Debbie Gibson.Photo: Sylviamoorephotgraphy.com
Debbie Gibsonis another year older and all the wiser.
“On this, the night of my Birthday, and a life moment that is like a rebirth, thisfelt like the perfect expressionof my journey to this magical moment,” she started in the caption.
“When I was at my lowest points in the last decade, literally laying face down on the cold bathroom floor in physical and emotional pain,” Gibson wrote.
“Inside I was still looking up and trusting that someway, somehow I was going to find myself as you see me in this picture… Looking up to the skies with stars showering down on me and bathed in a light that would help me project to all of you strength and joy and music and empowerment and the knowledge that the visions you hold for yourself and the voices in your own head are far more powerful than anything external threatening to take you down,” she continued.
“Once you announce to the universe that you are open to receive, it may take a moment, a year, or a decade, but you will eventually reclaim your freedom that’s there inside you… right inside you. So, put it out there. Start today. You are worthy of living your best life. Happy rebirth day … hands to the sky and let the stars shower their light upon you,” she concluded.
TheElectric Youthartist also revealed the advice she’d give to her younger self: “Don’t stress too much and take in the moments. … Growing up in show business, I felt like it was noble to run myself into the ground,” she explained. “Now I see life as an adventure.”
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Gibson’s new lease on life comes after a long journey with Lyme disease, of which shefirst began noticing undiagnosed symptomsin 2013. Although she suffered through food sensitivities, fatigue, night sweats, migraines and back pain, she won’t call it a “battle.”
“I’vetaken that word out of my vocabulary,” Gibson said. “For me, it’s about being zen and open, listening for answers and yes, being a warrior, but a peaceful warrior and moving through things. When you’ve lived enough life, you start to move through things with more ease.”
Gibson dropped her 10th studio albumThe Body Rememberslast month, her first collection of original music in 20 years.
source: people.com
