As always, your support means the world to me. I am eternally grateful for each one of you for reading, for sending encouraging texts, and leaving comments after last week’s post about my break from blogging and social media. And I don’t mean that in the trite way it sounds, I really do mean it. My little blog community is small enough that I notice every click and see every “share this post.” You are known and I am always grateful for those that do share and comment; these seemingly innocuous tasks are actually life-giving encouragement for my creative energy!

I received many questions from my last post, which makes sense given the long break and cryptic nature of it. A spiritual awakening? WTF?

Yes.

Not a “coming to Jesus” religious awakening, it was not the dogma of organized religion—but of my spiritual self, my authentic self. So how did I get to this point? Well, I am simply not ready to share the catalyst to this story yet. I will, at some point, as it served as the inspiration for the book I wrote/am still writing to process it all. For right now, though, I will keep this story sacred until I am ready. What I am excited to begin talking about are the life-changing realizations and applicable practices I’ve incorporated into my life since this occurred.

“We can create a supportive community.”

So, where to go from here? My amazing graphic designer Melissa and I are busy working on the new website, lesleighfrank.com, which will still house most of the content from pearls on a string. I would love to hear any content areas you are especially interested to read about or topics that are near and dear to your heart. I also have the biggest favor to ask you. I am a firm believer in “putting things out there” yet I admit I used to keep many things secret if I was afraid or embarrassed of people’s possible perceptions. The expression and underlying words of, “Who do you think you are?” are soul-crushing, to say the least. I am trying to get over that in a big way, sooo my huge favor is to ask that if you have a comment or a question after a post, could you please write it in the comments section of the blog? The reason is this:

I wrote a book. And I would love to publish it someday.

“Please comment on here rather than social media.”

Publishing houses like to see reader engagement and unfortunately I cannot share private text messages, Facebook comments, or Instagram comments/direct messages, although I personally appreciate those very much. They want to see comments on my actual website. I am asking that if you do have a thought then please, please, please write it in the comments section. Not only will it help my blog grow but other people may have the same question or comment and not feel as alone. We can create a supportive community this way! I realize this request may turn some people off and please know I am not asking everyone to comment all of the time, but just to comment on here in this forum rather than return to Facebook/Instagram/email to say there what you could say here.

Let’s call it women supporting women, yes?? #thefutureisfemale