01/23/2024
I’ve hit pause.
Back in September, I hit pause on Rural Healing Grief Recovery. After a year of navigating the grief recovery world I made the hardest decision to stop offering my services in both Westlock & Barrhead. This decision did not come lightly as those closest to me know how much I pondered and ran myself down, trying to figure out how I could fit this dream into the next steps of my journey.
I didn’t want to give it up. I wanted to do it all and when I realized I couldn’t, I felt defeated. Truthfully, I wasn’t even going to make this post.
2023 was one of the hardest, yet freeing, most transformative years I’ve experienced so far in this lifetime. After finding the Grief Recovery Method and applying the very same techniques to my life as I did for the clients that I served, I found a lot of peace in who I was set to become. I felt called to do this work but do it tenderly and graciously. Trying to balance my twenties, a career, and my education at the same time would not allow me to tend to those as tenderly as I am meant to.
So, we pause.
It’s taken a lot of growth and acceptance to get to this mindset I carry now, but i could not be more proud of what I’ve done, what I’m doing, and what I hope to continue to do again one day.
Some of you may know this about me already, but I am still in university completing my Criminology degree with a minor in Psychology. Currently, I work a part time job at Family & Community Support Services and attend university twice a week in Edmonton. Honestly, I probably never would have went back to university if I never discovered the GRM. I plan to attend grad school after university to become a Mental Health Therapist and walk with people again. Not only through their grief but through a magnitude of other mental health challenges that are so real and important to address too.
Although for now I’m saying pause. There’s no doubt I’ll be back. I love what I do and I can’t wait to be able to do it better. 🤍
If you made it this far with me, THANK YOU. I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart.
