Who is She? Will the Real Hope Huggs Please Stand Up

For those of you who wonder who Hope Huggs is, this is my re-introduction written for @ecotrain, as they'd like you to know their passengers better...

So for the people who'd like to know

Who is She?

Source: edited this Nikki Graham clip from this video

This is who I am today, it might be different next week, next month, hell it will even be minutely different even later today, but this is today's snapshot...

Well, my real name is Helen Doherty, but the Hope Huggs personna was meant to be the better side of me, my pen name, for a whole lot of books that are still in the process of being produced, part of the one day idea pile.

Although it didn't work out quite like that, as what I have shared on Steemit this past year or so has been a rather warts and all and it ended up being totally me.

When I first made an appearance on Steemit, I was still married. Well technically I still am, but I will be putting wheels in motion to change that status very soon. But I am separated, soon to be divorced.

My steemit posts charted the breakup, and realizing that a lot of that relationship consisted of was emotional abuse, from both sides to be fair and the agonizing decision to move on.

Not the easiest of decisions or outcomes, as being a single parent is hard, although I kind of knew what it was like before, as didn't get a lot of help anyway.

So my fellow Steemians put up with a lot of rawness of emotion, especially in the form of poetry and anger. And a lot of posts about seeking happiness, beating depression and loving trees.

2018

Cut to 2018, I wrote an ebook about Steemit and how I earned a living from it for two months, following some dedication and focus and that did really well and sold over 2000 copies. I don't know if over 2000 people have joined Steemit since, but there have been a fair few.

It has also propelled me into the world of internet marketing and new income streams that allow me to get off benefits and make my own way in the world. I hope to inspire and help others to the same.

I also have lofty ambitions to start up the Hope Bank Project (read about the idea behind that here), when I can invest in it to make sure that account's votes can make a difference to people in need of a little financial help to get out of whatever situation, they are in. I had this mad idea to make a million and give it away and this is how I plan to make that aspiration come true. This is something I want to have put into action by the end of this year.

But first, I need to get my own house in order and pay off my own debts, which I will be able to do once the SBD rises again (it will, I have every faith in it). And make sure I can support me and my two beautiful girls in the style we have become accustomed to.

More About What Makes Me Tick

I am on a path of continuous self-improvement and seeking meaning, purpose and helping people fulfills me. It is great to be in a position where I am able to do this every day and it also means redefining who I am too, which has thrown up a few surprises and new friends along the way.

The best thing about this year has been discovering my freedom and having no restrictions on my decisions, which has really enabled the above opportunities to open up, as I got to think about what I wanted, not constantly trying and failing to find something that would match two people's goals that turned out to be poles apart.

On the spiritual side of things, I am interested in finding out more about my ancestors and have bought a DNA test to see where my ancestors spring from. I am a mudblood Brit, so I could have any amount of different origins and I'm curious to see what it finds out. Maybe I'm an alien haha.

But I am of the opinion that deities that we are all worship are essentially, all the same, just whispers that have traveled across the seas and developed into major religions.

When you look closely at religions, you can see the same stories in different words, stolen from what they now deem pagan sources. To find true spirituality I think you need to look more at the ancient civilizations, or at least times before religion ripped the world apart.

Sources of peace and tranquillity seem to emanate from nature itself and finding spots that are sacred to us, like hearing the whispering wisdom of the trees, or the sound of a creek caressing your soul is where our centers lie, in my opinion.

Spirituality and religion is a personal decision and as long as that decision is yours, not something expected or imposed on you, then that is all good. I will respect and accept that, as I would expect in return too in an ideal world.

At the moment, I am rather enjoying being part of the 100 days Poetry Challenge and reading people's entries and they are reawakening my creative side, which seems to be overpowered by the work side this last couple of months. I have written a poem, but for once I don't want to publish that one, not yet anyway. I will choose another subject, so its working - the creativity is stirring.

I also write the FAB journal, which charts my (ahem) daily journey, but I kind of failed miserably on one of the tasks I set myself this month aka doing dishes every day, so I have not posted for a week and we have eaten out 3 days this week. But I do have a new plan regarding this, which I will share in the next FAB post later today, although a dishwasher would be nice.

My lesson learned is that goals need to be more aligned with what I need to improve right now, not what I think should do. I need to majorly improve in the area of spoken conversation. I have some ideas on how to improve that, but it will also need some research too, as it just doesn't seem to happen naturally. If only I could get some of this writing prowess to come out of my mouth, that'd be a start.

Okay, so that is a snapshot of me at this current moment in time, bit like this one....

@hopehuggs <3

Ps sorry about the video, but Nikki always made me crack up. I think that was last Big Brother I ever watched.

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