It's a Beautiful Life...
- Lorri Brewer

- Sep 30
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 14
There are moments in life when everything familiar collapses. You can feel it — that silent breaking inside where the person you’ve been no longer fits the life you’re living.
That space in-between used to terrify me. It felt like failure, like the world was ending. But now I understand — it was never an ending. It was the bridge between crisis and calm. The transformation before the rebirth.
When my world imploded — the betrayals, the accusations, the noise of corruption — I did what so many of us do: I tried to hold everything together. I defended, explained, and overworked, desperate to prove my worth to people who were never capable of seeing it. Eventually, my body gave up before my spirit did. Stress became physical, and exhaustion became a language my heart could no longer ignore.
But here’s the miracle — that breaking point was also my awakening.
One quiet night, I sat under the stars with my loving dog, Jasper curled beside me and I made a simple promise:
I will no longer defend myself to people so tunnel-visioned by bias they can't see the truth. Their opinions about me, are none of my concern.
That vow changed everything.
From that night forward, courage became my quiet rebellion. I started with small rituals — a clean kitchen sink before bed, a deep breath in the morning, barefoot time on the grass, and a few words of gratitude for the wonderful news that was already on its way.
Those tiny choices became anchors in the storm.
Courage, I discovered, isn’t loud. It’s not the roar of victory or the perfection of control.
It’s the whisper that says, I choose peace.
When I stopped chasing noise, life met me halfway. My book began to flow again, my website took shape, and people appeared who mirrored the integrity I had fought so hard to protect.
That’s the beauty of clarity — when you choose alignment, life reorganizes itself around truth.
Walking Beside You...
If you find yourself standing in the middle of change — between what fell apart and what’s waiting to begin — pause.
Breathe.
You don’t have to rebuild everything overnight.
You only have to take one small step forward.
That’s how freedom feels — not as a dramatic ending, but as a quiet unfolding.
Because even after the hardest storms, when you finally open your eyes, you’ll see what I see now:
What a beautiful life.




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