LAUREN'S VISION: A Mother and Daughter's Journey of Love, Loss and Lea
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Lawrence vision, a mother and daughter's journey of love, loss and learning to live again. There are stories we tell ourselves about our life, how it is and what we expect it to be. We spend time worrying about things that never happened and get blown away by things that do. We are never ready for those life altering moments that rocked our world, leaving us to figure out how to pick up the pieces. We can find strength during these times or we can fall apart. Sometimes we do both which is only natural. My tendency, which has also been one of my biggest challenges is to be a fixer. I analyze and overthink the situation, do what needs to be done to get back on track and collapse after somehow always I found the strength to pick myself up. No matter how horrifying the situation. The problem is there are things in life that cannot be fixed or even understood what happened in my family will provide lessons after the lesson that some things can't be controlled. I was living the american dream, I had put myself through college, have professional success boy, a nice car condo on the water, I met a wonderful man and got married. We went on to have a family, moved into our dream home and we were getting all the things I thought we deserved and should do be and have for a time. I got caught up in these superficial things as curveballs and setbacks came my way I learned to see past them. I realize life is about love which transcends everything, including unimaginable loss and even the things we think of as boundaries like time and distance. I've come to understand no matter when life comes to an end, Love does not. My biggest lesson was realizing that love. It's not something to control of fear losing, but rather something you give freely and carry with. You always, it goes beyond the hurt of loss and our expectation of what is supposed to happen as his heart. This is a story about the death and the breath of my and miserable love for my child. The struggles we endure, the lesson we taught each other along the way. I have picked up the pen to write about my journey with Lauren many times. Well, life's trials and tribulations kept adding new pages and allowing me to see the old ones through the different lens. Maybe it took so long to finish this book because of the additional lessons I had to learn and process before I could write it in a way that will help others. Maybe I should have learned them sooner. Because my greatest teacher, my daughter Lauren, it was all about love, which is the core message that needs to be shared even in her most challenging moments. Lauren was concerned about others, always wanting to share her love and laughter. She took chances when I certainly wouldn't. She approached complete strangers when she felt like they needed support. She would give them one of her bracelets made out of pretty pastel colored beads in the shape of stars, butterflies and hearts To me these shapes symbolize Lawrence like beauty and love and personified who she was to Laura Lauren. They represent something else. She had said this bracelet has love energy and power in every bead. They also served as a great conversation starter and a surefire way for her to engage with others. There were times I wanted her not to be bothered anyone, but I watched and realized how wrong I was. Most people were lit up by my daughter's open loving nature. And to this day I meet people wearing those bracelets and stores, airports, beaches and all over the place. Some can't put into words why they love their bracelets so much. Yet they all remember the little girl who gave it to them and the magic that comes from their bracelet. It was easy to love Lauren, but by no means was it an easy life. It was filled with so many challenges and anniversaries, heartache, joy and loss, sadness and much more. But at its core, it was pure unconditional love. I wanted Lauren to know that no matter what she was loved and that together we could get through anything. I was focused on loving Lauren unconditionally. But somewhere along the way I learned I was worthy and deserving of that too. We all are, we just have to give our love away freely and expect nothing in return. I admit there are times when giving all I had to Lauren and my family I lost touch with myself that happens to so many mothers and caregivers. This journey has not only been about Lawrence challenges or the sharks that followed, but also about loving myself, rediscovering who I am and reclaiming my own hopes and dreams. I'm living proof Others can do the same. I struggle with how many spiritual material wanted to include in this book for fear of putting people off. But in my quest to help Lauren live her best life, I traveled down many unfamiliar paths because I do not want to leave any stone unturned. I was also willing to travel to the ends of the earth and to try almost anything as long as it didn't hurt her and my helper. We use Western Eastern medicine, meditation, alternative therapies and treatments, supplements and diets. I brought in spiritual healers, realtors and teachers, some metal, these people's might even consider pretty out there, but when I delve into those parts, take what you like and leave the rest. What I know for sure is all this led to me on a spiritual journey I never would have taken otherwise. It's the spiritual part of my journey that taught me to Love stays with you always. I know this too because I feel Lawrence love around me each and every day she seems to have have transcend death with her loving positive ways and somehow encapsulated that in the bracelet it has become a symbol of love, energy and power that she embodied and goes on to lift others up and remind them that whatever life challenges they face, they got this. They realized if Lauren can go through all, she went through and live h ph happily positive and healthy, they can too. For me, Lauren taught me how precious life is and to live our best life every moment of every day I could have never known at the time that all the love and strength I poured into her will come back to show me in dealing with her loss. And then after shocks to come, this is my tribute to my beautiful, sweet, kind, compassionate and amazing daughter for the incredible life she lived and although she touched. But most of all for her love.
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