Hello blog world!
In the words of an old song by Staind, “it’s been awhile.” Raise your hands kids if you’re one of my 1.5 readers and are still hanging around here.
I started this blog, hard to believe, 10 years ago. It was with the intent to offer sound and practical diet and nutrition ideas in a world bombarded with nonsense in that arena. May I say, the nonsense still abounds. I won’t get started today on the newest hypes with the diet drugs being pushed or the quick fix instant gratification schemes.
Other aspects of wellness include mental, spiritual and emotional health as well to which I hope to branch out into.
You see, in my absence I’ve had a lot of life to live, pain to bear, and deep grief to carry. I’ve navigated much in these past couple years with the loss of my husband, a man I spent over 40 years of my life with.
Grief and loss. It will visit us all in this lifetime and it’s never easy.
I will say as I’ve been on this journey, I’ve learned, grown, cried, pushed forward, cried again, had days where I couldn’t get off the sofa, asked the hard questions, prayed and journaled my thoughts and pain onto paper. I’ve not run from my grief but have allowed it to do what is necessary for me to keep moving forward.
In these two years since his loss I’ve lived a surreal, whirlwind life and I’ve embraced it all.
In this learning and growing, I’ve packed a lot into my life suitcase I carry. Much like the old box we may keep in our closet with pictures, mementos, and other scraps of our life we plan to assemble into a tidy book.
A reflection of our travels if you will, that is how I feel in this journey I’ve been on.
I want to share and unpack what I’ve learned, how I’ve grown, and the faithfulness of God to see me through some of my darkest days.
I feel confident I’m not alone in this journey and you my readers, or others, may be out there at a loss for words or unsure how to unpack this suitcase of life’s souvenirs.
My blog offers the perfect background to unpack my thoughts. As life goes on people assume you kinda get over things and move on.
You never get over it and I haven’t “moved on”, but I have “moved forward”.
There’s a difference.
Even in my grief, I’ve held onto life, to living and savoring every single day I’ve been blessed with.
I hope you will come along with me on this journey as I unpack my suitcase of lessons learned, thoughts gathered, and life lived.
I hope you will pull up a chair, maybe wiping your own tears as you do, and find that you aren’t on this journey alone.
sassyfitnesschick 