I've Been There (IBT) A Testimony Of Hope: A CHANCE TO OD THINGS OVER...WOULD YOU DO ANY OF THESE THINGS?

Welcome to the Blog for my book I've Been There...My Testimony of Hope.

This blog is a mixed bag, no holds barred mix of back stories, information, updates, and connection links to I've Been There...A Testimony of Hope. It has links inks.

My hubs David and I are committed to sharing CHANGE MAKING COMMUNICATIONS to inspire life-affirming changes at any age and stage of life. promote the idea that it is never too late to be great and to live our very best lives.

We welcome and appreciate all supporters. Together we are stronger, and that is the message of I've Been There...A Testimony of Hope.

The who, what, when and why of my book

For years prior to writing this book, my hubs David, clients and friends urged me to share the who, what, when and why of where I was and where I am today.

Oddly it was a quote that framed things in a way that made sense to share my healing and spiritual path from the "there to my healthy, happy here. The essence of the quote was, "those who have walked through the fires and became a Phoenix have a moral responsibility to give the lessons back to give other their transformational wings."

The girl in the shadows on the book jacket was me back "there.| " I wrote this book as a testimony of hope and chronicale how my scars were turned into Lodestars that guide my and others I share our Change Making ideas with today. My book is an offering and affirmation that it is not what happens to us that defines who and what we become. Instead, it is how we respond and choose to do about it.

Bright blessings on your own journey,

Raia

Coralie "Raia" Darsey-Malloy

Sunday, March 6, 2011

A CHANCE TO OD THINGS OVER...WOULD YOU DO ANY OF THESE THINGS?

I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers.

I would eat more ice cream and less beans.

I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

You see. I would not live seriously and sanely hour after hour, day after day.

In fact, I'd try to have nothing else, just moments, one after

another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.

I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a

thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute.

If I had to do it over again, I would travel lighter than I have.

If I had to live my life over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.

I would go to more dances.

I would ride more merry-go-rounds.

I would pick more daisies and stop and smell more flowers.

What a perfectly good day this is for starting over, for living

fully, for using each moment up completely, wringing every drop of

life from it before jumping headlong into the next.

It doesn't need to be cluttered with excuses, avoided with pretense or muddied with regret.

I would not take myself or others so seriously.

I would exercise more and sit at my computer less.

It just needs to be lived, embraced and savored.

May you always be willing dance in the rain, make angels in the snow and hug more people.

I would remind myself more often that happiness is our spiritual birthright and worry about the future or regretting the past eclipses our joy in the "now" of our experience.

If I had a chance to do things over I'd dance more and worry less because today is the today we worried about yesterday and all is well right here...right now.

Until the next time,May your day be filled with all things good.

Here is another thought provoking idea. Think about it and let me know what you would do if you had to live your life over again or what you plan to do to improve the quality of it right NOW!