I have been toying around or should I say procrastinating with this website and blog for almost a year now. I am certain that not launching it yet has to do with fear. Fear of not saying something right, fear of being judged, fear of not being a good blogger, fear of not being good enough or maybe it is a fear of success. Could it be that this is what I need or this the world needs right now at this given moment?
Finding your voice isn’t always easy but like Brene’ Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W. says in her book The Gifts of Imperfection, “once you see a pattern, you can’t un-see it.” My truth or pattern is health and wellness. I want to be healthy and I want to look and feel good. I want to feel alive but my daily habits or behaviors are not consistent with what I really want. Why is that?
I work 10-14 hour days, don’t exercise enough, don’t always make the best food choices and carry stress around like it’s nobody’s business! I am convinced that health and wellness is more of a mind game than most think. You have to want and consistently work towards the change. My parents always said, “it will take you as long to get out of a situation as it took to get into it.”
So for me an example of this would be that it has taken me almost 15 years to recover from an emotionally abusive 14 year marriage. June of 2000 is where my journey begins. It is where I started my personal self-discovery, where I started to build my self-confidence and self-worth. It is where I started to believe there is good in the world.
Today is where I begin to share and embrace my story. Welcome to Tracy’s Wellness Journey!