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Rewrite Your Story

How to break free from your past and create a new narrative for your life

Shannon D. Smith
5 min readFeb 3, 2024
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Many of us have been stuck in negative patterns.

The good news is it’s never too late to rewrite our stories.

It doesn’t matter where you are right now.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve made mistakes or failed before.

What matters is your willingness to make the brave choice to redirect your life in a way that best suits you.

Break free from the past

The past can be a burden that weighs us down and holds us back from living our best lives.

For many years, I stuffed the tattered pieces of my life in a mental folder labeled broken parts.

I had given up hope of ever feeling whole or happy again.

After all, what could I do about all the things that happened to me from a traumatic childhood to an abusive marriage in adulthood.

No breaks were given.

Yet somewhere down the line, by divine intervention or a moment of insanity, I decided to open that folder and make peace with the past so I could move forward.

How, you ask?

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Shannon D. Smith
Shannon D. Smith

Written by Shannon D. Smith

The Alignment Architect | I help professionals and organizations cultivate alignment in their careers, teams, and workplaces for sustainable success.

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