A Natural Valor

Hey everyone, feel special, happy and loved today! You always are!
Check out and order some chocolate🤤! If you’re lucky, I might deliver it to you 😉

Also there’s a REALLY important event coming in March (besides my bday 😆) Keep an eye out for details!

Flavor of the day!
I’ve always been a lover of spicy food. Buffalo sauce on fries, pizza and hot wings 🤤 just to mention a few.
Obviously this chocolate isn’t filled with Buffalo sauce, but it does have a kick with chili powder and nutmeg. “Some Like It Hot” - Not overwhelming, the perfect combination of sweet and spicy. Give it try, you will not be disappointed!

Hungry? Order some yummy chocolate! All vegan, organic, natural and 63% dark chocolate. Delicacies you just can’t get enough of!
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We're all going through something we feel others won't understand, or even care about. Know that it is okay to be alone and process, but please, make sure you're reaching out to friends and loved ones during your periods of helplessness.

If you ever feel in despair know that there is a community of us out there that truly care and want to see you prosper in true joy, love and happiness.

Join our community hosted by my best friend Brandi Rasmussen. We are always here to listen and provide support!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/paradigmprocess/

ALSO! Don't forget to check out and order some chocolate! Chocolate always makes you feel better 😁

It’s time for me to retire from my hiatus.

I first launched A Natural Valor two years ago... and then COVID shut me down. Life decided to interfere, but I was okay with that.

Now that things have “slowed” and we’ve become accustomed to our new norm, I am ready to start again. I’ve been through the wringer and came out on top: it’s time I provide delicious delicacies to you all.

I have a story I need to tell. I’m not looking for your sympathy, but understanding that the past two years have truly been rough on everyone. Now that I’m about 90% on the other side of my struggles, I am going to build this business. Those struggles have only proven to me how strong and capable I really am. I’m not going to lie though, I’m nervous, I’m scared, and I DO NOT want to fail.

So the story of my past two years, very summarized, is painful, real, and it may hurt some of you to read. That’s not my intention, but it’s a story that shows how to rise from ashes and become a warrior. Using your natural valor (and more importantly, the help of others) to overcome challenges and fear to fight your way to the top.

I reintroduce you to A Natural Valor and hope that you all enjoy my delicacies as much as I do! Please feel free to reach out on messenger and bear with me as I work through shipping and setting up for farmer’s markets!

If you wish to read my short story, please continue on…

Trigger warning: discussion of su***de, domestic violence, and addiction

As you may or may not know, February 2020 ended my four year career with Southwest Airlines, and it honestly couldn’t have happened at a more opportune time. I decided that I would pursue my passion of baking and start my own company. Unfortunately, right after that, Covid became so severe that it shut down the entire world. Food was scarce and schools were closed. At that point I needed to focus my attention on my children, which was something I had been begging to do for so many years. I felt like work, prior to covid, was taking over my mental happiness and overwhelming the time that I could and should have spent with them. I was missing out on watching my children grow and thrive as they are truly what mattered most to me. So the months went on and we played and enjoyed our time together struggling with our new reality.

The unfortunate aspect of such a glorious opportunity was the fact that, even though I craved all this free time to be with my children, it took its toll on my mental health. Everything became so repetitive, boring, and overwhelming. Chad was constantly working with the airline as an essential employee and had picked up a second job as a courier, so I was pretty much running the household alone. It was exhausting and I eventually lost all my passions. I couldn’t stand trying to figure out what to cook 3 times a day on top of the billions of snacks the children believed they needed and keeping the house clean and and and… It was just too much.

Eventually I snapped. I wanted to die. I had a terrible voice in my head begging me to end it all. What was the point? We’re stuck on a planet unable to escape from a virus that is ravaging and killing thousands. How was I going to be able to get past this and be happy again?

I tried therapy. SO many times. No one seemed to understand what was going on with me. And not to mention the struggles within my relationship with Chad (which is a story for another time). I was so lost. I would spend every day hiding in my garage, smoking myself into oblivion screaming for God, for ANYONE to save me from this life. This isn’t what I want anymore. I can’t stand being alive. Please release me from my suffering or bring my soul peace to live the life I’m being made to live.

Eventually things would calm, but never be truly better. I always felt there was a part of me that knew something was wrong/missing, but I kept going if only for my children. For they are only on this earth because I wanted them here. So I kept moving forward. But the struggles were unspoken and just as hard for Chad. I tried to save him, I really did. I tried to inspire him and help him grow into the man I KNEW he was deep inside. He has so much passion, creativity and intellect that I figured my pushing and manifesting his business would help him reach his goals. But his demons had other plans. I thought we had moved past the addictions. I thought we were finally able to be happy and live a life as a family unit. I was wrong. I was so wrong that it literally ripped my heart from inside my chest, stomped it into the dirt, burned to ashes and blew away into the wind.

So, as 2020 came to a close, we tried, over and over and over, but his addiction was stronger and he chose it over us. It took him from me on a day that I will never forget for the rest of my life, 3/23/21, my grandmother’s birthday (may she RIP) He chose fentanyl and an overdose, but life wanted to give him one more chance, just not with me.
I became so numb and I could no longer force myself to feel what I knew I haven’t felt in so long. Of course we tried couples counseling, but it felt like a joke to me. Why the hell do we need to work so hard to make something that I feel should be natural, and slightly effortless, work? Why am I sitting here trying when my heart just isn’t in it anymore? It’s been 13 years of inconsistency and struggle, and I don't have the energy to fight for this anymore. I thought maybe going back to work would help, but the suicidal thoughts returned. I felt my life was falling apart again and I couldn’t take it anymore.

I chose me this time. June 2021 I began therapy at a new place, a recovery center for mental health. It was intense and I kid you not that this place helped me turn my life around. But it wasn’t what he wanted. He wasn’t happy that I chose me. He decided to choose violence, fear, manipulation, and torture until I was literally dying. My life force was draining. My best friend watched as I’m falling to the floor from the accumulation of his actions causing me to be unable to eat or sleep and she was force feeding me soup to keep me alive. But again, this is a story for another time.

My point? I am here, I am alive and I am ONLY choosing myself and my children. There is nothing that will stop me anymore. So here I am, restarting, rebranding and relaunching my business. I am a strong, independent, and FREE woman and will no longer let ANYONE or ANYTHING bring me down again.
My intention is to use this platform to inspire and innovate. I want to help those who feel they are stuck and stagnant to realize that all it takes is a push externally, or internally, to get you to move. It's not going to be easy, and it definitely will NOT be comfortable, but nothing that's worth living for is. Using chocolate to inspire others? Is that even possible? Of course it is, because it's not the product itself, it's the motivation, the love, the intention behind it all that will help others to see that anything is possible. Light and dark are one, but it's what you choose to sit in and feel that will bring you out of the pain and into your creation or keep you lost in an endless loop of failure.

Use your Natural Valor and fight for the life you are worthy of.

The Menu!

Orders will close out by Friday to be prepared over the weekend.

Order here:
https://forms.gle/qjNi4tazGaumFJbp7

Orders can be hand delivered for $5 or free for orders over $25.
I will be working on attending farmers markets for local order pick up as well. Keep an eye out for updates!

If you are needing your order shipped directly, keep in mind that it will have to be 1-2 day shipping during the week and will add to the total cost. Also, shipping speeds have been wonky due to covid.

Payment methods:
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Reach out if you have any questions! [email protected]