Although my past has been punctuated by personal crisis’s, Today, I don’t allow that to define who I am. I had to learn to forgive myself for repeating the mistakes, habits, and programming that I learned as a child. Then I made a conscious effort to deprogram those patterns. I needed to heal wounds from my childhood, but also to eliminate the patterns from my young adult life, and recover from an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, which ended in a divorce.