Meet Dawn



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a fun loving, want to see people happy, thirst for life mother of an 18 year old CoLlEgE girl and a 16 year old son with aspergers.  Two time cancer survivor who has never let that get the best of her.  

i'm broken and put together.  I'm a fiercely independent female who loves chivalry.  Yes I know this makes me an oxymoron.  this is a topic i'm sure to cover throughout my writings.  Oh did I mention I'm Hawaiian, Chinese, Italian and Irish?  Lets see passion definitely runs through my veins along with loyalty, determination, drive and all around fierce.  


i'm a runner, cyclist, new swimmer and i crossfit.  Maybe not all that well for any one of them but I just love being active.  After allowing myself to get up to 264lbs not pregnant I will not go back there.  Some weeks its a daily struggle, some weeks I can't wait to get to the gym and lift something or lace up my sneaks and hit the pavement.  I also love SUP.  If I could make a living teaching it and traveling the world I would do it today.  

After being married for 17 years (yes I am still technically married, something we will get to later) I decided to take my life back.  i had lost a big part of who i was trying to conform to something i thought he wanted.  I was so wrong.  So now I'm 41 living the single life in a time when social media can wreak havoc on a relationship.  I already have trust issues and now having to deal with that!

Cancer, failed marriage, raising a son on the autism spectrum, miscarriage, financial struggles, house fire, fidelity, infidelity, family, friends, death, 100lb weight loss, plus a few other areas are all things i have an opinion on because i've been through it.

The funny part of all that.......................I still believe, still have FaItH that it is all part of a master plan God has for me.  I do get down from time to time.  Who doesn't?  But the best part is I also remind myself 

"Everything happens for a reason"

and then I come back and all is good.  My brother once said 
ATTITUDE=100%.
i can't control what happens but i can control my 
ATTITUDE. 

THIS IS A PLACE WHERE I CAN DUMP IT ALL AND HOPEFULLY TOUCH ONE PERSON'S LIFE AND THEY KNOW THEY AREN'T ALONE. 

Peace and Love, Dawn

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