TUITION GIFT WINNERS:
(please email kallie@bravegirlsclub.com to claim your prize!)
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Thank you to everyone who participated! You’re all so wonderful and lovely and important to us. Thank you for spending some of your precious time here….

Soul Restoration 2 tuition will be gifted to:

Tina V.
Allyson Meyer
Lynn Nelson-Berg
Becky J.
Melissa Bailes
Cia Tate

Daleen de Castro
Lori Rydalch
Kelly Johnson Peck
Debbie Hutchinson Helton
Bethany Mills
Stacey Stills Libbert
Renee Farrugia

{THESE LAST FEW DIDN’T HAVE LAST NAMES, so I included comments so you’ll know who you are…) :)

Vicky (Giving Makes me Happy)

Laci (LIFE. Life makes me SO happy. Every single bit of it. And oh how I need SR2! Loving the syncronicity of it all. ♥ ♥ (Also, a second best choice would have to be hands down Patrice’s HUGS!))

Janette (Lying in bed on a Sunday morning reading a good book.)

Marlo (Hugging my girls makes me happy. It is the thing I look forward to most when they wake up, as they come up and hug me before they do anything, and then again at night, its the last thing we do before we go to bed.)

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Last year about this time I was pregnant….my third pregnancy in three years.  I was tired and worn out and….I think mostly I was tired of being everything to everyone, which (I thought) left nothing for me.  I felt gone from myself….far away from the girl I used to be…the girl with dreams and goals and big ideas and plans to make them happen.  At some point….can’t be sure when….I went from being all me to being wife, mom, teacher, daughter, sister and everything else to everyone else.  I felt empty and lost and confused and a little bewildered about where I’d gone.  I felt like I’d let go of everything that had once been so important to me, and gave myself away.  Sometimes I could catch a little glimpse of who I once was, and that girl felt like a stranger.  I longed to find her again….I longed to dream again and think big ideas, and BELIEVE in big ideas, but I didn’t know how to do it.

I asked myself….How do you go back to who you used to be?  Is it selfish to want to do that?  Beautiful things had happened in my life, and I felt ungrateful for my soul-deep longings for more.  But my heart just absolutely screamed for something else.  There HAD to be something more than being everything to everyone.  There had to be some left for me, and I wanted to find it.

Soul Restoration 2 came just in time for me…the first page they put up had a beautiful picture with the caption: “It is time to move forward.”

I wanted to move forward.

I wanted to be ME again.

I didn’t know if it would work, but I made a commitment to finish Soul Restoration 2.

It was hard work.  It took a lot of time, and a lot of energy.  Soul work is like that.  But it was important and exactly what I needed….

I identified EXACTLY what I wanted in life….not what other people want for me….not what I think I should want, but what I wanted.

The front of my journal cover says “live your life just like you and no one else” …. how free-ing!!!!

The very first assignment was to make the cover page, including this phrase: “this is the life I want to live”.  When I made this page, I didn’t have ANY idea what the life I REALLY want looked like.  I only knew that I longed for SOMETHING.  The life I had was great, so blessed, but I wanted to feel peaceful…I wanted to dream again….I wanted to live a life I had carefully designed instead of just going through the day and letting life happen however it happened….

My art journal from Soul Restoration 2 is something I treasure.  It is filled with my “working papers” ….where I worked out and figured out what my strengths are, what my weaknesses are, what I enjoy doing, what I don’t enjoy doing, people I want to be around, things I want to learn about, places I’d like to go…..

I realized that one of the things my soul was craving was music….I need more soul-stirring music in my life…I needed to listen to it and make it….

I made GOALS, and Melody taught me how easy it could be to make plans to achieve those goals….

Through the videos, Melody taught me to identify the things that had kept me from reaching my goals in the past….she called it my “Landmine Map”, and taught me to see those things happening in my life and get past them before they stopped me….

My Soul Restoration 2 book is so important to me.  I feel like a different person than I was a year ago.  I was hidden from myself for a while…I was confused about who I should be, and now I feel like I have truly been restored to who I always was.  It feels good to live this way…..

I want the same so much for each of you….I wish you could see yourself exactly the same way your best friend sees you….and treat yourself with the same dignity, respect and grace.

Soul Restoration 2 starts next Tuesday….and we want you to restore your soul with us….so we are giving away some tuitions….

I hope so much that you win, and if you don’t, I hope so much that you’ll look into signing up and find the girl you have always been again…..

Entering is super duper easy….just answer this question:

What is one thing that makes you happy?

We’re at Brave Girl Camp, so I asked some of the staff to answer this question for you…..here are their answers….

Terry said her pillow
Patrice said her yarn
Malary said food
Melody said her guitar
Sabrina said gesso
Hilarie said Christmas
Kathy said music
Mine is the smell of clean laundry

You have all weekend long to answer….we’ll pick 11 Brave Girls to give the gift of Soul Restoration 2 tuition to on Monday.

Hope you know how very loved you are…..

xoxo