About Us — Our I Can Story of how Katie overcame distressing pain, suffering, and extreme loss. We’ve all been through pain in our lives. Your Keys to a Happy Life are Right Here!
“We’ve all be through it.” Yes, but, no one has been exactly where you are, but many have been in some of the same scrapes and unhappy places.
Why We Started My “I Can” Story
We started this blog because of this reason. God called us to take our story out to you so that you can know you are not alone. Someone has to understand because if they don’t that means you’re the only one, and then you feel like you’re on an island. Or worse, you feel like everyone is judging you.
Something to remember is that we do worry about what others think. We really want to fit in, but also we do have to learn how stop making this so central to our lives. After all, they have issues you don’t even know about. Right now, though, we want to focus on you. How can you get past all of this into a growth mindset…one that will sky-rocket your relationships with others and your career as well.
We are a group of individuals who have been through huge pain and unpalatable sadness to come out on the other side and begin to live again.
About Us and our “I Can” Story
Our leader, Katie Rue has been through so much loss that it’s a wonder how positive and uplifting she is. In one year alone, she lost so very much. It all started when she flooded her bathroom upstairs.
The water ran at full pressure the whole day and by the time her son came home from school at 3:30 the family room on the lower level was sitting in 4 inches of water throughout. It was dripping through the upstairs floor onto her couch in the living room and had flooded the bathroom and entire family room and was leaking into the basement.
With her upstairs and downstairs flooded, she hired people to come and clean the mess. As this was happening, her sister was fighting a rare form of cancer.
Cancer Threatened to Destroy
Katie was trying to do all she could to support her sister while her home was torn up and under construction. She had no showers and no sink and no flooring, only a toilet. She and her son were taking showers at neighbors houses as she was running to chemo and doctors appointments.
During this time, she herself was diagnosed with cancer, had a lumpectomy and was scheduled to begin radiation in a month. In the meantime her sister died, and her father was diagnosed with lymphoma. She was devastated. The doctors told her that her father only had a month to live, but as he worked through treatment that diagnosis proved inaccurate and luckily he lived many more years.
Looking for Peace and My “I Can” Story
Katie and her son took off the day after her sister’s funeral on a mini-vacation to visit lighthouses near Michigan. She had to get away because she needed peace. While she was on her way home, she got a phone call. Her brother had been bucked off a horse that he was racing, was life-flighted to a big hospital and had a broken pelvis not to mention some other health issues that had arisen and needed surgery.
All this happened after she had battled her first cancer and had lost her husband in an accident, and after she had been with someone who conned her out of a lot of money. So at one point, 3 out of the 6 in her immediate family had cancer of which 1 died, and the 4th family member was undergoing surgery for a broken pelvis all while living with construction inside her broken home. Symbolic really and she felt broken.
There are many more losses she has suffered, and the rest of them you can read about in our blog, but these are the ones that happened that one fateful year.
Survival and Our “I Can” Story
This story is so hard to tell and brings tears to our eyes every time we tell it.
How did she survive all of this, and how is she now thriving? It wasn’t easy, but it was very simple. The answer is Jesus Christ wrapped His arms around her and lifted her up. She began reading her Bible each and every day and getting to know God.
Our team is all about uplifting faith in our Lord. You will never find peace until you find Jesus.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. Fro now on, you do know him and have seen him. John 14:6-7
Find out more here in our My “I Can” Story Blog.
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Don’t be an “I Can’t Story” statistic! Decide right now NOT to be a negative statistic for mental health.
Here are some important stats for you…
In the United States in 2019, an estimated 51.5 million adults aged 18 or older were diagnosed with mental illness. This number constitutes 20.6% of all U.S. adults. (Samhsa, 2019)
Mental illness is higher among women (24.5%) than men (16.3%). (Samhsa, 2019)
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