Be U: Where I'm At

Coming for the Real You.

I'm hoping to share thoughts, fun and insightful information and aha moments with all to better serve ourselves and the universe.

My background is that of Executive Secretary for the local Electric company (11 years).

Certified Personal Trainer (since 1991) and Fitness Consultant for my own company, Beachin Bodies (6 years) and certified in Reiki and Nutrition with training in Cranial Sacral work, Tai Chi, and Meditation. Certified as a Professional Life Coach (2015); Minister at Universal Life Church (2016);

and, possibly, most important,

my own journey through illness and avenues, roads and roadblocks that I have taken to find the real me. (35 plus years).

The me that I was born as. The me that is the all-knowing. I believe the search is endless and we are here to learn and to love and to share it all.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Where I'm At

I'm alive! I'm breathing! I'm excited to see what I am creating next! I am standing strong in who I am.

I'm tried; I'm challenged; I am sad and lost; I am happy and found.

Currently, I am feeling everything. I welcome crying; I welcome laughing.

I'm unsettled in my location and life process and it's the perfect time to build anew.

I trust that I will be better than fine. I'm ready to be forward from where I've been. I hurt. I struggle. I thrive. I live.

I don't have specifics or a story to share. I'm kind of all over the place. I'm experiencing life as I never have before. More aware, more questioning, more allowing and more accepting of what is. I have my truth on. I am connected to it and share it.

I don't have to be in control and yet I do need to stand strong in my conviction that I do have a choice over my reactions to whatever comes my way.

I told my sister today (a fabulous sister who has stuck by my side and allowed me to process my hurt even when it was more than she needed to deal with or would choose to deal with) that I don't want to be a sister who has to be dealt with. I want to be a sister who is joyful and loving to be around.

I saw myself being sad and grumpy (around my sister) like I was owed something because of 'life' not going my way. I 'woke up' and saw that my life wasn't really all that bad and I am very lucky and blessed in many ways; in most ways that matter to me.

I want to be the person that people leave happy; come open to; and share fun with. It is a choice. I choose feeling good.

When I heard myself saying that 'this is awful', a dearest friend of mine said what's so awful about it... I thought and realized while life wasn't going as I imagined, my situation could be so much worse and the true situation that I am living is what's going to propel me into the life situation that I always knew I would live. Florida sunshine, beach, warmth and me! I'm heading to not just spend a few months in Florida, but to have my main home in Florida; be around blue water, palm trees and a climate that I do not have to fear that it would hurt me by turning so cold that my fingers turn blue and my circulation slows way down. A climate that I thrive in and sigh with relief in.

May you know, see, feel and believe that you are creating the life that you know you belong in from the deepest core of your being through whatever is going on around you today.

Live on. Fly high. Share YOU.

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My Past Story

The first thing I would always tell a new doctor was 'my dad left me when I was 10'. He just disappeared, ran away. It was pretty awful for me. I thought it was my fault as most kids sometimes do. I thought I was unlovable. Years later, 20 maybe, I realized it wasn't just that my dad left me that affected my life, but also that my mom stayed. She stayed and I'll be forever grateful. However, her staying wasn't all peaches and creme. She was so hurt, so distraught, so frightened to raise three kids on her own and find a job that it was very hard for her to be there for me and my needs. I chose to shutdown, be quiet and try not to make it any harder on her as to not ask for much, or voice much, or need much.

Years later, in 11/12th grade, I noticed my fingers being really cold and hurting all the time. I noticed them turning purple and the pain was very 'loud'. Humorously enough, I had chosen to be a secretary and typing was a big part of my everyday. I loved it even. Fingers flying across the keyboard with as little mistakes as possible was the goal. I was pretty good at it. While in typing class, I remember putting my hands on my neck to try to warm them and make them feel better. I was naive enough then to think this must be happening to everyone.

Anyway, years went by and nobody was able to tell me why this was happening or what to do to make it better. Then, approximately 4 years later, I remember (what I felt) was little me sitting across from a really big doctor at his really big desk and him telling me I was allergic to myself. Of course, this was him describing to me what auto-immune meant. I had a disease called scleroderma and it could kill me (sometimes in as little as five years) and I would most likely be on medicine and have it for the rest of my life and there was nothing to change it.

Anyway, almost 30 years later, I've had my share of pain and I'm alive. I've had ulcerations on my fingers and I have lost most of my nails on both hands from lack of circulation and producing too much collagen. My hands are somewhat not a pretty sight and to hit something with one of my fingers by accident (well, I refer to the feeling as 'going to the moon).

When I was about 30, I started looking at alternative medicine and I tried anything that came across my path to try to stop the pain. I have tried many normal and not so normal 'ideas'. I sometimes do not believe at what lengths I went to try to ease my pain and suffering!

This is what has brought me here to this point in my life.

I'm grateful to be able to learn so much about myself and life and I wouldn't take it back (well, some days I might want to).

Something was telling me to blog. I really didn't know much about blogging - I am still a novice at best. Approximately 5 weeks ago, I sat at my computer and started typing.

I am surprised at where my blogs have led me. I thought I was trying to help others and that still is a big goal of mine. However, what I am finding out is that this is a great outlet for me.

A way to feel like I'm doing something. I told a friend this morning about my blog and I said that it's draining because I put everything out there and do not hold back as I post each individual blog; its fun because it does give me an outlet and I feel a little purpose in my life; and it's scary because I don't want anyone laughing at me or telling me that I am completely 'off my rocker'!