Waking up. What does that mean to you? Hitting the alarm clock as fast as possible to halt the heart wrenching sound of sirens going off beside your head!? Haha, can you tell I really don’t like the sound of alarm clocks? For me, waking up can mean so many different things- from setting the alarm (thankfully with ascending volume of a peaceful melody nowadays) to having another aha! moment while working with kids, talking to a friend or reading a book or website. The path of Life has so many twists and turns, sunshine around one bend and a dark storm cloud looming around the next. I think I have always been a free-spirit at heart, but life can sometimes lead us to put up walls, create boundaries where there were none before, and believe that we need to live within them in order to “attain success.” I’ve spent a good part of my life fighting against the feeling of this while also increasing my belief in it being the right way to live. The inner turmoil has been real. And then, after