Two weeks ago I started taking a 10 week seminar course called “Living Powerfully”. Landmark Education promised that, “In this seminar, you’ll find yourself generating the stakes to a new or expanded game, based in what matters most to you. You’ll clear up past issues that may have stopped or limited you, and experience a new ability to meet and take on challenges, to get and stay on track with what you know is possible.”

During the first class, the instructor, Maryanne asked, “What would your life be like if you didn’t have “X” hanging over your head?”  For me, “X” was the question: “Do I have Osteoporosis?” I had been living with this fear for years but I was paralyzed, unable to deal with it.  I bought books about osteoporosis that I could not bear to read. My fear was so great, and of course, living in fear and denial created a self fulfilling prophecy.  I would end up like my mother.

I imagined my life without that doubt hanging over my head, without fear.  I felt light, free.  A whole big space would be empty in my heart, ready to be filled with something positive.  I was inspired and the next morning, I phoned the Osteoporosis Center at the Hospital for Joint Diseases and made an appointment to get checked out.