Looking around me that day on the sandbar, I saw beautiful, tanned bodies enjoying their lovely sunbathing routine. As I sat there holding back tears, I thought that there just had to be more to life. Why was my life always so hard? Why was I constantly feeling that the life had been sucked out of me? In this blog Karen shares her life struggles, her decision to draw a line in the sand, and choices she made to arise from the darkness along with 3 powerful journal prompts.