A Time To Heal
Motherhood, for myself has been the only reason given in my life to become my most authentic self! This journey has caused me to search and seek reasons outside of self to grow into the woman that I am today. I will give a little background of Nena, for you to understand my journey. I was born Nena Valeria Smith around 5pm on May 4th, 1985, in Frankfurt, Germany. I was the first-born daughter to a woman that turned 18 the very next day and man that was 10 years her senior. This married couple knew very little about relationships because, unfortunately neither of them were able to witness a healthy marriage during their upbringing. Therefore, the only knowledge of relationships and what they were to be came from what they witnessed in movies or televisions shows. Hence the name Nena that came from a character in the populated soap opera The Young and The Restless. Valeria my middle name also comes from a movie that featured Arnold Schwarzenegger.
