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This timeline starts at my birth. I was born on May 18th, 1996. My parents decided to only have one child. When I was born mom worked at a bank, and dad worked for Miller Lite.

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Life as a small child was fun. I remember mostly camping with my parents. I started competition dance. I found myself, my outlet, and what I loved to do.

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My parents eventually both obtained college degrees, and life seemed to be more stable. My parents relationship become toxic though, and dad was an alcoholic. I remember the fighting, and violence, but I always had dance as an outlet.

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At the age of ten my parents divorced, and my mom became a single parent. I remember her crying in her room every night for months. I didn’t understand support. I went through the divorce alone. My mom went through financial issues.

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My world came tumbling down. My mom could not afford to keep me enrolled in dance any longer. I was crushed. I was depressed. I was angry. I didn’t understand at the age of twelve that my mom couldn’t afford it, she never explained it to me. One day it was just gone…..without an explanation. I never went back. I just lost my family, and my only outlet. I started to gain weight, and think in a negative mindset

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I started High School in 2010. I had no friends, and no goals. My mom always thought I was messed up in the head, and she made me get on antidepressants, mood stabilizers, ADHD meds. High School wasn’t terrible. High School was fun at times. I had okay friends, but not good friends.

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I met, and fell in love with Thomas in my junior year of High School. Thomas was the bad boy, and had a troubled past, but we fell hard and fast. Thomas was my first boyfriend, and my best friend.

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I graduated high school in 2014.

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Thomas and I moved into our first apartment together.

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Thomas and I both went through various jobs. I was working for 7-Eleven in supply chain, and Thomas was doing installations for a security company. Thomas and I had been together for around 8 years by 2019. In 2019 we decided to expand our family!

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Two months before our son was born we purchased our first house.

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On June 12th, 2020 at 11:59am our son Mason Jett was born. Mason was 6.5lbs, and 20 inches.

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Sometimes things don’t work out. People change, and you grow apart. Thomas and I ended our relationship in 2021. I was left broken, and my son went to go live with my mom. I was alone, homeless, and with no support. I decided to start over, and do things over again, but the correct way this time.

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In 2022 our house was foreclosed on. We had no choice but to leave our home.

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In October of 2022 I started a new job. I love working in the fitness industry!

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I regained my life. I started to heal from my breakup. I found myself, and I changed. I started reading/education myself. I came out of a severe depression hungry for a better life for myself, and son. I decided to enroll in college. I hope to look back in a few years, and be truly proud of myself.

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What are some common threads you found in your timeline?
Throughout my life I have remained very resilient, even through loss, and hardships. What activities or events recur? Growth, and staying optimistic. What part of your personality keeps reappearing? The nurturing, caring, and loving part of my personality is still going strong.

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What personal strengths did this process reveal to you? This process has revealed to me to never give up, and that its never to late to start over, and do better. What surprising accomplishments appeared? I healed from heartbreak. I found God, and my faith. I started believing in myself. What moments revealed you may be stronger, braver, wiser, than you may have though? When you go through things that basically almost kill you… even the the smallest things make my day, I’m so proud of myself for taking these big leaps towards my future. The moment I walked into LSC and signed up for classes showed me how strong, and determined I was.

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Now that you have charted your past, which of these events are worthy of your future? All of these events are worthy of my future, without these events, I wouldn’t have got to this point, and decided to change my future. What do you want to change? I want to change the fact that I don’t have a college degree. That’s why I have decided to come to school and educate myself. How can you pull from the best moments to create the life you want? I’m pulling from everything I have learned from my past to push me to a better future. My faith in God has also guided me in the correct direction.