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Empty Nest? MidLife? A Next Chapter Story...
You raised the kids. You built the life. And now the kids are grown, the house is quiet, and you don't know who you are in it.
What if finding your way home to yourself begins with a journey you never expected to take?.
More than a story. It's an invitation to go on an adventure where you will see your own life differently and discover the wisdom and possibility that may have been there all along.
G.I.F.T.S. A Voyage Home to Yourself is a fictional voyage through five mysterious islands, each revealing a gift that can help you rediscover who you are, what you've learned, and what might be waiting for you next.
The Messy Middle
What No One Tells You About Healing After Serious Injury
The story of how a simple fall turned into a 10-hour surgery and a fight to save my leg.
After a severed artery and a terrifying drug-resistant infection, my recovery journey was anything but ordinary. This story covers the harsh reality of medical trauma and how I navigated the first eight months of a very long road back to health.
This is not a polished story of recovery told from the other side. It's about what it feels like to live inside the mess of it. The uncertainty, frustration, humor, and unexpected moments of healing.
And sometimes... you have to look a little ridiculous before you figure something out.
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Chapter 13 Chicken Wings (audio)
A Note from Elaine
I didn't arrive at this work through one dramatic moment. I spent years raising four children, building businesses, and caring for my mother, and the whole time, I overlooked my own potential.
Along the way, I was a teacher, a director of education, and eventually a health coach, always drawn to the same question, just wearing different clothes: how do we actually change, and what does it take to help someone else do it?
It took me a long time to see all of it as connected. One mission, underneath everything, ties it all together: to help people discover the gifts they've been given, live with purpose, and create a life that matters.
I'm a mother of four, a grandmother of ten, and a great-grandmother of two, married more than fifty years to the same man who's watched every version of me become this one.
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About G.I.F.T.S. A Voyage Home to Yourself
Come sail through the five islands yourself, one chapter at a time as you read or listen to me narrate it.
Go Deeper with the G.I.F.T.S. method
The GIFTS Method is the framework underneath five key areas of living your life on purpose.
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