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    You Can Soar: Soar Above Life's Disappointments to Achieve Your Dreams
    You Can Soar: Soar Above Life's Disappointments to Achieve Your Dreams
    You Can Soar: Soar Above Life's Disappointments to Achieve Your Dreams
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    You Can Soar: Soar Above Life's Disappointments to Achieve Your Dreams

    By Cherise Nicole Ragland

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    "You Can Soar" is a book that will help you to discover the greatness already inside of you. It will breathe life back into every dormant dream in your heart. Begin on a step-by-step path to healing, restoration, to your destiny!
    Today is the day to start your journey. It's your Time! You Can Soar!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJan 4, 2017
    ISBN9780998305226
    You Can Soar: Soar Above Life's Disappointments to Achieve Your Dreams

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      You Can Soar - Cherise Nicole Ragland

      Preface

      You Can Soar serves to be a beacon of light to those who grew up in a dysfunctional household whether it is due to poverty, divorce, physical or sexual abuse, or an absentee parent and continue to struggle with inadequacies, low self-esteem, and a sense of loss because of the painful effects of your past. The bald eagle uses strong winds from a storm to lift it higher above the clouds. The storm actually gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. You Can Soar" will uplift and teach you how to turn your heartache into a heartbeat, take lemons and make lemonade, and allow the abrasive sandpaper of life to smooth you. There’s purpose in your pain and like an eagle, you can SOAR above it all!

      Introduction - My Story

      I am a wife, mother of three, two of them are college graduates from top schools in their fields, one a Marine. I'm an entrepreneur, a singer-songwriter, I’ve released a music cd and received an Emmy nomination for a television show I developed and produced. People that know me would consider me to be successful, talented, confident, and strong, but few know my story. I believe it’s important that we share our testimonies so that others can know that they too can overcome.

      I remember the day my mom sat me down and explained to me how I was born, the story she told me was not your ordinary birds and the bees rendition that most people have heard, mine was quite different. My new father wasn’t my real father, he actually legally adopted me when Mom married and I would permanently share his last name. My real dad I never met, the only time I actually laid eyes on him was at his funeral. I remember it like it was yesterday, at the time I was only 19 we were a young family and could barely make ends meet. Our car couldn’t make the drive so we borrowed a friend’s car and headed to Iowa.

      I arrived at his funeral and it was packed, I remember recognizing my uncle, as he was one of the pallbearers. As I entered the building, it felt like their where rocks at the bottom of my stomach. I was so nervous; the ideal that the only time I would ever lay eyes on my dad would be in a coffin is not quite how I pictured it. You see as a little girl, I would spend time daydreaming of how one day my father would come to find me. I pictured him coming through the door like Santa Clause with a huge bag filled with toys, in my dream he would give me one toy for every year he missed on my birthday and Christmas. It was a long shot, it was my dream, I just didn't realize it was more of a fantasy.

      After the ceremony, I went to the basement and shortly after I noticed several people quickly flock to the basement as if they where looking for someone, as they’re heads turned from side to side around the

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