When Life Breaks Your Heart, But Not Your Spirit
What happens when life breaks your heart more than once, yet somehow you keep finding the strength to move forward?
In this episode of The Beauty In The Mess, I sit down with Rita J. Cartwright, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of Go Beyond The Limit.
Rita is a survivor of two domestic violence relationships and has endured betrayal and devastating loss, including the death of her husband and, just one year later, her oldest son.
But Rita's story isn't simply about what she's survived. It's about what she's done with it.
At 72, Rita continues to build businesses, serve others, and help women rebuild their confidence and independence. Through Go Beyond The Limit, she provides free entrepreneurship training to survivors of domestic violence, helping women develop skills to create their own opportunities and financial independence.
We talk openly about domestic violence, rebuilding self-worth, starting over, entrepreneurship, grief, losing the people we love, and what it means to truly heal a broken heart. Rita also shares the powerful role her Christian faith has played throughout her journey and the biblical principles behind her book, How to Heal Your Broken Heart.
One of the most powerful things Rita says is that “grief is a weight.” We may never stop loving or missing the people we've lost, but we can learn to carry their memory without allowing grief to keep us from fully living.
And perhaps most beautifully, Rita says that through everything she's experienced, she has “rediscovered who God originally created me to be before life happened.”
2:50 – Meet Rita and the mission behind Go Beyond The Limit
4:50 – Rebuilding confidence and self-worth after domestic violence
6:50 – Rita’s faith and bringing God into her work and business
8:50 – Searching for purpose and finding her path later in life
10:50 – Becoming a mother at 16 and refusing to let circumstances define her future
46:50 – Turning painful experiences into a testimony that can help other women
47:50 – How to Heal Your Broken Heart: domestic violence, infidelity, and losing loved ones
48:50 – The eight biblical principles Rita says helped heal her broken heart
51:50 – How helping others became part of Rita’s own healing
52:50 – Supporting widows and mothers who have lost children
54:50 – Can healing feel like letting go of the person you’ve lost?
56:50 – Faith, counseling, and allowing yourself to receive help
57:50 – Why Rita says “grief is a weight”
58:50 – Receiving comfort and healing during life’s darkest seasons
1:00:50 – Getting through the storm and believing there is still something on the other side
1:01:50 – Rediscovering who God created you to be “before life happened”
✨ Connect with Rita J. Cartwright
· Go Beyond The Limit: gobeyondthelimit.org
· RJ's Digital Solutions: rjsdigitalsolutions.com
· Book: How to Heal Your Broken Heart U.S. Book Page
· Email: ritaj.cartwright@gmail.com
· Rita’s Phone Number: (602) 540-4307
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