Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but rather feeling the fear and doing what you want or need to do anyway. Karen grew up in a lot of fear, the fear of a doomsday cult, the fear of not fitting in because her household was religiously divided, and ultimately the fear for her own life due to a cult policy against blood transfusions when surgery was required. Ultimately Karen’s courage would win out and she would work her own process, a “beautiful process” as she refers to it, one that would get her where she wanted to go despite a lack of help or healthy modeling from the adults around her. Karen is shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses, but she kept going through it all and built a life for herself, largely by herself.
The songs that Karen chose to represent her journey are Broken by lovelytheband and Unstoppable by Sia.
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From one Sister, Esq. to another, thanks for sharing your story!