Why I Teach Option:
Beginning at a young age my life seemed challenging. I grew up in a household raised by two unhappy parents, experienced their tumultuous divorce, wound up pregnant at 18, and decided to rear my child without a father. Believing I brought shame to my extended family and isolation to myself, I began my new young life as a mother full of concern over the damage I had already caused my child, and the fear that I would not have what it took to make her life a good one.

Despite my challenging circumstances, the biggest struggle for me by far was my own inner critic, developed early and sharpened with practice over time. As my life proceeded, my fears over believing I had failed to create the proper life expanded. My judgment of myself and my situation increased, and so too did my feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. The result was my life took a downward spiral into what I didn’t know then was depression, which would continue for many more years to come.

Frightened by my emotional state, not knowing how to move beyond it, I began a desperate pursuit seeking endless ways to help myself out of the abyss I too often find myself in. Through my search I discovered a variety of encouraging ideas and healing methods that educated me and temporarily uplifted me along the way. But it wasn’t until my 37th year that I discovered a self-help process that would put an end to my bouts of depression forever. 

It was in my 37th year that I discovered the Option Method. I finally found the knowledge I had been seeking that put the power of my happiness into my own hands. Option provided me with the answers I had sought without knowing, beginning with offering loving kindness to myself. This unique questioning process trusted and enabled me to look inside to find my own answers and dismantle the limiting beliefs that were causing unhappiness. There was finally something I could do, a way to understand the reason for all the pain and despair I had been through, and once and for all, a way to move beyond it.

Learning about Option empowered me to create the life I had always longed to live, that happy, joy-filled life, where I love myself. Knowing how to use the Option Method has enabled me to consistently be able to help myself out of any unhappiness I encounter. Using this new way of approaching myself and discovering my own internal wisdom empowered me to examine each area of my life that I sought to change with a skill that has liberated and transformed me. That was 16 years ago and my world has changed astronomically. My long-standing pal depression no longer stands beside me threatening to rear his ugly head. I have gathered new friends; confidence, hope, kindness and acceptance, which have grown and expanded in my life in ways that I could have only dreamed of years before. Since learning about Option and using it in my life, I have never been without the support I needed, or the loving understanding I had so longed for. 

Looking back now I understand that my unhappiness didn’t arise because of my challenging circumstances, nor the mysterious feelings of depression that seemed to come unbidden out of nowhere, but from my own unloving internal critic, that I employed regularly as a way to help myself. If I had known then, what I know now, I could have spared myself many years of fear and sorrow. However, I am grateful that I was lucky enough to learn about Option when I did.

This is why I am here offering Option to you. It is my wish that you too can transform your life in whatever ways you are seeking, with a surety that grows stronger with time and use.

There is no need to endure all that we suffer.  There is a way to help yourself no matter what your condition, and in so doing help every other human you encounter, by learning about this remarkable process called the Option Method.