If I wasn’t so [insert your self-limiting belief], I’d have done [insert your unrealized potential]. We've all had this thought.

If you’re like me, you did the work to overcome trauma or wounds of the past. You carried on with life, did all the “right” things. Then you came to realize that your after-life has been guided all along by a set of old safety guardrails. Eventually you discover those guardrails don't make sense now and in fact they are keeping from your life potential.

After a period of sustained domestic violence perpetrated onto me, I thought that because it was in the past, I was good. In reality I was drifting aimlessly into relationships and jobs that kept me in a seemingly safe cocoon. I came to learn that guardrails are created as coping mechanisms and that they can be maintained or depowered as we grow. It is our choice to decide what to keep, alter, or discard altogether.