by Hope
I noticed a grievance about me not responding to feedback. I apologize for that. Between my two jobs, I’m staying actually, actually busy (not a grievance, simply information.) I’m in mattress early each night time and up earlier than the solar to go once more.
Nonetheless, I do learn them, each single one. They’re delivered to my Inbox and I scan them all through the day. Some make me snicker (pretend me, pretend household = theatre troup), some make me mad (I do know that’s on me as a result of nobody could make you are feeling), some embarrass me and make me really feel disgrace for the horrible decisions I’ve made and proceed to make, after which there’s people who make sense and open my eyes a bit.
Psychological Well being
Like ADHD? I’ve by no means thought-about that. And have a tough time wrapping my mind round it actually. I’ve run my life off lists and calendars for ever. I run my work life the identical. Every thing is calendared, months upfront. Daily I run by means of checklists for what must be executed, each personally and professionally.
Anybody who has learn right here lengthy is aware of that I’m simply popping out of a HUGE transition time in my life. The final a number of years have been nothing however dramatic adjustments, essential folks exiting my life (my failed engagement about killed me), and the children all being grown and shifting away (yeah for them, extremely unhappy and overwhelming for me).
I’m simply now studying to embrace my regular. Setting boundaries. And studying and embracing who I’m as center aged girl.
I don’t know if I’ve talked about it earlier than, however I’m on a low dose anti-depressant (Lexapro). I’ve been on it for essentially the most half since all of the challenges with Gymnast as a youngster that led to him shifting to his dad’s for his seventh/eighth grade yr of faculty.
However perhaps…
Perhaps there may be extra work to do. Perhaps a while with a counselor is required. Please stick with it with the powerful love. Please preserve pointing me in the fitting route. I promise I’m listening.

Hope is a artistic, solutions-focused enterprise supervisor serving to shoppers develop their enterprise and work extra effectively by leveraging experience in undertaking administration, digital advertising and marketing, & tech options. She’s lately develop into an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive children have unfold their wings. She lives together with her 5 canine in a small city in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the seashores any day. She struggles with the journey bug and is doing her finest to assist every of her children as their end education and develop into unbiased (but it surely’s laborious!) She has run her personal consulting firm for nearly twenty years! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD neighborhood within the Spring of 2015 and appears like she has lastly in a spot to essentially give attention to making sensible monetary selections.