In the beginning…
It all started for me at the beginning of 2010. We took a family cruise vacation and I had some issues around my husband’s reluctance to do some sightseeing in Puerto Rico. Once we were on the cruise ship, I had a bit of a meltdown and cried all night our first night onboard. It had become so clear at the time that I needed to find a different path and that his lack of desire to live life was not resonating with me. I wasn’t sure how I would move on with our two daughters and pull it off and I stayed put.
About 4 months later I met my twin flame, and it seemed like God had brought us together based on my desire to be in a relationship with someone that had more common interests.
Then, after a very profitable beginning to the new year, I suddenly lost all of the design clients that I had worked with for the prior 20 years. My world came crashing down on me and I went into a dark night of the soul. I was filled with grief and despair.
Around this time, I was gifted The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. This book set me on fire and I finished it thinking about how it made so much sense and why don’t we learn all of these concepts in our childhood, before we get into our lives. With this came years of reading anything I could get my hands on, as I believed that this was a spiritual wake-up call. After that I was onto Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist and Michael Singer’s The Untethered Soul.
I had already begun yoga in 2008 and now started to rely heavily on this as a means of relief. The yoga practice got me interested in meditation. It was a long and hard process to create and maintain a practice, but now I have been meditating for about 15 years and I start each day by sitting in silence.
I have come to realize that I needed to go through all of this to accept spirituality as the basis for my life.
About 8 years ago I started to feel this incredible sensation of transformation and this sense of “becoming” a new person. That was the beginning of Becoming Cece.