Hello again after almost 4 years of not writing a blog post! I’m back and I can’t believe it. So much has changed since my last entry back in January of 2021. I look back on this website and realize how much I’ve grown as a person. I think I’ve always had a desire to grow and evolve but I never foresaw what would happen these last four years.
I’ve experienced what you’d call an awakening of sorts on my journey to seeking truth. I’ve deepened my connection with God and my Catholic faith, I’ve grown a massive interest in politics and I feel this deep desire to give back in a way that feels aligned with who I am now. I have so many ideas for this blog and all of a sudden feel so inspired to write to you all again, Alleluia! I can’t wait to share more about our Catholic faith, God, what I’ve learned on our fertility journey, healthy living and current events just to name a few ideas I have! I’ve grown so passionate about living a life aligned with Christ! Here are a few updates and highlights since January 2021…
In 2021, I was still actively creating content for brands… I had a few fun collabs with a Remington a hair tool, Alderbrook, a luxury hotel in Washington, authentication nation, went to Vegas with family, saw friends in California and Minnesota, we officially started trying for a baby in the spring, my brother got married. Started working on the Fellowship team at work as an infusion nurse, went to Tulum… and I will never forget this conversation I had with Teresa who was a fellow content creator on our retreat and we were openly talking about some health stuff and that’s when I felt things were beginning to shift for me.
In 2022… Ann and I went on a bff trip to Vegas, I was shifting more into fashion content on IG, I went to Asia for the first time to Japan and Vietnam, started acupuncture for the first time and this was I would say, one of the darkest times of my life. I remembering being at my wits end in Vietnam, crying over getting my period like legit sobbing my brains out… feeling like I had nothing else to live for and on that same trip, I landed in Thailand and found out twitch had died by so called suicide and something just completely switched for me. Something woke up inside me and I started beginning to understand the difference between good and evil and the spiritual war at play every single day in our lives.
2023, I was still doing monthly clothing collabs which was a ton of fun! Still working as an infusion RN up until fall when a PDS position FINALLY opened up at SCI! I applied, got the job it’s been the best decision I’ve made so far, career-wise! I was really worried about working full time, but boy this position has given me more flexibility, weird to say I know but I also felt like I really kinda grew up when I got the full time gig lol. I won a scholarship at work to attend ONS Congress in San Antonio for the first time and that was an absolute blast!
As far as fertility, we were deep in our fertility struggles. I was doing acupuncture, on a bunch of supplements through Dr. Sklar, my PMS symptoms were slowly getting better! Instead of 10/10 pain every cycle, it was only happening on days 1 and 3, still painful but could be managed by a lot of natural remedies like ginger, turmeric, tinctures, etc. And this was when I was beginning to open my eyes to the power of natural remedies! I just thought man how beautiful that God has created these things in nature for us to help heal our bodies! I was still working on leaning into having faith in God and I felt like my relationship with him was growing but I wasn’t as serious as it is now.
We were so inspired by our global travels that I wanted to check out Europe for a change. It was sparked by the Our Rich Journey group we joined, and Hoan was like oh hey their meet up is in Portugal and honestly Europe was never on my radar and I was like, I’m down! And man, did that blow my mind!! I feel like that trip was a catalyst into my perspective of the world, and life. Maybe I’ll talk about that another time…
In other news, my brother had a baby!!! He was the greatest gift to my side of the family!! Oh and we got LUCKY too!!!! Our nieces and nephews also gave us so much joy and really gave me so much love I didn’t know I needed, Mother’s day this year was honestly kinda heartbreaking but Hoan’s family did a mother’s day celebration and I even got celebrated for my God Mother duties. Like ugh! How sweet was that… I’m tearing up as I write that… <3 Gosh, 2023 was such a blessing of a year despite having to go through so much with our infertility journey. I realized I wanted to continue to seek out God and goodness and I really felt God gave that to us in 2023.
As for 2024… Let’s do that in another post. Boy, if you’ve gotten this far. Thank you for your time and love! I cherish you more than you know!! God bless and so happy to be back <3
