When the tragedy strikes...

Early April 2014

My older son has just came back from World Figure Skating Championships in Japan.  We were thrilled by the progress that him and his ice-dance partner were making.  They were planning the new season and looking forward to two weeks off from grueling training schedule. 

Then just few weeks into this bliss, we get a Facebook Message that his skating partner quit.  She is just not coming back to US to train. 

This was unexpected, unprofessional, unjust, unthinkable... I could go on and on and on... I'm still not OK, with what she did.   She benefited from walking away, someone made sure of that - skating politics.  There was nothing we could do.  

The dream shuttered.

The World around me collapsed. My son was devastated and tried to cope... I was a total mess, a wreck really.  I screamed, I sobbed, cursed... I hated and cried some more.  In fact I cried every day for about 4 months.  

Please don't judge.  This was my grieving process as I was laying to rest 14 years of hard work, sacrifices, dedication and perseverance.  

I was at the point where I didn't want to talk to anyone, I didn't go out, I was shutting down.  There were so many unanswered questions... I just didn't know how to move on. 

Adding this to my physical exhaustion that I was already dealing with, I was not doing good.  Things became quite scary as I was on a brink of depression. 

I was sitting on a sofa and browsing Facebook posts from my friends.  I haven'e posted in months as there was nothing positive (I thought) I could share with others, and venting my sorrows out in the open would only bring in more questions (that I had no answers to) and more pain and tears.  So I was just watching... and watching... and one day I became quite intrigued with what I saw.  

One of my longtime friends was sharing her story and was thrilled about how great she was feeling.  

Well... I was down in the rut and I was not feeling well at all.  

It took me few weeks of quietly watching my friends' posts before I got the guts to ask what she was going on and on about.

She said - you really need to try this stuff!  It's called Thrive and it's amazing!

Looking back on that day I know now that she has saved me.  She introduced me to something that gave me the energy to live again.  I was sure that this Thrive Experience will be as effective as all other things that I tried over the years to loose weight, get in shape, feel better, get stronger...

None of those programs worked for me - not one!  Why would this new Thrive do?

Boy was I wrong!