Many of you know the story of how I started what has become this website. Over 20 years ago I was emailing with a friend once a week. It was a friend from college who had boys similar age to my older ones (and this was before #3 came along). That series of emails was a lifeline for me to get through the hour, the day, the week. There are stages of motherhood that can be very isolating…hauntingly lonely surrounded by noise.
After a year or so of emailing, my friend suggested we start blogs instead of emailing (full disclosure, she was emailing someone else too!) and we could read each others’ blogs. I started a blog that day by following her link over to blogspot and “filling out the form”. I started a blog because I needed to maintain that relationship.
And what I found through blogging was others who blogged for relationships too!
In fact some of my dearest friends came through reading their writing, leaving comments, following on social media (once it existed) and occasionally {squeal} meeting in person.
Rachel Martin is one of those friends that I met online and we never get to spend enough time together in person. What I love about Rachel is that I can just feel with 100% certainty that she writes for the same reason that I do…connection. I am confident of that because of the online community that she has fostered and the books she writes from the heart.
Her latest book is launching today!
It is called Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life. Inside this book are personal stories and “in the trenches of motherhood” experiences that has lead Rachel on an amazing journey.
I can’t think of anyone that couldn’t learn something from this book! Rachel is passionate about encouraging others that there IS a fire within each of us.
If you have ever wondered, what’s next?, this book is a really good step!
How to find and buy Get Your Spark Back by Rachel Marie Martin:
I am reading this book as I take my youngest to college…not for any particular reason {giggle} but because I think all the changes that are happening this year means that this book arrived just in time for me!
