As the new year approaches, we focus and set our intentions for our journey ahead. I encourage you to achieve these intentions one step at a time while growing new habits and shedding the old version of you. My new beginning of 2024 starts with sharing about mental illness and how it has affected me. I am not the only victim of my hereditary or behaviorally learned conditions.

The people that have been a part of my life have been affected by the disorders that have shaped my life. The experiences we have had together either bring a bond or break a bond. The individuals have feelings and emotions of their own and in some cases have directly or indirectly been a victim of the disorders, may have their own emotional scars from the experiences, or lack the education of the disorders to understand. My friends and family have had to adapt in crisis situations to physical and mental illness diagnoses that also affect millions of people around the world.

My new beginning is to continue on my personal healing journey, improve my quality of life, educate, and encourage others that there is a purpose and to live to the greatest of our abilities. Rise to the ultimate version of yourself. If you have given up hope, I cannot deny that I have once lost all hope and crumbled with many difficult days. Don’t lose hope. It changes. You change. Like a butterfly or the seasons of the year. The most drastic change occurs when you begin to love yourself and put yourself first.

It isn’t easy to manage the disabilities and diagnoses in your life. We wake and sleep to a routine and schedule. Sometimes even the most rigorous routine cannot prevent a trauma response or an “amygdala hijack”.

As I evolve in my own personal journey, I will be sharing about of some of the areas:

• General Therapy Topics
• Meditation
• Yoga
• Talk Therapy
• Breathwork
• Nervous System
• Aromatherapy
• Sleep Regulation
• Substance Abuse
• Spirituality
• Stressors
• Relationships
• Declaration of Mental Health
• Healthy eating
• Medications
• Nature
• Reiki

Always choose the brighter you because the light does shine through.