The Beginning of This Journey

I was 38, married, a mom of 2 boys and owned a large cleaning business with several employees. Life was very busy! 

I worked days and nights, my phone was always ringing and dinging, plus I had all the wonderful, as well as time and energy consuming, mom life responsibilities. I was tired but mostly happy, other than a neck injury that caused daily pain and headaches. I pushed through it okay though. I found as long as I kept moving and took my medications, it was fine.

That's when (to make a very long story short) Covid hit, things got crazy and so I sold the business and life totally changed.

It was amazing to be home with the kids, helping them with school, getting the house clean and organized, plus I was cooking real meals for my family again! However, I had a lot more down time …sitting time …not moving time. Needless to say, I quickly gained about 20lbs, and my pain and headaches were getting way worse. I had to do something but with lock downs and only having one income now, I didn’t know what!

Then someone mentioned, maybe I should check out YouTube to see what free videos I can find. I was amazed at all these exercises and workout classes that I could take, 100% free, in my living room! ...in my pajamas if I wanted! So, I started exploring, trying this and that just to keep active. This helped me a bit and getting moving again was good, but some movements and exercises would just aggravate my injury more and then I wouldn’t be able to workout or move much at all for days!

Then I stumbled onto a 30 day Yoga challenge with a fantastic instructor. I enjoyed it so much as a gentle way to move everyday without hurting myself plus it made me feel so clam and peaceful. After a couple weeks I was practicing 2 or 3 times a day and it began to lower my pain significantly ...I had completely fallen in love! A few weeks more and was able to stop all the nerve pills and muscle relaxers completely, plus I had lost all the weight I had put on. Yoga was my miracle! 

Forward a little more than a year later, I was just about to turn 40, I felt great, plus the kids were back to school and life was back to normal (well, as normal as it gets these days) but, something was just missing. 

I started thinking about going back to work, at least part-time to get me out of the house but wanted to do something I would enjoy. Then I realized, one of the only things that I truly enjoyed about my days at home alone was my daily, uninterrupted Yoga Practice. Could that be it? …No way, I’m too old! Could I really? …take Yoga Instructor Training at 40?! 

Yup! I did it. I signed up that week. I absolutely LOVED it! However strangely enough, while taking my training I decided that I don’t even want to teach (physical) Yoga! At least not a class in a gym or studio. It did however spark this “mid-life crisis” of mine. 

The philosophy and meditations really hooked me. Then I took a continuing education Chakra course and an Auyrveda course and then Meditation teacher training, then Crystals and Reiki …Now I am totally obsessed! I want to learn about it all! All the spiritual and the Woo and Energy and Vibrations and Love and Light and, and, and…

Now, at 40-something, I am a certified Naturopathy Practitioner, Holistic Health Practitioner, and Life coach, plus trained in Restorative Yoga, and I am currently working towards my Reiki Level 2 case study hours! I highly doubt it will stop there though. I am already planning what I want to learn next! 

(I should mention that in the midst of all this, I ended up finding a great part-time job at our local, small-town newspaper. I’m just working a couple days a week, but it does give me a little bit of financial assistance to continue to embrace my holistic health journey.)

Also, I am so lucky because my husband has been amazing and so supportive while just letting me run this crazy left field path I’m taking. He even doesn’t mind helping to pay for a few of the courses! With most other people in my life though, I only share so much as I am sure they will think that I have gone crazy. (My boys, who are both young teens now, say it all the time! ...lovingly of course) 

But even though this is all so out of character for me, and I have no idea where all of this came from, I have to say, I am loving life! I have peace and joy and patients and gratitude on a level I have never felt before, and I just know that it will only get better from here! 

So now the question is… what should I do with all this knowledge? I don’t believe I am being guided to do all this learning just for my own enjoyment, but also don’t really have any clue what comes next. 

So, for now, while I figure out my next steps on my path, my purpose in life… I’ll start a BLOG!! 

I know there must be others out there like me, going through this same life transformation and type of spiritual awakening. It’s wonderful! ...but also, a bit confusing and lonely. 

Hopefully I can find a few like-minded souls, a small community of kindred spirits, to connect with and lean on and maybe even put all this knowledge I’m gaining to some kind of good use! I can help others, by passing on this education to those that know there is more to this life but might be struggling to see their path or the next steps.

So, if anyone reads this, if you can relate in anyway, or if you just want help finding guidance and support, please leave a comment or subscribe! I WOULD LOVE to know I am not alone here. 

First of all, I edited this post a bit to reflect the new trainings I have completed.

I have now realized that helping others is the path my heart wants me to take and have decided to open up a Holistic Health Coaching and Wellness business out of our home, in our small town.  

...and now this website has become more than just a blog with me rambling on lol

Its so fun to look back and see where the journey has taken me so, I am planning to continue to update this post each year :)