Photo cred: Jessica Cadis Photography

This is my new friend Natalie and her darling family.  Natalie is a health & wellness coach here in the area.  If at any given moment, you check out her business Facebook page or even her personal page, you’re sure to find fun quotes, videos and articles full of inspiration to encourage you to keep going, to keep moving in the direction of your dreams.

At face value, that may seem surface.

But lean in, let me tell you something.  From all the women I’ve met and worked with, myself included, I have found one thing to be true, over and over again.  Our pain becomes our story.  The thing that hurt us the most, the struggle we didn’t know we’d survive, those are the fires that shape us.  If we choose it, they make us someone we never dreamed we could be.  And that person we …