How Self-Love Woke the Mama Bear: Opening a Gift After Nineteen Years

How Self-Love Woke the Mama Bear: Opening a Gift After Nineteen YearsWhen you devote your life to raising two children and teaching hundreds of students, you dish out a lot of love. You give unselfishly. It feels good, albeit stressful, but you wouldnt trade it for the world. There isnt anything you wouldnt do for these children, these adolescents, these young adults. Their joy is your joy. And after 19 years, you feel happy. Why wouldnt you? You are making a difference in the lives of so many. Then one day you realize

When you devote your life to raising two children and teaching hundreds of students, you dish out a lot of love. You give unselfishly. It feels good, albeit
stressful, but you wouldnÕt trade it for the world. There isnÕt anything you wouldnÕt do for these children, these adolescents, these young adults.
Their joy is your joy.

And after 19 years, you feel happy. Why wouldnÕt you? You are making a difference in the lives of so many.

Then one day you realize that while you have been busy shaping the lives of so many, youÕve only been dreaming of the life you really want. ItÕs not until that
day, when something unexpected happens, when you find you've been living an amazing story all along, when you find self-love, that you really wake
up and start living.

A collection of short stories, journal entries, tributes to teachers, poems, and blog posts; the lessons on these pages come from children, students, and teachers IÕve had the opportunity to know, teach, learn from, and love.