The Year Everything Changed (Again)

Well, hello there! 

I can’t believe its been almost a year since my last post… and what a year it has been!

Around this time last year I was ramping up Virtually Maggie, but still really struggling to gain traction, find direction, and make the big changes I needed to make in order to move forward in life. 

I had moved myself and Woods back to my Dad’s house, barely made enough to pay off debt, and had no clue how or when something was going to happen to create change. 

I didn’t feel like a person, really. I felt like a shell that was grasping for all the things that used to make me who I was, but not knowing how to hold onto it and tie it in to what my life had become. 

Not only that, but I has sifting through the life I was grieving. The life I thought I was building that came crashing down around me. 

And now – thank goodness it all happened the way it did. Could it have been easier? Sure. But, where’s the character building, the creative sparks, and rebuilding from the ground up if its easy? 

I needed the hard. I needed to hit my rock bottom to really start fresh. I know I was lucky to have a parent to fall back on. It could have been so much harder. 

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Now?

I have a new job (and a promotion), my own apartment, a passport with stamps on it, and I’m building a life that actually feels like mine.

I took Woods on our first hike.
I booked the trip.
I said yes to new things.
I stopped waiting.

And somehow, along the way, everything shifted.

Over the next few posts, I’m sharing what changed—because honestly, I’m still processing it myself.

This feels like the start of something really good 🤍

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