REDISCOVER YOUR PASSIONS AND IGNITE THE SPARK OF YOUR IDENTITY
soul competitor
REDISCOVER YOUR PASSIONS AND IGNITE THE SPARK OF YOUR IDENTITY
My Story
In 2001, I left my hometown of Jamison, PA and moved across the state to Pittsburgh for college. Even though, I'm sure I thought I knew everything at the time, it is obvious to me now that I knew nothing. The years that followed were mad chaos at it's finest. By 2002, I'd met my soon-to-be husband, got pregnant (and miscarried) at 19, was married by 20, and by 28, had delivered the last of our four beautiful babies. It blows my mind that I was actually pregnant or nursing someone for an entire decade!
Looking back at it now, I'm not sure how I survived those years. The years full of demands from my tiny humans, the disconnect from my spouse that grew with the birth of each child, the sleepless nights, and the overall loss of who I was outside of being a mommy, wife, employee, and disciplined student of exhaustion. It was both the best period of my life and the timeframe during which I felt most disconnected from myself.
They say you should always put on your own oxygen mask before you can help others. That concept was lost on me for much of my 30's. I lived a life full of the idea that if I wasn't sacrificing, I must not be doing it right.
Life was beautiful, but life was damn hard!
It was not until February 2022 that I had my own ah-ha moment. My father died after a nine-year battle with cancer. As you can imagine, the event itself was traumatic...but it left me with something else. Something bigger.
I could suddenly see a neon sign flashing at me...
Life is finite. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.
It was the wake up call that I didn't know I needed.
I had been hiding behind the daily grind of parenthood with no clear goals, passion, sense of self, direction, or connection. I was allowing the mundane routine of work and life define me. I was sacrificing too much, receiving too little, and not setting and sticking to clear boundaries.
I was not respecting my needs.
My cup was not only empty...it was bone dry.
It was in the months after my father's passing that it was suddenly clear to me...I had to do life differently. I had to figure out who I was outside of being "just a mom," to figure out what sets my soul on fire, and to begin to live my life with urgency. It is this urgency that ultimately led me to breathwork.
Breathwork has changed my life.
With a much firmer grasp on who I am outside of raising my babies, I am grateful to have the opportunity to serve others as a self-discovery coach and breathwork facilitator.
May we all drink from full cups,
lit warm with a passion for life and a fully embraced identity!