Becca’s Story
Looking at Becca’s life now you would never the imagine the road it took her to get to this place in her life. Becca is a sought after inspirational speaker, and inspired author, her profound insights are changing lives. She is an ambassador for the “Power in You” Youth Program, and serves as Ambassador for the Statue of Responsibility, along other inspiring individuals like Jack Canfield.
Becca’s successes also include serving as Mrs. Utah US Continental 2005/2006. She is the founder of Women Supporting Women.biz and the owner of three successful businesses and a trained Rapid Eye Tech. R.E.T. is a powerful technology used for emotional trauma and stress relief. And she now has the popular blog Life On Purpose.
Her inspirational true story in her own words:
My grandfather was a criminal on the run. He died leaving my mother alone on the streets in her early teens. She did not even know what her real last name was. She was afraid, she was cold and she was hungry. Then a woman offered her food and shelter in exchange for a few favors. As a result of this my mom became a teenage prostitute addicted to drugs and alcohol.
A few years later she married my father. She did not want children. So when she had me and I was born with a heart defect it was more than she could bare. She didn’t know how to cope. I was told that when I would cry she would beat me over the head with a wooden spoon until I stopped.
6 years and 2 sisters later, and after much neglect and being exposed to all forms abuse. My mother had enough. One day after my father left for work she said to me, Becky get your sisters and I will take you girls to the zoo. This was so exciting. This was unlike her. I could’t wait to go to the zoo and actually do something fun with my mother.
However after we arrived at the city where the zoo was, she asked if we would rather go on an airplane ride. Yeah! things were getting even better. We flew to another state, and when we got off the plane a woman met us. Years later I would learn that this was the same woman who had offered my mother room and board if she would do a few favors for her.
We went and stayed the night with this woman. The next morning we got in a car and drove for a long time out into the middle of the California dessert. My mom stopped at a poor isolated community. She got us out of the car and then pointing to some puppies she said
“Play with the puppies and I will be back in a few hours.” My mom never came back. People often ask “What happened next?”
You know I don’t remember much, I am sure that is a blessing in disguise. I do know that when they found us, they said we were wearing only our underwear; we were skin and bones and covered with lice.
My aunt and uncle were the ones who found us I remember when they drove into the poor community. Everyone was wondering who these people were. The man came up to me, he knew my name he kept calling me Becky. I was looking at him strangely and confused.
I wondered who he was and how he knew my name. Then you know how you see on TV when someone’s memory comes back woosh-wooh-woosh-that’s how it felt, This horrible flood of emotions came over me I started screaming hysterically I want my mom I want my mom I want my mom.
We were eventually returned to our dad. I wish I could say that we lived happily ever after. However the next 5 years of my life brought me even greater challenges. I eventually ended up in a Foster home.
During my teens I had no self esteem, I was tall, gangly and uncoordinated, I had bushy eyebrows that would give Godzilla a run for his money and I wore bottle thick glasses. I felt like I didn’t belong anywhere.
I was scared, I hated life, I could not see a purpose for living. At age 13 I tried to take my life.
One day as I got off the school bus, I noticed another bus pulling into the drop off area and it was going too fast. The bus driver was paying attention to rowdy kids in the back. I knew all I had to do was wait for him to get close enough and then step in front of the bus and it would be all over.
So that’s what I did, As the bus approached I waited for just the right moment and just as I stepped forward a kid grabbed me from behind and said “ Hey! What are you trying to do kill yourself?” “Yeah, mind your own business!”
The next thing I know I am in the school counselor’s office. This was a turning point in my life. See the counselor asked me a very profound question, one that began to change the direction of my life.
She asked me if I had a dream. “A dream I said are you kidding? What good would a dream do for someone like me?” She told me to look inside and find my dream. She told me that what I was going through was tough, but it would pass and when it did I would have a future if I would only choose it. And she was right.
Eleanor Roosevelt said the same thing, she said “
The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.”
That’s what my counselor was telling me, the future was mine if I would only dare to dream. And that’s what I want to share with you, never let go of your dreams. And if you think its gone or you don’t have one, GO LOOKING FOR IT!
Not long after this remember sitting at a church devotional, the speaker was a beautiful dark haired lady, I don’t remember her message. I do remember Her demonstrating to us how as a young girl she liked to pretend like she was a fly and buzz around her bedroom. But other than that I don’t remember her message.
I do remember how she made me feel, I laughed for the first time, and I thought I don’t know how, but I must, I will get through this and then one day I want to help others. offer them the same hope. And every time I stand before a groups…. I remember that day.
Back then I didn’t recognize where those feelings came from but now I KNOW why I felt the way I did that night. It was the Holy Ghost bearing witness to me of the truthfulness of God’s power to have all things work to our good. That night he Holy Ghost was baring witness to me what I needed to know and about me and my future.
It was only a few years ago, that I won the title of Mrs. Utah, and started speaking and writing books. I know that I would not be doing what I am doing now if I hadn’t prayed, asked and then backed it up with action, these words, “I am ready to do what I came to this planet to do, please use me.”
I heard it once said “When the prayer of your mouth matches the prayer of your heart, this is when God can really use you.” It was when this happened for me that God really started directing my life. I am now called “The Purpose Finder” I teach others how to turn pain into purpose and passion. I believe all of my life experiences have made me who I am. And while they were hard at the time I was going through them, I would not change a thing. Some of my favorite books are: The Holy Bible, “The Prayer of Jabez” ” Beyond Jabez” and the “Dream Giver” by Bruce Wilkinson and “The Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren and anything by Joyce Meyer.
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