It's difficult for me to accept that I was abandoned by my mother in an alleyway when I was less than one day old. The painful reality of knowing that the moment I was born I was rejected is something that I am no longer running from. In sharing my own emotional trauma, I hope to encourage others to take a look inward and begin to face that latent pain that's deep within, in order to break through and emerge to a higher state of consciousness and a better you.