Given that for much of my life I lived trying to look and be perfect, I do not want to come across that way any longer. Being at this midlife stage of life, I am so over that type of pressure and I have reached a point where I no longer want to pretend, for I am not a child anymore. 

Do you ever open your camera roll and look back to see where you were one, two, or three years ago? I like to do this regularly as it helps keep my life and growth in good perspective.

When I was young I remember hearing about the sex scandals occurring within the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America. I remember being disturbed that these organizations were hiding predators and I was naive to believe that the same was not happening within the Mormon Church, that my own abuser was being protected.