Kim Galliher

Author, Freelance Writer, Spiritual Teacher

So the thing about writing About Me pages is well, they are all about you. Or are supposed to sum up in a short amount of space these wonderful, sparkly things about you that make people ooh and ahh. Well, as someone who has never done well tooting their own horn in the company of others that just isn’t something I’m good at.

What I can do is tell you that once upon a time I had the courage of a lion (or maybe I was just young and stupid, lol) but then I struck out on my own and suddenly the world closed in on me and I became fearful. Funny how a taste of freedom, stepping out in a brave new world can feel more confining, but it’s true. I suddenly felt afraid. I felt judged. I felt alone. Then I made poor choices and ended up in a bad marriage which destroyed my remaining self-confidence and dreams.

I had children and I poured myself into them, giving them every drop of my being.

Until my youngest went to school.

Then I thought, what about me?

Since then I’ve been on a quest to find something I was good at, something that spoke to my soul. Something that spoke to my “life purpose”.

I spent years with my head tucked down, learning this and that, reading book after book, meditating day in and out. Still afraid to do anything with what I had learned because it never seemed like enough. People judged, it was scary out there, I was alone.

But in my 48th year, a switch was flipped. I decided I would no longer be afraid. I didn’t know how that would actually manifest itself in my life but I made that decision at the end of 2018. I chose COURAGE as my intention word. I had a sigil painting commissioned for my Christmas gift from my husband that had to do with releasing fear and being courageous. I was done with fear. We were breaking up and I was moving beyond. Turns out WAY beyond.

By the time I reached 49, I travelled to Europe-London, Barcelona (love, love, love Barcelona) and Rome. I booked a cruise for just myself and my oldest daughter. I formed an LLC and opened an online spiritual school with 4 other teachers and 5 more on the way as I write this. And together with Anissa Cosby, I published my first book, Journaling by the Moon.

None of those things would have been done by the old me. None. Of. Them.

So, I guess instead of telling you titles and accolades that is the accomplishment I most want to share. Being rid of fear. It took 48 long years but it is behind me.