What do the words intention and expectation mean to you? For most, they represent an aim, a plan, and how we expect the events in our lives to unfold. Yet, it’s no secret that life has a way of dramatically changing at a moment’s notice, which shifts our expectations and intentions. For Tara Parsons, revealing this great truth started on an icy mountain road and ended in a car accident that dramatically changed her life.

Each week, I ask women to be vulnerable, tell their stories, and offer each of us a perspective that we can apply to our own growth. However, it wouldn’t be fair, nor vulnerable, if I didn’t deep dive into a time and place where my own life revolution was in full swing. And yet, it’s a story that I walked through from the outside in. The story belongs to my fourteen-year-old daughter, Madison. A story of facing a life-altering surgery at the age of nine, finding her way through medical turmoil and life without a vital organ, the lessons she taught me, and the realization that both of us found our purpose in moments neither of us was confident we had the strength to survive.

Is it possible to find the woman you are meant to be inside your most challenging and defining story? Can self-love be born out of everything rapidly falling apart? Those are the life-altering questions that Priyal Levine faced as she found herself examining whether she married for the right reasons and if she had the strength to bravely walk through her husband’s frightening, life-threatening medical crisis. As she stood outside of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on Election Day, she swiftly came to realized that the life revolution she needed was being handed to her one painstaking hour at a time. Take a deep dive with Danielle and Priyal as they decision finding yourself inside of fear.