This autobiography is intended to share, reveal and perhaps bring forth an understanding that you didn't know you were seeking. After a lifetime's journey to both understand and accept herself, the author has reached a point in her life where she now recognizes who she is and is comfortable sharing her truths, past hurts, disappointments and adversity in an effort to offer written compassion to another who may be early in the journey of self understanding and consequently…self acceptance.The author takes you on a transparent exploration of her life, bearing truths and realizations that have only recently culminated in self acceptance, self love and a release of much needed emotional blockage.Born with the intent to be given away, the author was briefly with her adopted family until her parents divorced months shy of her 13th birthday. Experiencing the loss of her oldest brother only a decade after, she decided to enlist in the US Army Reserves at the end of that year to get on with life, as it were. Who would have known the reunion with her Birth Mother and introduction to her two maternal siblings would take place only a year later! All of these challenges proved a lot to digest and emotionally traverse for sure! Growing up an Army brat and consequential Army Veteran herself, the author had to learn adaptability early as well as detachment, the integral focus of the book. These and other life experiences left the author feeling "less than", misunderstood, devalued and thus these ordeals greatly affected her mindset and (in)ability for true self acceptance.Having now come full circle, thanks to a book called, "The Highly Sensitive Person", by Elaine N. Aron, the author desires to offer compassion and healing energy to readers currently going through their own "uncertainty".A nurturing Empath, if the author can deter even just one person from years of feeling alienated, stuck and/or unable to articulate what they've yet to reconcile both mentally as well as spiritually, as the aforementioned book did for her, she will be grateful and know that her life's journey was not in vain.
