish is going to provide integrative and holistic tangible steps with daily intentions and action to help you continue to flourish and experience life better. When we think better, we act better and we live better. I say “we” because we are all connected and we are here for a purpose of helping and serving others and my purpose, passion and commitment is to help you live better.
Life is hard. Let’s face it…Living is hard and living well is practice, but we are on this planet to live well and flourish in ALL areas – mentally, spiritually, financially and physically. It is our God given right to flourish and live well.
So…plant your seed now and begin your journey to Reclaim your joy and transform your life as you step into 7 Steps to Simply Flourish.