Jamie Lynn Sigler

And it was like...

oh my God, I am ready to just share all the things that I have felt such shame about and such guilt about.

And knowing that if this is a story that I can put in someone's hands of giving hopefully a reader an opportunity to see where they can offer themselves grace and forgiveness and

and love and feel seen and give them hope and maybe acceptance around circumstances that they can't change in their lives and gratitude for the things that happened to them and knowing that it all brings them to who they are today.

It felt like writing a memoir then had a purpose beyond just sharing my story, but something that I could give to other people through reliving my experience.

Absolutely.

So And So It Is was the first tattoo I ever got on my wrist.

And I got it because it was a time in my life where I all of a sudden felt like I found sort of a foundation of faith of something that I could cling to and come to.

I was coming out of probably one of the darker times of my life where I just felt completely untethered and completely lost and completely out of hope.

And what fell in my lap was a friend and a life coach and a spiritual practice that just made me feel all of a sudden connected and alive and acceptance.

What I learned was the most important step in any healing process in life in general.

And that acceptance doesn't mean you have to like what is.

It doesn't mean that you have to agree or even be okay with it.

But the truth of the matter is,

it's here, it's happening.

It is what it is.

And we can't change it.

And the only way to move forward to only way to have any sort of healing around anything in your life is just to accept it.

And so learning that acceptance didn't mean that I had to like the fact that I was living with MS or like the fact that I was single or unemployed or all those things, but just saying, this is what is, where do I want to go from here?

It's sort of, then I was able to sort of