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    Notes To My 25 Year Old Self ... A Spiritual Journey
    Notes To My 25 Year Old Self ... A Spiritual Journey
    Notes To My 25 Year Old Self ... A Spiritual Journey
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    Notes To My 25 Year Old Self ... A Spiritual Journey

    By Juliet Dorris-Williams

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    The New Testament book of Titus speaks to how the older women, through their lives, should model reverence for God and good behaviors for the younger women. This then, coupled with a mother’s love for her daughter, became the impetus and the inspiration for “Notes”. Because older women remember and know what it was to be younger woman, rather than lecture to ears that had grown tired of the broken record, it was simply easier to let my life experience speak. And through these words, through my mistakes, my lessons learned, hopefully, and finally, I could feel that I had birthed not a daughter, who saw herself as a small, insignificant creature, beat up by circumstances and relationships, but a woman, proud of who and what she is, with the knowledge that she matters, she is worthy, and that she is fearfully and wonderfully made, and that God has uniquely purposed her, equipped her, through her gifts and talents to do great things and to touch people’s lives. The ultimate lesson, perhaps the final “Note”, for the woman that I birthed, is that the world will ultimately be a better place, when she, when all of us, show up fully in it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJuliet Dorris-Williams
    Release dateAug 30, 2014
    ISBN9781311368669
    Notes To My 25 Year Old Self ... A Spiritual Journey
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    Juliet Dorris-Williams

    Juliet C. Dorris-Williams is a wife, mom, professional licensed social worker. Throughout her adult life, she has learned to successfully navigate the challenges that come with being a survivor of trauma and its accompanying twin, depression. Juliet credits the transformative power of her Christian faith, clinical intervention and peer support as instrumental for her healing. Other than the articles in her local church newsletters, and collaborative efforts with others, this is her first venture as a published author. Juliet lives in Reynoldsburg, Ohio with her husband, #1 cheerleader, and soul mate, Timothy, Sr. Their blended family includes four adult children, which includes two daughters along with one very special daughter-in-law. It’s to these unique young women that this book is especially dedicated. Juliet is a lifelong learner with an insatiable curiosity and a seriously expensive addiction to books.

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      Notes To My 25 Year Old Self ... A Spiritual Journey - Juliet Dorris-Williams

      Notes to my 25 Year Old Self…

      A Spiritual Journey

      Juliet C. Dorris-Williams

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      Copyright © 2017 by Juliet Dorris-Williams

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      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Facts of Life

      The Notes

      Note #1: Don’t be afraid! BE YOU!

      Note #2: Men – Women – Guts

      Note #3: Betrayal

      Note #4: Be Accountable to Yourself

      Note #5: Just Go

      Note #6: You Matter

      Note #7: Owning your Power

      Note #8: Using your Superpowers for Good

      Note #9: Act on what YOU know!

      Note #10: The Price for Wisdom

      15 Things Every 25-year-old Woman Needs to Know

      A Conversation…an Epilogue Perhaps

      Tiffany’s Response to Notes

      Author’s Bio

      Notes to my 25 Year Old Self…

      A Spiritual Journey

      Dedication

      Especially to Tiffany, the daughter of my body, but also to Kimberly, and Shannon and all the young women that I have mom-ed in one way or another on this journey called life.

      Introduction

      The motivation for what became this book was simply a mother’s love for her daughter who was just turning 25. She, along with girlfriends in her same age group, seemed to be struggling — struggling with life, with men, with careers, with men, with big decisions, with small decisions. Struggling with men!!

      Notice the theme?

      Like all mothers it is difficult to sit and watch while your children struggle. In the recent months prior, compounding what was already a difficult time, my beautiful and talented daughter, after an unexpected job loss, moved back home. Not only was she struggling, Mom was forced to observe that struggle in an uncomfortable up close and personal way.

      Mothers who want to foster and maintain a strong and healthy relationship with their children, start learning and practicing ways to keep our mouths shut when those children are in high school. We instinctively know that the time is growing short for ‘hands on parenting’. Our children are going to go off to college, or to actuate some other plan that will take them to a new place, a new environment, a new town even, where you cannot follow. You will not be there to kiss their hurts away, set limits and boundaries, or keep them from doing things that you consider risky.

      So, while they are in their teen years, we don’t rush to heal the hurt. We encourage our babies to make their own decisions. We give them information. We try to teach them things they will need to live independent of us. We hope and pray that we have given them the information, the skills and the tools to make good decisions for themselves. Because when they go away from us — because they must go away from us — they will be safe and we won’t have to worry about them. Well…we try real hard not to worry about them.

      Our babies are SO anxious to be ‘grown-ups’. And then they are. Thus begins what I have come to appreciate as the parent/friend dance.

      So on my daughter Tiffany’s 25th birthday, I wanted to mark this milestone with something more substantial than an I love you happy birthday card. I wanted to give her something that would speak to what I saw her struggling with, that would encourage her, but would not make her feel that she was a failure.

      This because another recurring theme is that because of her struggles, a frequent quote from her was, I suck at life. And that, to me, was just unacceptable, that a child of mine, or any mother’s child, would walk another day in life not understanding that ‘hard knocks’ were just a normal part of life, and that we ALL have to, and HAD to go through them. It was — is the only path to wisdom.

      So, while watching a marathon of recorded Oprah shows a week or so before Tiffany’s birthday, I was intrigued by a question that she asked a couple of her guests, as they were looking at themselves when they were many years younger. That question was something like, ‘What would you now say to that young woman/man?’

      The implication in the question is that now that you are much older, and hopefully wiser, what would you say to your younger self to ease their journey forward? My inspiration to share with my daughter, on the 25th anniversary of her birth, the things that I would say to my 25-year-old self, through the lens of a 53-year-old woman who

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