HOW HGTV’S REHAB ADDICT WAS THE CATALYST TO MY DIVORCE

You know how sometimes that one things leads you take action in your life. It’s the catalyst to a big change.

Well 9 years ago I went to see my sister and fell in love with the show Rehab Addict. It was a single mom who rehabbed old homes.

When I left my sister’s house I knew what that show was for me. It was the catalyst to do the VERY thing I knew I needed to do but didn’t want to. I returned home knowing I neeeded to ask my husband to move out.

And I did.

And then my world just crumbled before my eyes. How could this possibly be the right choice? It isn’t supposed to be this way. I’m a Catholic school teacher. We don’t get divorced. And yet I knew with 100% certainty I was walking the path God was leading me down.

The next 18 months would be the most difficult of my life. It stripped me to my core. It made me look at myself and all my flaws. It showed me where my priorities were so wrong. It wrecked me a million times over.

But for the first time in years I was tuned into my own intuition. I was listening to the small still voice I had been ignoring for years.

The one that was telling me to get back to church. The one reminding me my finances weren’t as they should be.

Not in a million years could I have seen what was waiting for me on the other side of my pain.

But what I know, is when you learn to get quiet with yourself, you see where your life has so much room for growth and JOY.

And I bet you’ve forgotten how to listen to that one small voice too. This is what I love to coach women on. Finding that small voice inside of them that is keeping them from creating the life of their dreams.

Your dream life is waiting for you. And you don’t need a new job or better husband or different MIL to have it. You just need to know how to listen to that inner voice again.

Have you taken the time to get quiet to hear that small voice? Are you hearing it but ignoring it? I challenge you today to listen to that voice. It is full of wisdom. It will always lead you in the right direction.

xoxo,

Monica