MY LIFE: BRIDGE BY BRIDGE

If asked, everyone can identify a metaphor for their lives: collections of trophies, thirty thousand twitter followers, volunteer of the year for decades. My life metaphor revolves around bridges. A Saskatchewan girl, I grew up far from any life altering bridges, but by some bizarre twist of fate, bridges have defined how I see the world. My bridge phobia often left me blubbering incoherently or blacking out in full panic attack. Follow my quest to understand the debilitating nature of fear as I struggle to regain control over it. Whatever troubled waters, danger, threat, disease, or conflict my life-bridge straddled, I have learned – no matter how terrifying the crossing - to trust the safety waiting on the opposite shore. For others fighting similar demons, I give you full permission to laugh out loud, in hopes my journey will inspire you to defeat your own bridge devils.