Hello, I am a big sister, I have five sisters and two brothers. I am a mother of two grown children and a grandmother. I was raised in a Mennonite community. My three grandmothers and mother taught me to be a strong, patient, loving woman. It is their stories that became my story. As if that was not enough, I was an epileptic, having grand mal seizures which stopped which I was 17. 

Early in life I understood what was expected of me and realized the puppet they expected me to be was ready to be released. Letting go of the traditional life my family lived I dropped out of school and later returned as an adult student to college. Working for years in retail and office administration until I became ill with shingles and fibromyalgia. 

Years of my life have been interrupted and lost with many traumas that left me feeling disconnected with myself and others. Decades of anger, pain and shame caused isolation, depression and I lost a part of me I never thought I could get back. 

 

All my life I have believed I could be more and been a very optimistic woman who knew there was more for me. Believed GOD had a bigger plan for me then I could ever imagine. 

I have felt like the clay around me breaking away slowly and very painfully as I became this WOMAN you see today. Layer by layer I am evolving as a woman becoming BOLDER and BRAVER. 

I expand into the boldness, health, prosperity & vitality that God has for me. #kalinaaffirms

The light that shines within me was always there it shone from within and now I want to shine my light out in the world with others I am Illuminated to Illuminate!

 

As a woman who aspires to make a change in lives of others  I want and need to let go of the fear, I have felt and found my voice. The passion, dreams, and songs of my heart are overflowing and ready to be live.

 

The transformation has taken longer than I have wanted because of many health issues over the years and changes in my life. I do not know what the next chapter of my life has in store for me but I am on my way and believe the best is yet to come.

In 2013, I was introduced to Crystal Andrus Morissette CEO & Founder at The SWAT Institute. My journey began with the siStarhood of S.W.A.T.  The valleys and mountains in my life have taken me to a place of searching and questioning. It was in one of those valleys I started believing in myself and one thought at a time I learned to begin again. 

This JOURNEY has created many CHANGES in my life and what I want from it. I have found my voice and platform to EVOLVE  as a woman.  Most importantly I began to experience a SAFE PLACE to stand up and lift up other women along the way who stood beside me, encouraged me and bloom.

I am on this path for myself, but I am not by myself.

I am taking longer than some others to find out what I want to do with my life or what to do with it when I find it LOL,  I am 59; but I am here NOW!

the S.W.A.T. All the seeds that have been planted with my desires, PASSION, and dreams have blossomed into a FREEDOM, PEACE, and place of HOPE in me I have not experienced in a very long time. I encourage those of you who are ready to become the woman you have always wanted to be to join Institute and SHINE!!!