So this is really happening, I'm actually going to start a blog. I honestly couldn't think of a better time in my life to do this. I am a Mother of two crazy kids, I am newly single and stepping into a bizarre time to be in the dating world, work my butt off at multiple jobs and trying to figure out how to co-parent with my ex, all while trying to really find my place on this planet. Sounds stressful and chaotic, but it actually feels like the start to the best chapter of my life. I mean everyday I am learning a new lesson or developing some new outlook on a scenario or theory about parenting or lifestyle choices. Its a journey, and its defiantly worth sharing.
I have felt completely defeated at times and like things would never get better. The days that are long and your brain feels like mush and nothing you do feels right. You go to bed, try to forget the day, and the awesome thing is, you wake up in the morning and its a fresh start. Yesterday is gone, (I mean sure it does linger at times but stay with me) tomorrow is unknown and you just have this new fresh day where you can decide for yourself how its going to turn out. The second you start realizing how powerful your outlook on life is, is the moment that your life will change forever.
We all know those people, the ones who cant get themselves out of the past and they just dwell on what could have been. Their lives stand still. They age, they experience new things and people but their life doesn't ever really go in any direction. Its possible something impacted their life and it shook them to their core. These times are scary and they influence our outlook on life, relationships and how we chose to live day to day.
I am no therapist by any means and what I say here is purely just my opinion.
I feel for these people, it makes me sad to think of anyone whos heart has been broken or has lost someone that they love and can no longer see them again. A few things have happened in my life where I felt like it created a butterfly affect of changes. One huge impact and a dozen little flutters that shifted my entire life. In some of these moments I dwelled. I cried. I thought life was never going to get better and in those moments, when I was feeling those things and believing that it would not get better, it didn't. Time was standing still and it sucked.
Insert the Law of attraction. "The law of attraction is a philosophy suggesting that positive thoughts bring positive results into a person's life, while negative thoughts bring negative outcomes."
How powerful is that? The idea that YOU can create your own destiny in your mind. I started to learn about the law of attraction probably 5-7 years ago and I was so fascinated. Manifesting, power of positive thinking, all of it is so insanely powerful. What it all really boils down to though is believing in yourself. Do you believe in yourself enough to know that you can survive the divorce? Do you believe you can be an amazing single parent or run a half marathon? Start a blog? Design an Etsy store? I mean do you??
I am not going to sit here and lie to you by saying I am the most positive person and I never have any moments where I feel like my life sucks and its never going to get better. I am going to tell you that, when I start believing in myself and going after the things I want, good shit happens. No one who walks through life like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh gets a happy ending because their to focused on whatever got them sad from the start.
Life is like a roller coaster ride and somedays we are riding high and others we are low. This past year for most has been an all time low with the global pandemic and the distance we have had to put between ourselves and family, friends and just the "normal" life we used to know. The amount of people I have seen though, who have used this past year to make huge changes and take risks is incredible. Turning that hobby into a career, finding the time to slow down and be present, taking chances that in a regular year would have been terrifying let alone during the pandemic. Those people, those are the ones who took this slump part of their life, the low, and they made it a fricking high. I am one of those people.
I am here to share with you the good, the bad and the ugly that I experience day to day. I am also here to remind you that every negative has a positive and that even when you are at the bottom of the hill, you can still walk your ass back up to the top, but its a journey and its going to take time and sometimes blood sweat and tears.
I'm excited your here reading this, weather you know me personally or have no idea who I am. I'm happy your here, and you 're here for a reason, because nothing happens without reason. Its exciting, isn't it? I can not wait to see where the journey takes us. Thanks for starting the next chapter with me.
Xo-Emily
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