Inspirational Blog

For years, Maria believed that staying quiet was the only way to keep the peace. Behind closed doors, she endured words and actions that slowly made her feel smaller and less worthy. She began to believe the things she was told—that she could not make it on her own, and would be a failure. Then one day, Maria looked in the mirror and realized she was tired of being afraid. She quietly reached out to someone she trusted and finally told the truth about what was happening. That

Laura had owned a small retail business for twenty years when the recession wiped out her business. She spent months sending out resumes to a marketplace that had no room for an older entrepreneur. The rejections were piling up and eventually got to her. She would lay in bed night after night, with her doodle Miley at her side, and look up at the ceiling fan as it slowly turned, and say to herself, "Who am I, what is my purpose?" She was losing hope. Then one day she walked