Some decision/event in ourlife changes us completely.
What is your 'turning point'?

My sister attempted suicide..life is too short

I dont think that I have had one major turning point, just a lot of things that slowly made me realise that its easier to laugh at life and at myself.

Life so far has not given me any major shocks, just gentle knocks that have chiseled away and made me who I am today.

Many turning points ... sometimes causing a change in trajectory ... sometimes nudging me to make tough decisions ... sometimes throwing me head first off a cliff ... sometimes shedding layers of who I am not to reveal who I've always been ...


-My own brief death in the mid 90's
-My first solo art show
-My husband's affair
-The end of a 20 year marriage
-Helping my mother mentally process a life half lived and holding her as she took her last breaths
-Falling in love and having my heart ripped out
-Overcoming a lifelong fear of heights, speed and rollercoasters by visiting 3 theme parks in 3 days and riding every single one ... truly liberating...

and a million other moments that make this life so rich and juicy.

I love where I am .. all those moments shaped who I've become and where I've ended up. I wouldn't change any of it! It helps being a ridiculously dedicated optimist

When I discovered the small block Chevy......

me too

13 years old...right before school started. I decided that I had been a dork/nerd too long and I didn't want to be like anyone else either.




I have ever since dressed how I want, everyone elses opinion be damned.



Believe it or not, no one screwed with me at school. My fathers business was a KyokushinKai Karate fighting school and he makes custom show motorcycles and knives. I grew up with the kids who knew I had fighting classes three times a week since I could stand.

I made that desicion to just be whatever I wanted to be....and I have never given it up. My life is better for it.

You'd fit right in today

There are many 'turning points'
every event has had some effect on me.

my brothers death when i was 11 send me spiraling
into an eternal quest for all the answers.

my own brief death confirmed why i started
seeking to begin with

the birth of each of my children changed me

moments of bliss during meditation

so many life altering events...that is what their for,
to alter and change us
hopefully for the better, not bitter

My conversion to spiritual things. My music/biz career. The privilege of loving my wife and child.

When i broke up with the guy i was with for ten years. He was my childhood sweetheart. We met at school. I remember thinking "F*** this! I don't need to be treated like this!". I finally managed to walk away from him. Probably cos i knew that i deserved better. But you don't ever realise that until you leave. Before i healed my hurt, i had a narky ignorant personality. And i blamed everyone BUT him. It only pushed me into the arms of people with much better personalities than what he ever had. In our case, love was lost.

I feel the same way as Lady. Many events through the years changed how I lived my life or changed how I looked at things. The one thing that progressed out of the past was the strength and faith that I gained in myself for overcoming the hurdles I had to face.