Trust Your Journey Newsletter
June 2011
                     

 
 
                     

 

 
 
Greetings!

Summertime! Can you believe it? I hope you are safe from the most recent storms around the country. I think you would agree that weather events of this nature can raise our level of appreciation for what really matters most in our lives.    

 

On a typical day I communicate with many people-friends, family and those that share their stories with Ruth and me through Trust Your Journey. The individuals that inspire us by sharing their journey all seem to have one common denominator: in their darkest moment they found a purpose and meaning in their life. It wasn't the only meaningful event in their lives, but it was the one that stood out like no other experience. I, for one, am grateful not only for the one big thing (cancer) but also for the many smaller things that life has shared with me.

 

I firmly believe that our greatest challenges present us with our greatest opportunities. We need to constantly recognize those opportunities and know that our lives will be enriched when we follow our hearts. I recently came across a quote that resonated deeply with me because it seems to summarize my core belief about challenges and opportunities.

 

"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness."~Unknown

 

In This Issue
TYJ Retailer Spotlight and Updates
TYJ Special Offer
Letters Sharing the Journey
Quick Links
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Trust Your Journey Retailer Spotlight

  

Trust Your Journey would like to spotlight this month our friends at Life on the Lake in Arnolds Park, IA. We love these folks and all they do for TYJ. Stop by and say hello!  


Please welcome these new retailers to the Trust Your Journey family: JD Mills in Ely, MN, ZuZu Pedals in Port Washington, WI, and Spa Harmony in Washington, PA. We also have a store locator on our new website that can help find a dealer near you!

You can also continue to check the web at www.zappos.com,  www.femailcreations.com, www.campmor.com, www.gandermountain.com, www.cabelas.com and www.sierratradingpost.com for TYJ products. Under search or keyword just enter Trust Your Journey. 
 Trust Your Journey Products 

Trust Your Journey would like to thank Fitness Magazine for their recent write up about our Share Adjustable Bracelets in their June issue. To show appreciation to all  our new as well as old friends of TYJ, we would like to offer you a 20% discount on any purchases through 7/15. Just enter tyj71511 into the Promo Code box when checking out. We are grateful! 

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Letters Sharing the Journey

Letter from Bre, a new friend of Trust Your Journey:

 

Hi,

 

My journey starts at the age of 17. My mom, had always been a troubled woman, but had a really knack at hiding it. I was her daughter so of course i could sense that something was always not right with her. I love my mom, but it was hard to love her through out my childhood because of the terrible memories with drugs and alcohol that I can recall. There wasn't a Christmas spent without my mom being hungover or still drunk from the night before. Parents fighting in front of my sisters and I. Screaming at us for telling them to stop. Terrible memories. And now here I am at 21 and for the past few years (since i was 17) my mom has stopped one bad addiction after going through treatment and picked up another. One word, Pills. The worst 5 letter word imaginable. I'm old enough now to understand it all and for the longest time i resented her. No, I hated her for doing this to our family and to herself. Loosing job after job. My father has been with her his entire life--35+ years. A man who devoted his life to her and who is now caring for a child, a spoiled selfish child who cares for nobody but herself and when her next fix will be. I could go on and on, but I'll choose to stop there. I don't know what kind of journey my mom is taking herself on, but i wish it wasn't the path she chose. I hope she can turn her life around and change before she looses everyone and everything that cares for her. My journey through all of this has been hard. Lots of crying, lots of "whys?" but I'm learning to understand something. Even after all those years of hating her because of events from my childhood, recent events made me realize that I love her more then anyone or anything on this earth and if I truly did hate her I wouldn't be trying so hard to save her. I wouldn't be hurting as bad as I do. Life has a funny way of teaching you things, but I'm learning to trust my journey.   


Your friend,
Bre

 

 

  

 

(TYJ Special Note: If you want to share a part of your journey with others and we post it in a newsletter or on our website, we will send you a special Trust Your Journey gift. Just email your story to

beth@trustyourjourney.com)
Yours in the journey,
 Ruth and Beth
 

 

 

 

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