Grateful

I got to set up my new office this week. It's a work in progress, but you can see some of the art/things I've brought with me so far. My office is an inspiring place to be literally (it's in a spa!) and hopefully figuratively, too. Getting to work with someone who is philosophical, creative and grounded is just so great.

The gratitude I experience daily is, well, overwhelming. (Yes, I have to practice what I preach.) More than 6 years ago I knew I wanted to be in a place like this (I got info packets from ESU & Friends) but I could not even imagine what it would take to get here. 5 years ago I began some heavy lifting and dreamed up a plan for "some day". 2 years ago (when I started school) that dream got real, real fast.

I am more thankful than ever for every minute of the last five years (yes, even the hellish parts) because it makes me love where they have landed me even more. There is something so seamless about my life right now that I continuously have to pinch myself to believe it's real. I. Am. So. Grateful. 

Obviously (with two kids and a life well underway) I could not have not done it alone. Thanks to all of you who have rallied around my spirit and encouraged me along the way. Thanks to those who have fed me when I was too exhausted to even go to the drive-through. Thanks to those who have bought my paintings and supported me in that way (you have kept me expressing myself/sane through this time). Thanks to those who have put gas in my car and groceries in my fridge. Thanks to my family and friends for trusting me to do what I needed to do to get through all of it---and for continuing to love me even when I was grouchy and unavailable. Thanks to my supervisors, instructors and my classmates for generously sharing your knowledge and experience and time with me.

I promise to pay-it-forward. Even when the light seems too bright (my clients are amazing), I will journey with them. I will carry a torch for those who have not yet been able to ask or for those who are less fortunate so that even they have a chance to ask: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am 'I'?" And "If not now, when?" -Hillel

I could not have asked those same questions questions without you.

PS) I have also been working on my new website for the Genogram Journey groups I am going to lead. Thankfully I took an html class at Wichita State that last semester I was pregnant with Chloe. I took the class with Joey...we had so much fun IM-ing through it that I'm lucky I remember anything from it. Anyhow, I'm pretty proud of it because of all the blood, sweat and tears.
Click here to visit genogramjourney.com. I even got this whole PT profile thingy including this snazzy little button figured out: