Dream Big Stories
Lisa Graham is an inspirational writer, life coach, motivational speaker, and globe-trotter whose passion is to help others to find happiness and meaning their daily lives. A political activist at heart, Lisa would like to empower more women to run for political office as a way to create positive change in the world. You can find her on the Madam President Project.
Living my dreams has been anything but a linear path, and the journey has been full of surprises along the way. The one consistent thread in my dream journey has been joy, and I have become a firm believer that the simple experience of feeling joy in our bodies, and moving in the direction of that joy, can lead us to our dreams.
The impetus behind my big dream of writing and publishing my first best-selling book has always been to make a difference for others, especially women, by telling the story of how I healed from the traumatic rape and stalking that made my early 20s a living hell. This Saturday, I am blessed with the opportunity to speak at “Walk A Mile in Her Shoes,” a fundraiser for victims of sexual assault.
Last Friday night, I watched the movie Miss Representation, which talks about how women are misrepresented and objectified by the media. It was a sobering, powerful, and a reminder of what we as women go up against sometimes, confronted with impossible ideals of beauty in the modeling world and fashion industries that most “normal” women will never achieve. […]
No one ever said that living your big dream was always going to be easy! And yet those who have done it are here to remind you that it is always worth it.
I have been tested so many times on the road to living my biggest dreams. I have been through a few of those tests in these past few weeks, and just kept walking through the fire!