Elizabeth Holland Beyer

Born, March 30th, 1975, in Fort Rucker, Alabama. Grew up in Memphis Tennessee. Married to Charles Robert Beyer, Jr. with 2 boys, Owen and Emerson, and our gorgeous Goldendoodle, Lincoln. We live in Lakewood Ranch Florida just outside Sarasota and Bradenton. My favorite place is Saint Augustine, where we lived for 8 years. I love horses, however, can’t ride anymore. My career was as a Para-Medical Aesthetician where I helped people overcome skin disease, scars and so much more at plastic surgery and dermatology offices. I loved my career before MSA stole it from me. I say that with a true belief God has a different intent for my life. My first car was 1987 Toyota Celica, I called tinker. It made an awful tinking noise. 

A story about one’s Life is complex. There are so many tentacles within a life, to hone it down to a few paragraphs is daunting. I’m naturally an introvert and we generally don’t like sharing our stories with others.  This recent interruption in life has really opened my eyes to what our true purpose is. See, telling one’s story openly is disclosing our weaknesses and often opening pandora’s box to the dark corners of life. keeping some secrets to oneself is natural, a form of self-preservation. People you love don’t always need to know they let you down or caused unintended harm. As children, we are vulnerable unfortunately life happens. As we grow up, we gain strength from the obstacles and challenges we faced. So my story starts now. Each day I wake up my story has begun anew. I no longer worry about the gossip or troubling encounters, instead, with the lead in God’s hands, I’m focused on today and tomorrow. How best I can serve our Lord and Savior. 

I’ve been encourages by my husband to share this story. We will be writing it together, I’m sure he will be writing a large part of the updates and details, he likes this kind of stuff. This journey is ours. When we talk about life’s interruption, It’s not just my life that’s been interrupted. It’s my family’s life as well. Chuck has been relentless after my March 2023 ICU visit, I think I was still sedated or just coming out of it. He said to me “Telling the story is unloading the burden our heart holds and becoming tension free. In order to help you, you need zero outside tension. You have to remain in constant ZEN. Sharing the journey with others unloads that burden, allows those we love to remain close and feel connected. It also allows others to better understand what something so debilitating and life altering can do to us.  It gives others hope. You can refocus your life and go after that hope full steam. By telling our story, it gives others whom are introvert in spirit, a hope they might not currently have. You have a chance to save a life, maybe even bring a non-believer into the light and introduce him/her to their savior. Either way, your story has power, even if we don’t see it now, it is there, and I believe this is our purpose.” Now, I don’t know how I remembered that, or if I got all his words current, but that's what I remember.  He said I pretty well summed it up. 

As our journey continues, we are moving towards a combination of western medicine and holistic options.  Documenting this journey and keeping the blogs up to date will hopefully be useful for those seeking answers as they struggle with their own interruptions in life.