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Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

—Helen Keller, American author and political activist

Successful women don’t deny the pain of their past, they own up to it and use it to their advantage. Like a cloak of armor that shields us from future trauma, each of our unique stories creates in us a woman who is stronger, wiser, and more resourceful—not despite what she has gone through, but because of it.

Your Fairy Tale

Think of any fairy tale and we all think about the unattainable process of living happily every after, but if you think about it, those fairy-tale women might have earned their happily ever after. Each of them had to deal with some curse or trial that was placed on them. Goldilocks fled the grizzlies; Rapunzel had bad hair days and people using her locks as a ladder—ouch; Sleeping Beauty was afflicted with disabling somnolence; and so on. Those fairy tales might have been told only once and never again if someone had said, “There once was a girl named Cinderella. She was born into riches and then married the prince. The end!” It doesn’t work that way. We are interested in stories of challenges because they share a lesson. We know how it worked out for the Disney princesses, so let’s see how it goes for us.