Cecily helped me to understand that the past wasn’t my only problem. How I was dealing with it, or more accurately, not dealing with it, was making me unhappy. There’s a wonderful quote attributed to George Lucas: “We’re all living in cages with the door wide open.” That was me until I realized I had the power—and the responsibility—to set myself free. To step out of the cage of whatever I’d experienced in the past, to think for myself, and to believe in my choices.
