40 Days of Soul Opening (Following Iyanla Vanzant's "One day my Soul just Opened up"

So I am trying something new... I am focusing on my growth and development through a series of self help books which I will use as my guide. Over the next month and a half I will be documenting my commentary and findings as well as inspiration from Iyanla Vanzant's "One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" It is my hope that the information that I read can be useful to not only me but to my readers as well. If you have read the book you are welcome to join me in commentary or send me information to highlight to my readers.

Commentary:

Approximately 7 years ago (right before my low) I was given this book "One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" from my Aunt Christina. Aunt Christina is my Dad's baby sister. She actually gave me this book about a year before he passed away while I was visiting her at her home in Virginia. It's funny how things change. At the time that she gave me the book, she probably needed it more than I. I know that she lost her job, and then I believe that she had a really hard time coping with the grief and loss of my Dad. I think everyone was suprised by his untimely passing.

I took the book at that time and I shelved it. I shelved it knowing that one day I would have the time and the right mental attitude to actually learn and grow from it. Growing up I was always intuitive but my greatest pitfalls was that I was often closed and I was stubborn. When I say closed I mean private, shielded and unable to open up and express myself to myself or anyone else. I have also been stubborn. Strong willed, yes but still stubborn. I expected everything to go as I planned when I planned and seldomly valued the opinions of others. I have managed to change some of these old views and characteristics but it was not without being stretched. My world was pulled from under me. My family, my, friends, my work, mylife was in shambles.

After years of humbling experiences, new people, places, friends, the birth of my children...I find myself a different individual. Someone who is capable of stretching and growing. So now its time to enter a new phase of growth and development. A phase that will allow me to open up and share my journey with you.

Someone once told me that "you may be the only bible that someone reads." If that is the case, then I am honored. Again as I move forward in my journey, I hope that you too can move beyond any adversity that stands before you. I pray that you can be touched and that your soul be open to the great things that are to come!

Let the Journey Begin!!!!

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