Life-Changing Event

"I absolutely encountered struggles on my way toward manifesting my purpose. Even in the midst of being at a very high level of feeling like, on the outside anyway, people would have said, wow, she is really living her purpose, I definitely had a period of time where I got lost and felt really out of control, not happy, not useful, and turned to addictions. I had to actually go through treatment during that time and come back on track. I say it out loud because so many people who are really pursuing their purpose have a secret life where they're really not pursuing it, and it just means that some of the conditions that one must have in place to stay balanced and flexible while living a purpose were lacking. They were missing, or they wore away over time. Sometimes we can work so hard that we just forget about taking care of ourselves, or we have so many plates spinning that it kind of has to come out sideways somewhere. It reminded me, even in the midst of this beautiful career moment, that number one, anyone can get lost, and number two, you've got to spend extra energy to keep all of your support structures in place, or you can very easily get lost."