What if the very thing you are stressing over this very minute was part of a path to profound freedom and joy?
Friends, I'm profoundly humbled and bubbling with excitement to share my story of discovering more joy and freedom in my forthcoming book, Radioactive Painting, which will be available to order on February 25th.
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To my complete awe, this is precisely seven years from my diagnosis with Thyroid Cancer. How does such a full circle moment happen?
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Mark Nepo says, "Whatever opens us is never as important as what it opens."
For me my wake up call to more love, compassion, freedom and joy was heard with Thyroid Cancer. For you it might be a lost job, a lost relationship, losing a loved one, or something else. The truth is every moment of every moment there is a force calling us to awaken to love. And whatever the reason, big or small, that we finally do wake up--is beautiful and to be celebrated.
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I have poured my heart into this story. I have attempted to convey the beautiful messages that arrived as I faced my fears with a brush in hand. I'm grateful to Shanti Arts publishing this work, believing in my story, and putting together a beautiful book (It's in full color people!). Radioactive Painting includes my story, my prayers, my paintings, and ultimately it is written as a prayer for each of us.
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In an interview with an author, Oprah Winfrey remarked, "writers write the books they need to read." This is 100% true for me. I have not mastered all the lessons of this book. I'm living into them. I wrote this book for myself as much as I wrote it for you. I wanted to remember the lessons. Life is lived in a spiral. We revisit the same themes again and again. Sometimes from a higher place, and if we are real, sometimes from a lower place. I get that. And I offer this story anyway, my imperfect, vulnerable aspirational offering to you.
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It is my fervent hope and prayer that it brings a spark of hope, joy and possibility to anyone who reads it.
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