The Book

What's the story?

       I've been to that fully frazzled, broken and desperate place, and I am not ashamed to say it. I was carrying all the things. I was prioritizing everyone else first. I felt guilty spending any time or money on myself, and I was growing increasingly resentful of the very things I had been blessed with. I didn't know who I was when I took off my roles, I didn't remember what I truly enjoyed, and I was so lost as to how to begin correcting any of these problems. It was somewhere between Halloween and Thanksgiving in 2018 that all the things that I had been balancing and all the roles I had been playing started to crumble and crash down around me, as if in slow motion, until the end of 2018. I don't think I have ever been so eager or more frazzled than I was ringing in 2019.     

       After the emotionally tumultuous end of 2018, I started January of 2019 by intentionally setting out on a quest to focus on myself with no guilt. To prioritize my needs, care, love, and healing into every single day. To discover the things that light my soul on fire. I wasn't even looking for a divinely unique to me purpose. I wasn't really even looking for a purpose to be honest. I was simply hoping to spark a little joy, a little excitement, and maybe even a little inspiration. I've been beyond frazzled, and this place here, Dazzling District, is the place I was called to create as a result of navigating my way from fully frazzled to dazzling and true to myself by spring of 2019.

In 2022 I heard the call for an assignment that scared me to my core but wasn’t leaving me alone either.

The call was to write a book...

       I've spent much of 2023 working on a book that details my story, my process and many of the lessons I learned on my quest to spark my dazzling, including my methods. The foundation of the book was inspired by a 9-part blog series that I wrote at the very beginning of this website, brand, and blog, in 2020. I may have been quiet here on the District Blog this past year and a half, but I have been working on the book as a priority in my writing since feeling called to begin it during 2022.  I recommend that you head over and start reading the blog series that inspired the book and begin implementing the methods and steps as you feel capable while you wait for The Book. My hope is not to add more things to your already busy schedule, but to encourage you to actually prioritize focusing on your care in the midst of the chaos, to encourage more joy throughout your days while you anticipate further news about my publishing journey.

Honest

Raw

Vulnerable

Powerful

Walking in Faith While Scared

       I never wanted to write a memoir. I've never truly desired a platform. I only ever hoped to one day be writing fiction books from a quiet cozy cabin by a lake in the woods. The thought of writing something so honest, raw, vulnerable, and powerful was paralyzing at first, but eventually I gave in and began walking in faith while scared. I submitted to the call to write a book sharing honest, raw, vulnerable, and powerful stories about how I had walked through scary, in faith, many times before and come out more dazzling each time. Over the last year, the vast majority of the first draft to that book poured out of me, onto the page, in blind obedience and faith. I now, look forward to sharing it.

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