Like many children when the “What do you want to be when you grow up,” brought a multitude of answers from Astronaut (long before Sally Ride!) to Actress to Mother to the one I wanted to be the longest was teacher of the blind and deaf.
I read a biography of Annie Sullivan, teacher to Helen Keller, and it sparked something deep within me. I wanted to be like her. I wanted to reach out and into the lives of people who were separated from the world because of the lack of visual and sound light.
While I gave up that specific vocational goal, I think as a life coach, I do reach out and into the lives of people who are separated from light: and oftentimes that leaks into not being able to see or hear life at its finest due to blocks in belief or hope or love or joy. I help people to re-discover those sensual experiences we relish in childhood.
I am also an actress and a mother, so I didn’t do so bad, did I?
I love this prompt and question. Makes me smile.
So – when you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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