2022: My Year of Awakening

I always enjoy the energy of the New Year. There is a collective aura of excitement, reflection, and anticipation. I am excited to begin this journey ... one of self-discovery as a writer, poet, creator, and community member. I reflect on not only this past year, but the past 20 years as I enter a new phase of my life completely, this NFT life. I am filled with anticipation about where this year will lead me!

**If you don't know about NFTs, don't worry, I will explain more in subsequent posts!**

I have a few notable intentions for this coming year.

1. Healing: I have allowed myself to be mismanaged by my own mind, in addition to outside influences. I have exposed myself to extensive stress over the years, both from within and from the environment. Stress is very damaging to the body, mind, and soul. This year I want to really investigate my inner strengths and to address my inner struggles in order to alleviate the stresses I have experienced for too long.

2. Nutrition: I have a dysfunctional relationship with food. I put terrible foods into my body that serve absolutely no purpose to my overall health and wellness. I need to make serious changes in the way I view food, and what I consume. Food (and water) is the fuel for the body, mind, and soul, and I need to eat to fuel, not to just feel full.

3. Exercise: I used to dance ALL the time. I studied dance for most of my childhood. I enjoyed dancing, even just in my living room. As I grew older, life got in the way, or I got in my own way, and my desire to dance diminished. I recently realized, however, that dance was an integral part of my development. Dancing is one my tools for releasing negative energies and for generating positive energies. I want to explore the power of music and movement again and work to feel good in my own skin.

4. Journaling: I have always had an innate desire to write. Somehow, again, this is an activity that I embraced as a young adult, but at one point in my life, I literally burned or shredded everything I ever wrote. I thought I was letting go of baggage, but I was really burning a bridge to inner self. I stopped writing regularly and it has been another factor to how lost I became over the past 20 years of my life.

And so begins this blog. This is my first step into my future as a writer, a wife, a mom, and so much more... I have a story to tell. I truly feel as though I am awakening from a slumber that began over two decades ago.

A new year, a new perspective, a new adventure.