New Year, New Chapters, Same Journey

It has been a little more than one year since my last post. Honestly, I didn’t know if blogging was really worth it any longer. For so many reasons, these words feel so vain, empty and attention seeking to me.

And honestly, I had been met with so much depression that finding the motivation to even sit down and write has been difficult.

The last couple of months, though, have been transformative for me. I’m still learning to handle my mental illness, but I’ve also felt more compelled than ever to just write.

Why?

Well, why not?

It’s so cliché, but there were so many hardships in 2020, so many silently fought battles that having someone else who just might understand what it is you’re going through makes it all a little easier to deal with, right?

I certainly believe so as I’ve found people to follow on social media who align with where I am and where I want to be mentally, emotionally, and professionally. I’ve attempted to be “friends,” if you will, with these people, too, and each time, I’m met with support.

If I can also be that support, I want to do whatever it is I can to help.

So here’s a quick update. Justin and I moved to the Kansas City metro area in late January, early February. We purchased a house in October.

He is a paramedic for Johnson County, Kansas, and I’m working for Senior Dental Care accessing electronic medical records for seniors in nursing homes around the country in order to provide them with dental care.

I’m still going to school to pursue a career in dental hygiene. I recently applied to a local community college’s program, and I’m hoping to move forward in the process. I have shadowed a couple of hygienists recently, and I couldn’t be more certain that this is the right path for me.

With all this said, I have changed therapists for obvious reasons. More to come on this, but my time with the one I see now has been life changing, albeit some of the hardest realities I’ve had to face.

Justin and I both really enjoy the area, though I can’t say we’ve done much exploring of local hot spots since we were here a whopping two months before everything shut down. We are slowly changing that, and what we’ve experienced really only makes us enjoy the area even more. I feel so fortunate to be where we are right now, and I couldn’t be more proud of the hard work my husband does in order to help provide for our family.

To boot, Ellie really loves having her own backyard.

I’m pretty sure I said it last year that I wanted to be more consistent with writing this blog. Clearly, I failed in doing so, but this feels a little different right now. I’ve learned a lot about myself this last year, battling things I never thought I would need to, so this feels more important to me now more than it did last year.

Here’s to a renewed sense of importance and, really, 2021.