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    The Sacred Power of Connection: How the O+ Festival Freed My Soul

    by Theresa Widmann May 16, 2017 6 minutes
    Sacred Power of Connection, O+ Festival, O Positive Festival
    Photograph by Meiko Arquillos

    One woman’s journey exploring the miraculous power of music and community to connect to her purpose and free her soul

    —

    In 2009, I was living the dream.

    Girl from Wisconsin makes big move to NYC, finds love and along with it an amazing apartment in an impressive, and historically notorious, East Village building. She hosts delightful culinary dinners and all-night dance parties, jet-sets to South America for epic adventures, and weekends in her cabin in the Catskills. I’d also given up my mundane and acrimonious job as a lawyer and was living the fast-paced and highly lucrative life of a sales director for an international software company.

    Cherry on top: my fiancé and I were set to marry in July and shortly thereafter, I expected us to begin creating our family. I was 35 and my clock was ticking. In May, however, as if by divine intervention, my fiancé had a dream, which led to a conversation about postponing things, which led to confusion, lots of tears, and the immediate end of our cohabitation and relationship. Needless to say, the wedding never happened.

    My carefully orchestrated dream had

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