Personal Narrative: I Am Aaeesha Peace

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I am Aaeesha Peace and I’m Twenty-two years old. This my story.
I've always been this, " find a way to get it yourself" kinda girl. After leaving for college when I was eighteen; I made a choice to try life for myself. Spending two years in college trying to figure out who I am. I realised, I left home before knowing the answer to that really important question. Because I knew, my childhood home wouldn't allow me to express myself the way that I wanted to. I created this reality of determination and hustle, Kevin Gate’s song “Get It Out The Mud” was my anthem. I juggled being a full-time student and a full time employee . I managed to maintain the dean's list for about seventy-five percent of my time spent in College. My last semester, the
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I remember waking up every morning crying and in complete distress. At times I experienced, consciously being unconscious. Almost two years later, I managed to land a pretty good job that required me to go away for a month of training . In that month I was able to dig deep into myself and figure out my next steps. Because now, my top priority was getting myself out of my current situation and completely on my own. Moving into my first apartment I felt a sense of triumph . After a year of working in that college town I pulled myself together. And I was ready to leave and return to my hometown. So, I decided to leave my life in that college town and start the blueprint to my adulthood. I lived with my sister for the first five months to save up some cash. I think we bonded because we were able to identify our similarities and share our past emotions about our childhood. Growing up we did not get along very well and our father struggled with a destructive drug addiction. Spending only five months with her, made the years before obsolete. Fast Forward seven months later I'm in my own brand new studio apartment. In January when I moved in I set out to start healing from my childhood and all of challenges I experienced in the past. So I dug deeper into my spirituality and witnessed my life transform. I found that my life’s purpose is to help others heal through encouragement and by way of

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