The Cards Are on the Table: Welcome to Proliferated Psycardology
Have you ever been in a place where you feel like there is so much coming at you from all directions, and you want to get a handle on things or some clarity as to what is going on? Maybe there are times when you feel like you've eerily experienced "this," whatever "this" is before, and it seems like God or the Universe is trying to get you to learn some lesson. Still, you don't know what it is. Sometimes it may feel like you are going through the same cycles over and over; you're just a little older, maybe in a different location, at a new job, and may or may not be with someone new. If this is you, it's also me! And I can assure you, we are not alone!
A few years ago, I found myself sitting in my bed, recovering from an open myomectomy, and wondering how I'd gotten to this place. I'd bought a house and moved back to my hometown, and interestingly my now adult bedroom had a similar setup to my childhood bedroom growing up. Although my current house and the apartment I grew up in are in different parts of town, my bedroom faces the same direction, the closet is in the same part of the room, and so is the en suite bathroom. I was on a medical break from the Ph.D. Program I'd started the year before due to my surgery, and I desperately wanted to get back – back to my cohort, back to my studies, and back to being busy. I'd been busy basically as long as I can remember. I started babysitting at 12 years old and always got good grades. I got my first 'real job' at 14, took college classes my senior year of High School, and worked. I worked as a full-time Undergraduate student, then joined the Army, Active Duty. I even went to school, worked side jobs, and volunteered while I was in the Army. This surgery forced me to come to a complete stop! At the time, it definitely caused me to feel anxious and like I had to find SOMETHING to do!
All I could do was rest and recover. Then, as I am cleared for recovery on March 21, 2020, everything shuts down. Yes, the pandemic. It was like my surgery and recovery time foreshadowed what I needed to be doing, resting and reflecting, healing and growing, learning and relearning. Looking back now, it was a beautiful time of discovery and rediscovery. I got to fully heal from the surgery. But this time also helped me improve many other areas of my life. As a result, it has helped me become more effective in how I connect with and help others. This has brought me to the point where I wanted to formalize and expand what I do to help as many people, groups, and organizations heal, grow, and operate better and more effectively as possible. This brings us to where I am today and why you are reading this blog!
I hope that with this space I am able to share, you are able to receive, the connections cultivated here are reciprocal, and we are all able to grow.
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