There is no other period in my life that has shaped me more as a human being than the past decade.

It has dealt me the most heart-breaking, deeply-wounding, and most devastating event that I have ever experienced.

But it is the same one that set me on the path of transformation and self-discovery.

Each new year of this past decade found me writing a chapter in the book that is my life.

I wrote new stories that I would never have imagined before the start of my painful journey in 2009.

Like Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, each year the plot was riddled with the big Cs - contradictions, contrasts, challenges, and complexities.

But there were also stories of love, beauty, courage, endurance, and the triumph of the human spirit.