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b'Despite life\\u2019s hard curveballs, \\u201cthe end\\u201d can be the start of something beautiful. \\xa0On Power Your Life with guest Rachel Beck, discover how to create somethingbeautiful from your challenges and about the power of We Empathy.\\n\\nBorn an orphan in a remote village in India,\\xa0the author\\xa0V. Lakshmi was later adopted and raised by a white Jewish family in America.\\xa0The mysterious death of her biological mother foreshadows the sensitive feminine health issues V. would face in her life, including a twenty-year battle with endometriosis, infertility, failed adoption, and the decision to embrace hysterectomy as way of creating new life.\\xa0V.\'s cross-cultural adoption love story flies in the face of society\\u2019s expectations for women to look a \\u201ccertain way\\u201d and slip comfortably into the American Dream.\\n\\nHer teaching memoir "Finding Your Way When Life Changes Your Plans"\\xa0is an inspiring perspective for women, adoptive parents, and adoptees. It includes frank discussion and emotions of all sides of adoption, encounters with racism, her path to a loss of motherhood, and her courageous rebirth. Her book illustrates how \\u201cthe end\\u201d of one road is the beginning of another\\u2026and how the unforeseen is also beautiful and perhaps more fulfilling than we could have ever imagined!'