I was personally helped and encouraged by the “Rediscovering Yourself Now Program”  by Dr. Elizabeth Jennings.  I had wanted to tell my story for years and I had started to journal.  I accumulated stacks of journals filled with traumas, tragedies, truths and triumphs with thanksgiving.  I wanted my life to be a testament to help others, but I was stuck. 

I began an internal work program through “Rediscovering Yourself Now” which has helped me to look within myself and to reflect on opposing thoughts that consumed me.

Dr. Elizabeth posed several questions that really resonated with me.  Two of these questions were:

1. What lesson did you learn from your life experience?

2. What will you do differently moving forward in life?

Reflecting on these questions were instrumental to my ability to move forward.  Each question helped me to look at others differently.  More importantly, the questions helped me look at myself differently.  Thank you Dr. Elizabeth Jennings for helping me learn to live from the inside out. Thank you for helping me get started.  I am writing my book!

The “Speak Up” Course helped me to start to pause and think before I speak.  At work, my team leader who always gives me the blues requested a meeting with me and our boss.  She felt like I was putting her team down and accusing them of being the reason we are not meeting out goals.  I told them that we needed to look at processes and systems so we could meet our requirements and that we needed to look at doing some things differently since we were not meeting requirements for the last 3 years and that we are being audited this year so we needed to work together to achieve our goals.  I listened to her and then I told her that I wanted her to prosper and succeed in every aspect of her life.  She did not know what to say.  She requested another meeting with her entire team and my team so that both teams can talk face to face and address any issues.  I think both teams just want their voices to be heard.  I now just want us to move forward and work together for positive results. Thank you for all your help through your program. 

When I started Reclaim Her, I was a shell of a person. I had just lost my grandson in September and then in January I lost my only brother! I decided that I didn’t want to be sad anymore, so I joined her program where I learned to forgive myself. I learned that I was enough and that I was worthy of love and it wasn’t a curse to be the last person in my family to be alive. That was four months ago since then I started journaling. I registered and opened two businesses. I started carrying myself different and dressing differently and embracing the fact that I am enough and that I am the apple of god’s eyes and that I’m lovable. I’m open and learning to love myself now. I’m not finished, but I’m on my way. I’ve forgiven myself for the mistakes I made in my past and I’m looking forward to my future and my calling. I can’t wait to see what God has for me next. I am 55 and fabulous and I’m looking forward to serving God another 55 years if he allows me to, but this time standing tall and walking by faith and the knowledge that I am a woman of God and he does love me. I mean who but God to take someone who was severely depressed and walking with a cane and turn their life upside down having her ministering and dance and full of life that’s only God . Thank you Dr. Jennings for this opportunity to share this and I hope it helps someone thank you again for following your passion and God continues to bless you and everything that you do.

This program and community is powerful and needed. I know it has helped me to understand myself better and be open to getting the help I needed. I am also now pushing forward as a self-published author of adult stress relief and body-positive coloring books and biblical-inspired journals. I am also back in school finishing my BA in Sociology. Thank you for the part you played in my healing. I still use the tools provided in the program.