“Is this IT?!” ⬅️⬅️That’s how I felt.

My teenage years were filled with late-night study sessions, extracurricular activities, and choir. Yes 🙋🏼‍♀️, I’m a choir nerd. When I got in to my dream college, I knew there weren’t enough minutes in the day to cram all the info in to my head. I actually read text books walking up the ramp from the dorms to my AM classes. I failed my way forward in to nursing school, got my degree, and landed my DREAM job in the ICU.
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I never tired in the learning process—excited that each new day I would learn more and have another chance at helping affect someone’s life for good. But after budget cuts, a big overhaul of the unit, and months of me feeling beyond stressed, I felt BITTER.

In the end, I chose to leave my dream job for another job in the hospital for a fresh break. Taking that job meant that I only saw my hubby on Monday and Friday nights. We now joke about our “freeway overpass” kid exchanges as he came home from work and I began my shift. But at the time, it wasn’t funny. It was awful.

I kept thinking, “Is this REALLY IT?”

My health was a wreck. I often skipped meals, and when I did eat, it was hurried and unhealthy. 

Then entered my online fitness coach. She was a stranger on the internet who reach out to me. She cared. She taught me how to work out from home, drop the weight without fad dieting or starvation techniques, and invest in my thoughts with positivity. She asked me if I wanted to be a coach. I first said “That MLM crap?! No way!”🤣

Then when she asked me again, I said, “No! I don’t need ✨something else✨ in my life! I’m so busy!”

But what I needed was vision. What I needed was hope. What I needed was the ability to DREAM AGAIN.

All my roads led me to nursing, but it wasn’t the whole picture. When I said “yes” to coaching, I gained an entire tribe of women who CARED. I gained a coach who texted me regularly and asked me what I wanted out of life. #likewhat ?? I watched my coach and our tribe fail our way forward with our goals. I gained ABS, better eating habits, and a confidence I had never known before. 💥

I continue to feel an excitement and appreciation for the opportunity that “I didn’t have time for” and “didn’t believe in”. I continue to thank my 29-year-old self who said YES for this journey I am on. I continue to say “yes” to my dreams and myself because I know that change. starts. with. me.
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Live your life intentionally, my friends. Follow your dreams & don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t. ✌️

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