The year 2022 was a fabulous year for me. I married an amazing man that loves and respects me, and loves my daughter, and spent two weeks in the South Pacific on the honeymoon of our dreams. We birthed and homed a litter of puppies to help reclaim an amazing breed of dogs that have truly enhanced our lives, and advanced some fabulous home improvements on our beautiful coastal home. I have everything I could ever want in life and I’m happy!! But when the calendar turned to 2023, as happy as I was, I knew a change was needed! While life had brought me some amazing things this year, I had essentially been living my day to day life in a fog, moving from moment to moment just letting life happen.
Like most middle-aged women, I have been steadily gaining weight since I turned 40. I have tried over and over again to turn the tide…diets, apps, meal plans, you name it. Nothing sticks and the scale continues to rise year after year. I’m hip to the times and even though I can love this body, it’s not a healthy one and that needs to change.
I also love photography, chasing waterfalls, hiking the great outdoors and anything to do with the ocean. I used to long for a chance to work from home so that I could use the extra time in the mornings to go out on the beach with my dog and my camera. Thanks to post-pandemic silver linings, I work from home 3 out of every 4 weeks, and I haven’t taken my camera or my dog on our beach once in 3 years, despite many plans to the contrary.
I’ve spent time reflecting, talked to life coaches, created vision boards. I’m happy and there are things I truly enjoy and want to spend my time doing, yet no matter what I’ve tried, I can’t seem to find the motivation to get up and just do it! I’ve even suffered tragic loss and know how important it is to live in the moment, but my warm bed seems to trump all else until it’s time for work in the morning.
When the calendar turned and it was time for another New Years resolution, I decided this is the year that all stops. I have declared war on my procrastinating ways and have pulled out all the stops. I enlisted the help of a wellness coach, a nutritionist and a therapist to help me find my motivation. There are many factors contributing, and lots to cope with, including physical ailments like Hashimoto’s Disease and and neurological gifts like ADHD. So far we’ve managed to move this little engine that couldn’t out of the station and ready to face the mountain. The key to moving me forward has been baby steps, valuing progress over perfection, and a greater purpose. That is where this blog comes in.
Years ago I had the idea for a travel photography blog and YouTube channel. Yes, I know, me and everyone else! Well like many others, I’m sure, impostor syndrome and the flood of the market intimidated me and I decided the world didn’t need another travel photographer so I abandoned my plans. I didn’t consider that it didn’t matter what the world needs, it only matters what I need. I take these photographs to share these moments and spread the beauty of the world, and that’s what I need to do. Share them. To share them, I need content, to get content I need to get out and find it, creating a beautiful circle of motivation.
So while I really hope you enjoy my musings and find peace, harmony and beauty in the memories I freeze in time…this blog is for me. An outlet for my creativity, but more importantly, my source of motivation to do the things I love to do and pull myself out of the fog to smell that wonderful salty air and SEAS THE DAY!!!
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