STORIES FROM READERS

This space is reserved for your stories – how have you faced challenges and dealt with life’s lemons? How have you transformed difficulties and found or created something better? What painful circumstances have been your “blessings in disguise”?

Please send your short story to me (DrJ@LemonAidCounseling.com), and I will consider it for inclusion here. Thanks!

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says.
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. In it, Jobs describes how some of the worst moments of his life -- what one might call the sourest lemons -- turned into the best possible outcomes. This is similar to the concept of The Farmer's Horse on the Stories for Understanding page.

Joanne Harris is a hairdresser for Hollywood TV and film. Average in stature, she was an easy target for a violent attack, but after the third such incident, she was determined never to be a victim again. After studying martial arts, hand-to-hand military combat and boxing, she won several competitions, and then went on to create Lemon-Aid for others by developing a new women’s self-defense and personal fitness system she calls Urban KnockOut™.

Morgan Leslie Segal was a talented, sensitive young woman who took her own life in 1996, at age 29. Her parents, businessman Robert Segal and psychologist Jeanne Segal, turned their grief and loss into the gift of assistance to others. The resulting website, Helpguide.org, receives 400,000 visitors each month, seeking information on 170 topics in Mental Health, Healthy Aging, and Elder Care.