I have had an extremely stressful week.

I am not going to go into details but it has been hard for me to stay present and not anxious the past several days.

One thing I did at the start of 2022, thanks to my wonderful coach, Alli, was to write a letter to future 2023 me. In that letter, I talked a lot about my plan to be kinder to myself. While beating myself up with negative thoughts & anxiety this week, I took a step back and realized, I wasn’t being too nice to myself. So… I flipped the narrative. Instead of focusing on all the negative and anxious things, I made myself a list of all the great things I have done this week to cope.

1. I went a whole week without biting my nails! (another 2022 goal of mine is to stop this awful habit) and despite this week being very stressful I didn’t break that goal☺

2. I made a home-cooked meal every night with my fiancé (we started Hello Fresh as a 2022 goal for the two of us is to get better at cooking)

3. I made myself yummy breakfasts this whole week – my smoothie and overnight oats game has been strong!!

4. I meditated EVERY single morning using the Headspace app and I have to say it is a wonderful way to wake up and after 3 mornings in a row, I now eagerly look forward to my Morning Wake Up video

5. I reached out to my “support group” when I felt completely lost and I CANNOT thank these lovely humans enough. I used to fear asking for help as I always wanted to be “the one who seemed to have it all together” but… that person doesn’t exist and to have that secure feeling of having it all together takes a village and my village has been pretty damn awesome this week!

6. I journaled and wrote this blog post. I have found writing to be a wonderful way to get my feelings out of my head and transform them into what “fills my cup up” the most and that is empowering those around me.

To wrap things up, one of the best things (not on the list) to happen this week to me was that I got an award at my company’s kick-off around our culture value of empowerment. I started this blog four months ago to empower others around me. At the time I was thinking that if I could just empower one person that would be so cool. Seeing how many people this blog has been read by and all the messages that I have been getting about how relatable this content gets me so excited and makes weeks like this one slightly more manageable.

Thank you.