Lately, I have been reflecting on how many times life has asked me to let go of who I thought I was.
Not all at once.
In layers.
Sometimes it arrived through loss. Sometimes through endings. Sometimes through the quiet realization that something I had outgrown could no longer carry me forward.
Looking back, I can see how often I wanted certainty.
I wanted to know where I was going.
I wanted reassurance that if I took the next step, everything would work out.
Life rarely offered that.
Instead, it offered invitations.
Invitations to trust what I could not yet see.
Invitations to listen more deeply.
Invitations to release old stories and discover what remained when they fell away.
Many years ago, I found myself in one of those seasons.
From the outside, parts of my life looked intact.
Inside, something was shifting.
The truths I had built my life around were changing. The ways I understood myself were changing. The path ahead was no longer obvious.
I remember how lonely that felt at times.
Not because I was alone.
Because I struggled to find language for what was happening.
I knew I was changing.
I knew I could not return to who I had been.
I knew something was asking to be born.
I simply did not know how to describe it.
Over time, words began to come.
Some arrived in journals.
Some arrived during long walks.
Some arrived in conversations with spirit, with the earth, and with the deeper wisdom that seems to find us when we finally become quiet enough to listen.
I did not realize then that I was writing a book.
I was simply trying to tell the truth.
One page at a time.
One realization at a time.
One honest conversation with myself at a time.
That journey eventually became Lost In The Truth.
Holding the finished book in my hands recently felt surprisingly emotional.
Not because it marked an ending.
Because it reminded me of all the versions of myself who walked these pages before me.
The woman who was searching.
The woman who was grieving.
The woman who was awakening.
The woman who kept taking the next step even when she could not see the whole path.
This book belongs to all of them.
And perhaps it belongs to anyone who finds themselves standing in a similar place.
Anyone whose life is changing.
Anyone who feels called toward something new.
Anyone learning to trust themselves in the space between what was and what is becoming.
Today, I am grateful to share it with you.
Lost In The Truth: When the Life You Knew No Longer Fits is now available.
Find the book HERE
Thank you for walking this path with me.
With love and blessings,
Susan