By the end of 2023, at age 41, I wrapped up an online citizen's initiative charity I had run for four years in my hometown.

I started it to support people struggling financially—people like me. Because at the end of 2019, I hit the lowest financial point in my life.

We entered a debt resolution program and, due to its restrictions, I wasn’t allowed to start a business for 3 to 5 years. Plus I wouldn't have any money to help others anymore, getting the bare minimum to live of ourselves.

Those limitation deeply affected me—

not just because of my own situation, but because I could no longer help others financially (even when it always had been small gestures), something I had always valued. So I found a different way.

I created a Facebook page where people in need could be connected with others in our community who were in a position to help.

I didn’t start it to benefit myself, even though I sometimes feared others might assume that, but thankfully, people saw and felt the sincerity of my intention.

To my surprise, it took off faster than I could have imagined.

Within just a week or so, the charity was running at full speed. It grew quickly, and I was fueled by the joy and gratitude of everyone involved—those who gave and those who received.

But as time went on, I hit a crossroads. As the charity had been expanding, I didn’t have the full support system I truly needed to keep it going.

I faced a difficult choice: scale up without the support or step away.

After months of pushing forward despite burnout, asking myself what the right choice would be, I made a radical decision.

To stop.
To finally put my well-being first.

To choose me.
Maybe for the first time in my life.
And I did it... at 41.

I felt guilty.
Guilty for the people I could no longer help, and for the potential lives I wouldn’t impact.
But deep down, I knew this was the path that would eventually lead to something even greater.

Now, 15 months later, that vision is still alive.

I'm not where I want to be yet, but I've discovered things on this healing journey that I know can help others—especially those who are still totally stuck in many areas of life, and can't figure out how to make a true change.

Originally, I wanted to help people learn how to catch their own fish instead of just handing them fish. 

But I also realized: I needed to learn that myself first.
Because poverty often runs far deeper than just “get a job.” There is a much deeper reason why people are struggeling to catch their own fish.

So I went inward.

I explored the roots of my emotional pain, and mental health struggles.
And through this inner work, I began uncovering the real answers—answers that, for decades, no one else had been able to give me.

Not the faith leaders.
Not the therapists.
Not the online gurus.

No one had ever helped me unlock the "stuckness" I carried for so long. Until I started to do the real inner healing. And then the answers began to come. Even from places I looked before. Because now I had the right keys to get to the answers.

If you’re feeling stuck right now—in your finances, relationships, mental health, career, or sometimes even your physical body—I want you to know: There is hope. When you heal the root, everything begins to change.

I’m still on this journey.
But for the first time in my life, I feel 100% sure that real lasting transformation is happening.

And I want to take you with me.

Let’s get unstuck together!

Let’s build lives of purpose, freedom, and peace—starting from within.

With love and hope,

Denise