Collaborative Artwork with Xene Beautiful Joni April 2020 We often learn the most in moments of painful transition. Time coupled with hindsight bring the experiential perspective full circle into transformative life lessons. However, oftentimes we are so caught up in the story around the event, we sabotage ourselves from ever fully absorbing the teaching. Those lessons transform only when we see the hardship as a reason to be grateful, and not a necessary life narrative that retells a story of victimhood to everyone we meet. All too often we get stuck in a narrative of our own making, exhausting any audience willing to listen, we turn the story inward and let our minds fester in the anguish of the perceived misdeed. That is an energy created within that affects our future. But you might say "I'm a really nice person, I am always upbeat and positive!" And no doubt you are, because I was too, especially around others,