Introducing Myself and Thoughts Between Pages....and a business challenge!!

I want to tell you something, and I don't want your pity. I'm sharing this because I want you to understand the depth behind what I'm building. Every card, every page, every story, every little thing I create comes from a belief I've carried since I was a little girl: Words matter. Sometimes one person saying the right thing at the right moment can be the difference between someone giving up and someone deciding to try one more time. So I'm willing to tell my story—not so you feel sorry for me, but so someone who is sitting in the middle of their own darkness might see it and think: Maybe I can keep going too. Maybe they reach out. Maybe they ask for help. Maybe they believe, even for one more day, that their life can become something different. I fought like hell to get here. And if sharing the road I walked helps someone else find the strength to keep walking theirs, then none of it was for nothing. This is why this business matters to me. It's not just what I'm building. It's what I hope it gives back. Right now, I don't know how I'm going to afford the holidays. I don't know how I'm going to get my home to where it needs to be so I can become my daughter's guardian. I have enough money to make it through this month, and after that… I honestly don't know. And if I'm being completely honest, sometimes I'm deeply confused by my own life. I've fought through things I don't know how I survived. I've fought to heal. I've fought to become someone I can finally be proud of. I've fought to stay alive long enough to see whether life could actually become something different. And somehow, even after all of that, I'm still struggling. I don't understand it. But I also don't want my story to end with “look how hard my life has been.” I want it to be about what happens when you keep trying anyway. That's why I'm giving myself a challenge. My 40th birthday is January 28th. I'm going to spend the months between now and then building Thoughts Between Pages Studio into a business that can consistently support me full-time. I don't know exactly how I'm going to do it yet. I'm scared. I'm overwhelmed. And I have absolutely no guarantee that it will work. But I'm going to try. And I'm sharing that publicly because maybe someone watching this is in their own version of “I don't know how I'm going to make it.” Maybe they're looking at their life and wondering why they're still struggling after everything they've already survived. Maybe they need to see someone who doesn't have it figured out either… but is still getting up and trying. If that's you, I want you to know something: You don't have to know how you're going to fix your whole life today. You just have to find enough strength to take the next step. And then the next one. And then the next. I'm going to keep taking mine. And if sharing my story gives even one person a reason to keep taking theirs, then I'm willing to let you see the messy parts. Not because I want you to feel sorry for me. Because I want you to see what it looks like to keep fighting for a life you haven't gotten to live yet. This business is part of that fight. And maybe, someday, someone will look at what I built and never know how close to the edge I was when I started building it. But I'll know. And I'll know I kept going. Instagram: Thoughtsbetweenpages1 Facebook:Thoughts Between Pages Tiktok:T #thoughtsbetweenpages #communication #mentalhealthawareness #entrepreneur #selflove #healing #smallbusimess #hope