What is the connection between pain and triumph? Is it necessary to go through the former to obtain the latter?  Here is a video about two high school kids who have come from nothing AND one is almost blind and the other lost his leg in a tragic accident. Do they let any of that get in their way toward personal victory? Just the opposite.  Their experience has given them ammunition to electrify their lives.  What is it in the human spirit that can turn that switch from pain+victimization to pain+triumph?

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My experience with trying to conceive (TTC) was painful. It was painful on my body, it was painful on my mind and outlook.  It was as if I was on a long train ride expecting to end up in one place, but then realizing in the middle that I had no idea where I was going.  Not only that, I was alone on the train and couldn't get off.  It was scary, frustrating, maddening.  PCOS and two painful miscarriages, including one kind that can even cause cancer. At the time, the only positive thing about the miscarriages was getting a prescription of Valium to deaden the beast inside.  I still silently acknowledge the due dates of those babies.

Four years later - and realizing how much your hindsight is 20/20 -  I can say that the pain I experienced created the foundation - even the energy - I needed to create a new passion and purpose in my life.  The passion and purpose that was added from my pain is the "energy" that helped me create this company  It caused me to take action, to find a way to help other women who are dealing with the pain and that might be feeling similar to what I felt - a passenger on the train to nowhere.  This passion drove me to spend the past two years talking with experts, and researching and researching and researching ways that could be offered to help.  From that research, the continued memory of the pain, created the energy to put 500% of myself into the product development of the Circle + Bloom program.

The passion and purpose my pain gave me is only part of the triumph story of my pain.  June 17, 2009 brought the real true triumph of my story.  This is the day when I received an email from one of our first customers letting me know that she was pregnant and she felt Circle + Bloom was the reason why her train ride to no where finally ended.    The ultimate form of retribution for me.  I feel a tiny bit like I have carried her on my back to help her win the fight.  Thank you, Kelly, for giving me the chance to do that.  I now know that the two years I put into this program have been worth every second.  What have I learned?  Pain+Triumph=Life.