The Decision to Heal

Is healing a decision? We think it is. Within the pages of this book we take you on a journey of 6 unique pathways from suffering to love. We understand the courage it takes to make the decision to want to feel better and have happier, healthier experiences in your life. We also know and believe there is an abundance of support if you're open to receiving it. This book is our collective mission to save lives, transform limiting ideas and inspire your drive to be better. This book is for those who still suffer in silence. Healing doesn't have to be done alone, so let this book and our stories be a guide to supporting you in your own decision to heal.

About the Authors

Nicole Smith is a born and raised California girl currently transplanted on the Coast of Virginia. She is a proud wife, mom, foodie and ocean lover! Nicole is also a Military Veteran turned Life Coach and Mental Wellness Advocate. She suffered from an incredibly low self-esteem much of her life and found it impossible to love herself in order to feel "good enough" in just about every relationship. While serving our country, she silently fought a battle to remain in control of the anxiety and depression that overcame her. Finally hitting rock bottom was the breakthrough where her own transformation journey began. It was her blessing in disguise and led her to discovering her true self-worth and how to heal her life. Her path to healing transformed her so deeply that she decided to retire from her successful military career. Connecting to a new purpose, she created Navigate Your Freedom, and is now serving the military community in a new way by helping women who are burnt out from the military lifestyle to become just as committed to themselves as they are their country.

Josh Friedberg is a writer, essayist, scholar, music historian, tutor, storyteller, teacher, singer, and songwriter who lives in Chicago. He has won multiple awards from the Illinois Woman's Press Association's (IWPA) annual Communications Contests, including first place designations for the personal essays ("On Crying and Music") and online feature articles ("Racializing Rock: The '60s and the White Sounds of 'Pet Sounds'"), categories. He has published over twenty articles, including as a columnist at the Good Men Project website and contributor to PopMatters, the web magazine on popular culture. He holds a master's degree in English from Northeastern Illinois University and has also been a radio DJ. He recently designed and taught an English course on contemporary writing about music that challenges conventional narratives of music and culture. He is proudly Autistic, which informs all of his work, as well as living with Bipolar Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and other disabilities, and he hopes his story inspires others to channel their creativity and know that they are not alone!

Julie Raborn is a Life Coach and Self-love Coach living on the freshwater coast of Lake Michigan in Traverse City, Michigan. She loves writing, traveling, hiking, kayaking, yoga, copious amounts of laughter and coffee, loving and inspiring people, and a deep love for all thing's scarves, vests and beanie caps! Throughout years of bullying and physical abuse, and self-destructive thoughts, beliefs and behaviors, she had a painful breaking point knowing she could no longer tolerate this way of being. She was suffering from extremely low self-esteem, no belief in herself or her worth, and was in a vicious cycle of self-loathing. She made the independent, powerful choice to leave her corporate job, sell her home and move away from everything and everyone she knew to live where she'd dreamt to live all her life-in Traverse City. She made a decision to have her own back and pave her path of deep exploration and healing through coaching and self-love. She chose to live by soul-led desires instead of staying stuck in fear, self-loathing and believing she was n

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