Home is a physical place. It represents a strong bodyguard, a mighty defender, blocking any difficulties the world and its occupants throw into your path. Whether the tiniest hut or a magnificent palace, it amazes in its ability to provide comfort whenever it swallows you within its walls.
Home is a mental place. It’s any situation where your mind is at ease, clear, and sharp. It’s where the fires of stress are doused by the cool hose of mindfulness watering any personal discomforts with your strengths, talents, and values. It’s where confidence forever reigns supreme.
Home is a social place. It’s being in the presence of those who purposefully utilize the tools of mutual admiration, respect, and love combined with healthy doses of laughter, honesty, trust, wisdom, fun, and sacrifice—all toward the principle of maintaining each other’s best version of self.
Home is a spiritual place—a place inside your mind or outside your body that feeds your purpose and provides unrelenting invisible advocacy for your core being when life is at its darkest or when you are facing fears threatening to erase your place in the world.
I dedicate this book to those whose crossroads have taken them to distant places far from where they want to be physically, mentally, socially or spiritually.
And to those whose crossroads have brought them home—welcome back.