Becoming Your True Self

Time to rewrite our story

Over the last 6 months my life has changed in ways I can't describe adequately.

Really 1,276 days to be exact when my RISE story began. That is when I took on a role I never imagined would happen.

My widowed elderly Mother had a catastrophic medical emergency. I thought it would be a simple problem to address. I am a great problem solver, and I felt my Google medical degree calling.

But logistics and needs were a problem. We were separated by half a country. I had just started a new job 3 weeks before that call.

But like a dutiful only-child I went there to see how to fix this. And the tables turned. She became my child, my charge, and my day-to-day family problem.

So to keep sane I started compiling how this change impacted everything and everyone around me.

While this seems dramatic, I definitely don't suggest it as a career path - and total respect for nurses. It helped me see and heal a little bit of unresolved childhood trauma. And helped me see what is, and isn’t, realistic choices in my own direction of life.

This change gave me time to clean up and finish a ton of unrelated tasks and incomplete certifications.

And eventually brought me to creating my Sleeping Phoenix Discovery Journey.

Hope you follow my Substack to see what my evolution. How I took the worst experiences and created something magical.

Here is a cheer to the women reclaiming themselves. The ones who took challenge to realign their priorities and pivot to a better future.

Here we RISE together.