What’s On The Other Side Of Illness?

What’s On The Other Side Of Illness?

In 2010, I overcame my 15 year chronic illness. The next year, I moved to San Francisco and lived in California for 5 years.

This pic was of me on New Year’s, less than 5 years after overcoming my chronic illness. This was me celebrating in Hollywood. I had moved to Hollywood three months earlier when this pic was taken. I was so happy to be well and to be living my dreams.

The old me would never have imagined moving across country. Or being so healthy or so joyful.

After I overcame my illness, I focused on doing everything that brought me joy. For so long my days were focused on survival, getting through the day, trying to be well.

Now, I had a chance to reinvent myself. To follow my passions again. With my illness, I had given up on my acting career, but there I was in Hollywood auditioning, modeling, doing standup, and doing simple things many take for granted such as going to a restaurant or bar.

Most people in LA drove. I walked around Hollywood and people recognized me, waved, and smiled.

People in my neighborhood knew me. In LA!

One little boy in my neighborhood had a crush on me.

People in LA called me effervescent.

In San Francisco, people thought I was a California girl instead of an East coast girl.

In SF, I spent my weekends in Golden Gate park, brunching, and relaxing in the Botanical Gardens. It didn’t matter if I was alone doing this activities or with a friend; I didn’t wait to be invited to go out and do what I wanted to do. I knew there the possibility of joy in each moment.

It was clear what was on the other side of illness. It was joy.

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