To Love the skin you are in is not just the superficial appearance that everyone sees when they look at you, but it is actually truly loving all of who you are including your mistakes and knowing that you have the potential to be anything you want to be.

After 39 years and counting I have gone back and forth with periods in my life when I have thought to myself " wow you are really living your authentic life....you have actually made it to where you have been striving to be all along." Somehow this only lasts for a short undescribable amount of time and then the realization hits that no you aren't quite there yet.

I am a true believer that you are never too old to learn new tricks or for that matter start over....which I have done several times. I myself went back to school 2.5 years ago and am now slowly pushing forward with my own skin care therapy business. It has been a long 2.5 years with lots of sacrifice...not just on my end, but also on my families end as well. If it weren't for my family I would not be able to be self employed.... which not only enables me to take care of our 12 year old child, but enables me to work in a field that I truly enjoy.

Helping others attain self esteem and to feel beautiful makes me feel wonderful, but I want and need to take this to the next level. I am in a sole practice but am working towards expansion. I have many ideas and goals that I have carefully thought out and are currently stated in my newly revised business plan.

I guess that real beauty comes from within....when we as individuals can look deep inside our selves for that drive and push to live what should be our authentic life. It can be scarry especially if you have been partially down that path before and have failed miserably. I have known that kind of failure in my life. I am at a turning point where I want to push forward, but just don't want to self sabatoge my efforts. It is very easy to complain about things that have not gone well or turned out to be failures, but very hard to take a close look at oneself to see the flaws and to work on correcting them.

This is where I am in my life...I am trying to find the beauty that begins within.