Beginning again mid-life can feel overwhelming, sometimes demeaning.  It's more difficult than even I want to admit.  Beginnings are for the young.  Starting from scratch...everything and nothing to lose.  Where to go from here?

The good news, we, as seasoned adults, have a myriad of experience to back us up.  We are not truly starting from scratch.  Every second of every previous day has brought us to this point in life.  I am more than a work in progress.  I'm a work in progress with a history of experience.  I am full. Complete in today, and working toward a broader tomorrow.  Experience has taught me I am more than a sum of my parts.  I have already been mother, teacher, therapist, leader and learner.  I've been, and am, all of this, and more.  I am full, and I can become more.  Realizing this has given me the hope I need to begin to stretch again.  I'm testing the boundaries of my personal envelope.  I am only defined by what I choose to do in the here-and-now. Yesterday was a dream, tomorrow a hope.  I only have today, this moment in time.  What I choose today will pave the path to tomorrow...tomorrows hopes become yesterday's dreams...I am whole.  I am complete. I am enough.

I am free