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Lanette Pottle is the founder of the Maine-based non-profit, Positivity Nation, and is affectionately known as Positivity Lady. She is a facilitator of breakthroughs and helps women claim their dreams as reality so they can live the rich, fulfilling lives they deserve.  Learn more about her journey & work by visiting her website: www.positivitylady.com

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Make Peace with Your Past: Find the Good and Embrace the Lessons

“It’s not the events of our lives that shape us but our beliefs as to what those events mean.” ~Tony Robbins

Daughter of an alcoholic. Welfare recipient. Teenage mother. Non-college attendee. Poor decision maker. Unhealthy relationship participant. Financial disaster. Evictee.

All of these statements described me. They also propelled me into action, transforming me into an over-achieving perfectionist. Yet they still weighed me down because I felt like I had to constantly prove I was better than my past—better than the circumstances from which I came.

It took a lot of effort.

It took a lot of energy.

It was …