A Journey to Fit & Fast

I had to take a moment last week and ponder this question: what all can one person handle at once? I kind of was forced to do so, to be completely transparent (see last post: if you don’t deal with shit, it will deal with you).  Late last week, I started taking steps each day to ensure that I was taking care of myself emotionally and mentally again (in the wake of Covid and being everything to everyone, I had once again let this slide). I found that listening to a new podcast from my favorite self-help guru Brene Brown in the mornings set me up mentally to be able to go out into the craziness of my day (changes in policies, unknowns etc), and keep my less than calm self calm and not anxious. It is setting myself up for success each day and I saw immediate results.   It’s no secret that all of people in healthcare are struggling. Whether it be with empathy for our fellow healthcare workers fighting this good fight or the coming to work each day and seeing things and recomme...

I figured it time (really, church this morning made me realize I needed to deal with my shit) to blog again. Historically, it helps me mentally, emotionally, in just about every way to put words/feelings/etc in writing, and this was fairly long overdue considering this challenging season we all find ourselves in. In church this morning, the reference was made that freedom is often tried to be accomplished by mechanisms like pride, pleasure, wealth, cynicism, death and control, when in all actuality, salvation is the only real way to live free.  I'm not sure about any of you, but I know that I'm guilty of at least one (see: way more than one) of these mechanisms to freedom. Now, freedom can come in many, many forms and it can mean lots of different things to lots of different peoples. To me, it's peace. And in terms of salvation, I mean a form of surrender. Meaning, peace, for me, is accomplished through surrender. Surrender to control, surrender to cynicism, pride, pleasu...