Restoring my soul.

The past few years have seen me try many new adventures or ventures.  I am still trying out new things.  I have just begun a venture with Tupperware as a consultant and all that, that entails.  Parties and sales and meeting new people and learning new skills.  All very important things to do.

As I get older I am more and more aware of the need to keep learning, the need to explore and find out new things or rediscover old things that I had forgotten I knew.  the more I learn the more I want to know about other things.  Expanding my knowledge and growing as a person are life long endeavours.  Ones I balance with my family obligations as wife and mother to three teenagers.  As my children grow older and prepare to leave the nest and break their apron strings the more I need to find myself and my calling.  Empty nest is around the corner and I hope that empty mind does not come with it.

Hence why I am currently enrolled in a Degree and a Diploma. I am running not one but two businesses. I have taken on the challenge of coaching an under 14 boys Basketball team.  Developing a mentoring program for boys and girls within the basketball community. All of this on top of working part time in a liquor store and running a household.

All of these endeavours not only teach me about the world around me they each in their own way teach me something new about myself.  Perseverance, Endurance, staying the course, tenacity, stress relief, stubborness, self reliance, self-esteem,personal development, physical development and empathy.

I realise that all of this “busyness” requires a certain level of self awareness and the necessity for time out.  Yoga and Meditation are my saving grace and have helped me to slow down the replaying of my “I’m not worthy” story over and over again.  I am more focused and more intense.  Yoga works my body and gives me time to make my mind still – 90 minutes in a Bikram Yoga hot room not only removes toxins from my body it settles my mind and leaves me almost euphoric.

I am loving the affair with myself and I can’t wait for the next edition of my story.