When Giving Up Really Isn’t: Taking a Step Back
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.” ~Unknown
A year ago this week I was lying on a pile of laundry on my bathroom floor, sobbing, blowing my nose into a dirty t-shirt. I was in the last stages of packing up my apartment, selling my furniture, putting a few belongings into storage, and at 34 I was moving home to my parents’ house.
It was not a good month, in a less-than-stellar year.
It was a year filled with difficult circumstances. Two years earlier I’d given up a …








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