Out of the Shadows

By Sara London

Out of the Shadows was written as I was going through a transformation in my life; one from being un-healthy, un-happy, and overweight to now being happy, healthy and confident. While writing Out of the Shadows I became a new woman, strong, powerful and more assure of me. I found freedom from losing weight and eating healthy. I want others to know that yes transformations can be painful but when you come out the other side they are very uplifting and fulfilling.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491825167

Sara London

Sara lives on Nantucket Island. She is busy with her herbal business and working on her third writing project. Sara is looking forward to her next adventure and seeing what the next chapter holds. She continues to keep up with her health and exercise regime, to stay healthy. This is Sara’s second book.

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© 2013 by Sara London. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/17/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4918-2515-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-2516-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013918089

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Cover design: Scarlet Letter Press, Salem, MA

Back cover design: Robert Foster Fine Art, Nantucket, MA

Contents

About The Book

Introduction

Chapter One Spiraling into Darkness

Chapter Two A New Beginning

Chapter Three Becoming Fierce

Chapter Four Dancing in the Light

To everyone who has been through a transformation and was reborn, especially those who thought they would not make it. Cheers! Here is to your new life.

About The Book

Out of the Shadows was written as I was going through a transformation in my life; one from being un-healthy, un-happy, and overweight to now being happy, healthy and confident. While writing Out of the Shadows I became a new woman, strong, powerful and more assure of me. I found freedom from losing weight and eating healthy. I want others to know that yes transformations can be painful but when you come out the other side they are very uplifting and fulfilling.

Introduction

As I gaze upon the moon and stars, I am immediately transported to a time where I feel relaxed and free of all fear. My dear, it is dark now, but soon it will be light. Yes, you will see the sun again and be free.

I am now a forty-two-year-old woman who is recently single; lives on Nantucket, an island off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and has totally transformed her life in the past four years—all without surgery; medication, except for my seizures; diets; or camps for dieting and all by myself.

Yes, you can lose weight with just diet, exercise, self-restraint, and motivation—oh yes, and tons of support from others. I’ve lost one hundred pounds, gotten my health under control, begun to control my seizures, and started to exercise, and I’m publishing my second book.

My first book is a children’s story about a whale with seizures, Wally the Whale: A Tale about a Whale with Seizures by Sara Manning. I wrote Wally the Whale while I was struggling with my seizures, and my friend Dani Henke, illustrated them. I am now publishing this book as a way of completing my self-transformation. I’ve taken a long time to get here and find it necessary to help others to see that they can heal themselves and find themselves when they are lost.

When I began this weight-loss journey four years ago, I thought I would reconnect with my body; I didn’t realize that I would be rediscovering myself, my body, my desires, and my soul; ending my marriage; beginning a new life; and finding self-esteem as the cure for all that ailed me. I didn’t realize four years ago when I made a simple goal to get my health back that I would be here now, having lost a hundred pounds, being more confident, experiencing fewer seizures, having written and published a children’s book, and working on another.

A simple goal of being a force to be reckoned with was my motivation. It never occurred to me that this journey would alter my life. I simply thought I was putting those thoughts out in the universe and that it might happen. I thought that just by thinking them, my wishes could happen.

I had gotten used to being let down and to my body letting me down. I wondered if my goals might not come to fruition. I thought I would be stuck on the medication merry-go-round, unable to get off—that this had become my life and that my brain and the seizures would continue to dominate my life. I was not sure that I would be able to harness the power inside myself to conquer the demons in my brain, let alone my body. Back then, I didn’t think I could accomplish all of this. But I did.

To understand the title of this book, you need to understand me and, more important, my transformation over the last four years. I have come full circle now. I once was the girl who would say and do anything I wanted and be wild. I’d run down the beach naked, dance in front of strangers without a care in the world, perform at school talent contests with no dance routines prepared except the ones in my head, and laugh for no reason. Then I got lost; I got off my path, got lost in the shadows, in the darkness. And now I’m finally free and out of my cocoon. I have transformed like a butterfly, and I’m ready to take on the world