Bitter/Sweet

<p><em>Bitter/Sweet: Surviving the Struggle Within</em> describes my efforts to face the fears and pain of love and self-love sickness and health death and spirituality and forgiveness. It also expresses my hope to find the answers to life's questions. </p><p> </p><p>First I had to acknowledge self because without self-acknowledgement every obstacle will magnify. In understanding what makes me tick and how my past could hold me back I learned to love myself which allowed me to find true love.</p><p> </p><p>Bitter poisons that once flowed through my veins are now replaced with the sweet taste of honey. My agonies frustrations and pain took me on one excursion after another.</p><p> </p><p>The only true journey toward growth and fulfillment is tunneling through the many avenues of self. I had to go within before I could move forward. I had to master this expedition.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(255 0 0 1)> </span></p><p>No matter what I seek everything I need is already inside me. Am I important enough to myself to go within and search for what I want and need? It is what I choose to accept about my life that will make it <em>Bitter</em> or <em>Sweet.</em></p><p> </p><p>And I realize that I am not alone. Everyone experiences pain and discord.</p><p> </p><p>I hope my words reach others so they too can rejoice. I have learned to celebrate the child within to overcome past hurts and all the old <em>Bitter/Sweet </em>experiences. This chronicles where I have been where I am today and what I have accomplished. </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>(About the Author)</strong></p><p> </p><p>First-time author Brenda Stubbs grew up in Ohio as one of eight children in a home with no running hot water an outhouse and a potbelly coal stove. She is now a life coach.</p>