My First Blog, Forever Evolving!

I begin with a story, a funny memory I have from the past, and it goes like this…

One day I was talking with my son about how I wanted to write and blog. I had this desire building inside of me to do this, so he started helping me with looking into different programs and possibilities about how I could move forward with this idea! But, as we continued talking about it together, I said

“yeah, I really want to blog and write, but I don’t like being so public, I feel too vulnerable and exposed, so I don’t want anyone to see it!”. He began to laugh and said, “well mom, that’s the point of blogging, I guess what you want to do right now is journal.” So, this is what I have done since 1996! I have been journaling on a consistent basis since that time.

During all these years, I have watched others become more public and vocal, I have supported people mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually all the while staying in my cocoon of comfort and safety. But during this time, I did focus and stay committed to becoming the best and most “real” version of me I could be. I became a therapist and a practitioner who focused on mental health and well-being. I delved into challenges and strengths that connect to family of origin, culture, addictions, conflict, and codependency, to name just a few while I was doing my formal educational training.

I have become fully aware of myself and what has brought me to this place of finally making the decision to blog and dip my toe into the river or lake of public exposure, and it’s the desire to share some ideas and feelings about the journey into self-awareness and spiritual strength and growth. It became my passion, and now I want to share it with others! So, I set up my business and am now moving forward with putting my “shingle” out as a “self-development and personal transformation life coach, counsellor and blogger.”

I’m now well into my 50’s in my life span development. I can remember turning 50 was such a milestone, I felt I had crossed into a space of “it’s my time” from watching other people and especially other women really talk about it being a “right of passage.” A time where one arrives to a place of really letting go of all the “approval-seeking and self-judgement.” Well, it was for me; I had spent so many years in my life “people-pleasing” and working on my issues of self-esteem. Rehashing life experiences and lessons, and choosing other’s desires over my own that I finally realized, enough!

So, here I am…I am going to blog, and it will be about different topics or stories about how I see and experience life and how I have used various experiences, training and self-help books to come to this place of self-acceptance and self-love. I am so excited; it is such a great feeling to finally do this…stay tuned, and right now, you can visualize me doing my “happy dance.”