START OF MY NEW CAREER

After years of being unhappy with my nursing career, I decided I was going to stop doing what I thought I was suppose to do and persue my dreams. Since moving to the Vancouver area of Washington, I have gotten involved with an amazing organization called barre3. I am not just involved, I am obsessed. Besides my children I have never came across something that feels so much like home. It clicked with me from the very first class. The owner, Carrie, truely has a gift and she has chosen some truely talented insturctors. barre3 makes you feel good about yourself, wanting to possibly someday make your body your friend, someone that you acutally love. Thru barre3 and my new love of yoga, I have aquired a desire to change my career path. The once monotonous job of going into Portland every day, dealing with the challenges of trying to help sick people is gone...I have embraced this new adventure. Now I just had to convince my family to get on board.

After long talks with Mark, Chris (myex) and my parents, I decided to sign up for teacher training classes through Soham Yoga in Oregon City. Was I scared? Hell ya, shitless...Gone are the days of going to LuLu Lemon when ever I wanted to buy an outfit, gone were the days of eating out every weekend, getting starbucks a couple times a week, gone were the days of my nails getting shelac'd....gone are the days of my hair extensions...oh wait, no how could I justify that one???? Oh, I will find a way to make that one happen. ha, Putting the silliness and selfishness aside...I was choosing to not let fear stop me from attaining my dreams...I was saying yes to putting dinner on the table every night, yes to picking my adorabe 11 year old from school every day, yes to taking my son to bball practice day after day, yes to taking my dog on daily walks in the daytime, saying no to not needing my 20 year old nanny to manage my children. I was saying yes to my life. My future.