Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My story is about a little girl finding her freedom to the understanding of life as she grows up into a woman. All her life, she felt as if she was walking into many walls and never understood why she was going through so many hurdles. Based on this story, I decided to write a book. The little girl was me. I wanted to be an inspiration to the youth and women. I wanted them to understand how important it was for you to have a personal connection with God and how I was introduced to knowing him.
My grandmother was my inspiration to me. Although she didn’t write a book, I felt I needed to share with the world her legacy. She was a praying grandmother who raised my sisters and me. Her prayers have definitely been a covering over my life even when she had long gone to be with Christ. I started writing this book in early 2020 after I got married in March. The pieces to my desires of freedom finally came to me once I met my husband. He shared some inspiring words with me daily. One inspiration has stuck and the glue to my smile. He said to me one day, “Never let anyone be in control of your happiness”. It was truly a fact to my life. Once I married him, I realized it was time to close a chapter in my life. This is where the title of my book came to life. I felt myself desire to freedom had finally come and I wanted the world to know how I got through the chains and the mazes to that freedom.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
As I was writing my book, it definitely became challenging. I wanted to keep the book interesting. Once I understood my daily scheduling and outlined my subtitles, writing the book was smooth. I had some tuff emotions in between chapters but the more I wrote the emotions surpassed and I knew I was going to love the outcome.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a Quality Engineer for a defense company in McKinney, TX. I must say my proudest moment is graduating from college and writing this book. My journey in college was tough because I set out a few semesters due to my grandmother’s passing and going through a life experience that caused deep depression. I finally returned in 2009 to college and finished in 2012. Through many challenges, I made it to my graduation of a degree. Becoming an author and choosing my life story to be my first book was an accomplishment as well because I used to be embarrassed about my life and even ashamed. I realized that no one is perfect and it was God who got me through it all to be able to have a testimony to inspire.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I never feel like life is luck. I feel I am blessed or that was a blessing from God. I feel I was blessed to get a job with a great company that I was able to get promoted twice in two years. It has definitely been a blessing for myself and my family.
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