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"Lift the veil that obscures the heart and there you will find what you are looking for." - Kabir For the last several weeks I've been dealing with the grief of my vision board and everything it symbolized. For me it was grieving the loss of a life I'll never get to experience; a life that validated and rewarded all of the trials, birthing pains, and rebirths I experienced within this lifetime. It validated the decision to keep trying because there was sunshine on the other side of depression and suicide. It was the manifestation of self-love that I had constructed that identified and honored the coping mechanisms and survival tools I created as a result of a lifetime of rejection, abandonment, and feeling unworthy. When I discarded my vision board I severed the delicate bungee cord that allowed me to stare into the abyss and be roped back into the realm of the living. I spent the next week in a virtual free fall and returning to old fears and anxieties: that nothing ...

"Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil." - Loreena McKennitt It was Saturday afternoon during our 30 minute lunch break and I only had a few minutes left to call my group leader James that I wouldn't be able to come in on Monday evening. Volunteering or "assisting" as they like to call it, for the Landmark Power to Create course was not my idea. But Jules suggested this would be the best way to attend and listen in on the course without paying for the registration fee. At this point in time I was driving for Lyft and freelancing on the side and struggling mightily to keep up with my bills. So the reasoning made sense to me. What I hadn't anticipated was that assisting would mean arriving two hours before the course began at 9am to help set up and also staying behind an hour past 11pm to help clean up and prepare for the next day. My back was killing me and I was physically exhausted. The last thing I wanted to do after working 16...