05/21/2024
These last two or three years I have had many highs and many lows. I bounced between feeling like I’m not producing enough and working so hard that I experienced burnout. You would probably never know it because I tend not to share a lot of things here except for some very basic things. But this last two years specifically I have cut a lot of addictions out of my life, one of them that I’m still working on is being addicted to being busy.
I had become so addicted to working that it nearly destroyed my mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as my marriage and family life. I have been posing this question a lot, “Why do you think your value as a person is based on how much you work or produce?” I couldn’t answer that question until I began my recovery from codependency and other addictions. Alcohol, sugar, carb, exercise, studying, taking course after course, reading book after book; I never felt like I was “ready”. Ready for what? Who knows! The perfection I was seeking was unattainable and unrealistic.
However, I’m doing better now and have learned that sometimes we don’t see what we need to understand until we’re ready to understand it.
And now that I understand it, I’m ready to share, even in the messy times, so that other women, or men, might be able to overcome the suffocating reality that you don’t have to be ready, you just have to show up. And be willing to show up however you show up.
Your self-worth comes from WHO you are as a beautiful creation, nothing more, just as you are now. Just as I Am now. I’m talking to me too, because let’s face it, some days are easier than others but we can do it if we just show up together.
I may not have all answers, but I do have some tools that can help you find a way to live a more balanced and happy life. If you’re ready to give up waiting for perfection and start to live again, here is your sign, just start now! Come join our community of other like minded individuals who are working through those limiting thoughts and finding and achieving great things!