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Overcoming Life Itself.
Submitted by: Olivia Winkelhausen
Sacramento CaGrew up in a small ranch town just south of the Oregon border. Didn’t have much growing up especially once my mom got breast cancer for the second time. She died when I was 11. I was raised by family friends after and was abused and at the age of 14 moved to Sacramento to live with my sister.
As many people out there can probably relate to, I grew up in a tough, cruel world where trust was just a word. From the age of 11 I had suffered from depression due to losing my mother to cancer. Life only got worse the older I got and right after I graduated I was kicked out of the house for not joining the military. I was alone and consumed in my grief and sorrow.
I bounced from house to house until I was 21 and in that time I got an inspiration to watch The Secret. The Secret had played in my house throughout high school for years, I just never paid any attention to it. One time was all it took to totally turn my world upside down and for once, in a good way.
As a child I had been forced to attend Jehovah Witness meetings and later forced to attend regular church. Let’s just say I despised it and felt so uncomfortable every time I went. At the age of 21 I ended up homeless and living out of my car and trying to go to work every day while hiding the fact that I was homeless. Right before the Christmas of 2018 I was laid off of my job. This should have been terrifying and catastrophic but it wasn’t at all. For some reason I knew it was okay. I knew that I’d be okay and that the Universe would take care of me. Which is something the old me would have had a panic attack over.
Not even a week later I had an interview for a new job and landed it, all because I had faith. I truly believed in the Universe and it provided. Though still homeless, I don’t and won’t let that stop me from living by The Secret.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.