✨ Life Update ✨

I’m back in purple baby 💜🤓 The last few weeks have been such a whirlwind, I realized I haven’t really shared much with you all! Where do I begin?? My birthday was beautiful and quiet, which turned out to be just what I needed. A few days prior to turning the big 3-3, I had the incredible opportunity to drive down to Palm Beach to film a project with a doctor down there which was totally cool and totally fun! It’s nothing that will ever air and it won’t be posted anywhere- but it was a great opportunity to meet people in the “biz” and get a fresh look over of my medical records. I got some good recommendations and who know what will happen down the line?? 🤩 Almost as soon as I got back, My sister and her boyfriend came into town to surprise my mom for Mother’s Day. Covid kept us at a distance, but any time together is always so incredibly treasured 🐚 She's my favorite person in the whole wide world. Just being around her makes everything better. We got lots of beach time together, which is always my happy place. I truly believe there’s something physiologically healing about being in the warm waters of Siesta Key 🌊 Not just the sand... You have to get in the water! All around the same time, my other sister Reba, flew in from Germany with her husband and in-laws; who were seeing the USA for the very first time! How exciting right?! This was my first time meeting her husband and first time seeing her since their wedding. Covid also kept us at a distance, but the time together was the best birthday gift I could imagine! Spending time with my family, soaking up love and vitamin D was just the recharge I needed before heading back to my Speech Therapy job at SMH. Many of you know, I worked this same position, same hospital, same unit for about 6 years right after graduate school. I always described it as my “Dream Job”. And it was… is! For the last year or so working in 2018/2019, I really started to struggle with my health and tremendously struggled to get through or even show up to work at times. In early 2020, I finally had to take a complete medical leave from my position. This eventually lead to hiring freezes and I leaned hard into the messages I was getting to take a break completely. It's been almost exactly two years since then but I’m officially BACK! I started working back on that same unit last week and it has been such a warm homecoming, in a way. People from across all disciplines recognizing me, welcoming me back, being so happy to see me. Their warmth surprised me 🥰 I, also, surprised myself! I was so freaking nervous, thinking this world was so far away and foreign to me after so long. But honestly I’ve been able to jump back in quicker and easier than I gave myself credit for! Why do we do that? Underestimate ourselves. I did this job for six years, I can most definitely do it again. And I am! There's a new documentation system that will still take some time to master, but most other things are "like riding a bike" as they say 🚲 The mantra I keep coming back to recently is "I Can Do Hard Things" because I CAN! My mind just likes to tell me I can't all the time. If I focus on the task immediately in front of me, it's usually something I feasibly CAN do. So I start there.