By Barrie Davenport

“Looking back, we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.”~Dan Millman

I recently had a reader write to me that she often didn’t try things because she feared something bad would happen. Though she didn’t say this, I suspect she’s had some bad things happen in her life. By the time you reach your 40’s and 50’s, most of us have had several bad things happen.

Sometimes children and young people have really bad things happen in their young lives. They lose a parent. They are abused. They get very sick. They have a disability. When something really bad happens at a young age or when you have a series of difficult events, you start to believe you’ve been chosen as the... More...