I remember walking these streets of NY, depressed and lost. I had given up the dream my parents worked so hard to pay for - the path everyone expected me to take - and I become a personal trainer. I wanted to help people live their best lives. I loved that work, but I was still so lonely. I was engaged and planning a big wedding to another trainer, making six figures and living in a gorgeous high-rise on the Upper East Side. Life on paper looked great. Life in my heart felt disconnected. Walking these streets now as a mama, a daughter of God, a wife of a man who makes me want to be my best, a friend, imperfect, broken and still whole in what matters…. All I can do is praise God right now! A note to myself 10 years ago: the best is yet to come! It’s not going to be easy but it will be WORTH IT. 10 years from now, you will be walking the streets of a city you used to call home with two of your very best friends and a completely different life than you could have ever dreamed up. God is AWESOME. - Lara