Why Her Story and Why now?

 I have spent a large portion of my life being a people pleaser.. I don't know if that is my curse or a blessing...

I have never really ever given myself the opportunity to really discover who I am or what I want or what I love to do.. I have always hidden behind others and serving and doing what they wanted to do..

Always feeling frustrated along the way but never really understanding those feelings.

In a couple of weeks I am turning 51! FIFTY ONE! I feel at times like I am still 20 and when I get to play and do what I love I honestly feel like a child again. It's amazing!

When I was 46 I was at a seminar and we were told to make a vision board.... A WHAT?

I did want to find a bigger home for me and the kids, as well as be able to possibly have the opportunity to have a studio in my home. So I put that on my board.

I pasted about 10 or so other things on the board but none of them were anything I truly wanted. I didn't know what I wanted. It makes me cry to realize that here I am at 50 and I am just learning to discover what I want and like.

I have spent the last 31 years being a mom and in relationships where I always just did what the other person wanted.

I never made myself matter. I was a martyr of sorts. Thinking I was the most amazing person because I was allowing everyone else to decide for me what to do.

For the last 4 years I have been on a soul journey of self discovery and taking more time to focus on me. I get lost at times still but it feels good to finally start to focus more on me and finding out who I am.

I get so excited on this journey about new books and podcasts and lessons that I often excitedly send them to everyone I can.. All the kids and my friends and my fiancee. I want them to experience this new wealth of knowledge and I want my kids to avoid the confusion and suffering I spent so many years in.

This is kind of where Her Story comes in.

You see I used to think I was so alone in this world and going through life events and even the every day. But I now know there are so many other women out there like me.

I know younger women that are on the same path as I was and I so long to tell them there is so much more.. to remember themselves in the journey.. don't make the same mistakes I have.

Her Story is a celebration of everything that we have been through and still have to go through. It is a pause along the way to realize that we matter!

The world seems to forget about us women as we get older.. That is a huge HUGE mistake. Because we are honestly only just beginning.

We are just starting to come into our own. There is so much more beauty in our older selves because of everything we have been through and the lessons we have learned along the way.

It is time to celebrate that with your own story. I want to tell that story in photos. I want to take the most beautiful photo you have ever seen of yourself.

Life is not forever and even though I know you are going to say ... I just want to lose weight, we will always find something to fault in ourselves. Let me capture you just as you are now. Let you see yourself as I see you and the world sees you. With a non critical eye.

This is for you. This is for your children. This is for your spouse. This is a legacy. This is YOUR story

Love Sheila