Where energy flows energy goes, and no one’s pain is more significant than another person’s pain. Thank you @msrachelhollis for the reminder yesterday you rock!!!!
I’m very grateful for the life I live, so please understand the context of this post. I woke up this morning with a heavy heart because 2020 has been hard to say the least. I’m sure most of you can relate and are all experiencing different types of “HARD” right now. No one’s hard is more significant than another’s.
I started 2020 as a single mom. l lost close ones over political differences, and I moved to a new place, all while the world shut down.
There were days I isolated myself trying to understand what my new normal might look like, while grieving the loss of my relationships, my old life, going to work, ect. and keeping a toddler isolated, it all felt so “HARD”.
I started to reflect on my “HARD” and realized I had been through worse. In 2009 I had experienced the death of my boyfriend and somehow through the darkness, I survived the saddest tragedy I have ever known.
This hard after all wasn’t so bad, and there was so many things to be thankful for. I was still here and motivating others to live their best lives through my past adversities. There have been so many silver linings during COVID when I focused my energy in the right places.
I got to know my neighbors during the first COVID shutdown, something I’m not sure would have happened without being home. I couldn’t be more blessed to be surrounded by them. Thank you!!!!
I built new friendships with the woman who joined my boot camp and we gave each other community, fitness, and empowerment. They have fed my soul and given me the strength to go for so much more. Thank you!!!!!
I started my own business, and it scares the living shit out of me, because I don’t want to fail, but will never know unless I try. So I went for it.!!!
I went out of my comfort zone to find new ways of income like meal prepping for people, teaching live zoom workouts, building my own booty bands, again COVID took me outside my comfort zone and made me embrace being uncomfortable.
I grew as a trainer training through zoom and had to constantly research new ways to train without gear and equipment.
A new friend reminded me of the beauty that was within me and everything I had to offer, I just had forgotten it in all the chaos and my confidence slowly came back. They also introduced me To the Greatest Showman. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I’m grateful for you.
Sometimes it seems impossible to see through the darkness, or the “HARD” you are experiencing right now, but keep looking. If you look hard enough and focus on the good things that you already have, things will start to increasingly get better.
Energy flows where energy goes!!!!Surround yourself with people who are going to lift you up during this challenging time. Humans need community in an isolated situation. Reach out and stay positive, this adversity won’t last for ever.
