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In the middle of a painful divorce, Jenn Hobby embarked on an adventure that helped her let go of the past and embrace the future. Here’s how she did it.
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One night this past May, I was having dinner with two of my best friends, Elena and April. Over slices of vegetable pizza, we talked about our plans for the summer and how we wanted to make changes in our lives. Each of us had been going through some tough times. I was in the process of getting a divorce from my husband of five years, and every part of my life felt jumbled and out of place.
It became clear that we all needed a change. During a lull in the conversation, April said, “Why don’t we go skydiving?” Elena and I loved the idea, and.gif) the three of us spent the next few weeks looking into it. By then, even if I’d wanted to, there was no way I could back out, because once my coworkers heard about our plan—I’m a cohost on a local morning radio talk show—they decided to broadcast my jump! At first my friends and I had thought of the dive as a bonding experience, but as the date approached, the whole endeavor became much more emotional. For me it marked the day that I would start a more positive, self-reliant existence. That’s why—in the June 24 box on my calendar—I wrote, “Jump into your new life.”
The night before the dive, we had dinner—again, just the three of us. Elena suggested writing down all the negative things we wanted to throw out of our lives when we jumped out of the plane. She took a journal out of her purse and tore out three pages. Each of us wrote a lengthy list, and mine was full of feelings that had been keeping me down: resentment, fear of failure and the need for other people’s approval. We then passed the papers around. On the back of each page, we jotted down what we wanted the other two—our best friends—to leave behind. The things Elena and April wrote for me were more specific and honest than I had been with myself. That message was just the reinforcement I needed.
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