Who would have thought it’d be me?

Who would have thought I'd get to this point??

Surely not me.

But here I am. Creating dreams for myself I never thought I'd live to have.

So let's talk about it?

Drugs destroyed the years I should have been living the college life... then sobriety, raising children and being a partner took over who I was. I felt like I was no longer "me" but rather just the jobs I was doing. I was a mom, I was a taxi driver, the bread winner, the nurse & someones partner. I felt like I was lost and was never going to be me again.

Then when I lost my mom it just got worse. Wrapped up in a world of grief I didn't know how to navigate through trying to learn how to live this new life without my mom was almost impossible (or so I felt)

Then one day. It just clicked. If I wanted to feel like me again. I needed to put in the work to get there. The first step was going back to work, then going back to school and now it's finishing my educational journey at UMASS Amherst.

I'm not sure where I'm headed. But I know that through this new chapter of my life I will become more "me" than I am today. I will continue to learn things about myself.. somethings I didn't want to learn and something I secretly needed to learn but regardless I am excited to roll with it.

Here's to not just being a mom or partner. But to being me all over again