Welcome, and thanks for stopping by! I'm looking forward to sharing my journey with you, and I hope this is a place where you feel safe to share some of yours with me.  I'm Barb, and together I hope we can begin to heal, continue to grow, and learn to live happily ever after, after. I bet that most of us, if we're being honest, have had some sort of hurt, heartbreak, or trauma that left us feeling disillusioned, distraught, or just downright depressed.  We dream, we hope, we strive for what we want our lives to look like, and then something unexpected happens to derail all those hopes and dreams.  An illness, a diagnosis, a death of a loved one, a job loss, a breakup, a heartache, a dream unfulfilled, a trauma, an assault. You name it. The list can go on and on of all the things that life can throw at us. Unfortunately, life is not a fairytale, and there is no happily ever after. BUT, I have come to realize in my own journey, that after the loss of a 25 year marriage, children who have sustained life threatening illnesses, trauma, and depression, after heartaches and heartbreaks of loves lost, caring for aging parents, and starting over financially after being a stay at home mom for 18 years, and having to figure out how to navigate life on my own, that although I may not have gotten my happily ever after,  I can still live happily ever after, after. I am learning how to do that, and I'd love to share my journey with you and let you know how you can too. So, let's go! Let's both choose to be happy. We have but one earthly life. Let's live it happily ever after, after!