Oh my goodness, friends! I woke up at 6:30 (that in itself isn’t unusual) and I was motivated! Today, I actually needed to work (that is unusual). I was subbing for Sunshine at her BNI networking group that meets in the tech center. As you may or may not know, I work very part-time for an amazing photographer, Sunshine, and her photography business, Silver Sparrow Photography ,as an at home office assistant. Today was a rare instance that I not only was working but I was doing so outside the house.
And because I didn’t want to lose momentum in controlling my narrative, I was up and motivated… motivated to be on my yoga mat… and I was on the mat by 7:10! I did the pilates video again (I like this video and probably will stick with this one a bit until I feel like I can do all poses correctly), and even though my body was tired and sore I was so proud of myself for sticking with it today.
I was out of the shower, dressed and styling my hair before 8:30. I danced around to my favorite “give me confidence” music… Illenium… while getting ready and even remembered to take time for my coffee and pills.
I’ve been struggling a lot with my self-image and confidence with my weight gain, and today, well, today, I feel like I slayed it! Which, in turn, helped me feel confident in speaking in front of the networking group.
This BNI group was amazing! They were so welcoming and supportive of each other’s businesses. I can see why Sunshine likes this group. But what put them on top for me was I got snuggles from a doggo. And of course, in true Corrine fashion, I introduced myself to the doggo first (Archie) and then found out the owners name and business after (Jessica-massage therapy).
I was also mesmerized by these light fixtures within the conference room.
On my way home from the meeting, I stopped by the store and picked up a refill of my ever growing stack of medications and a couple other things and several bunches of flowers. I found orange roses as my base and was able to find a wide variety of flowers to make a stunning bouquet 💐 of oranges, pinks and purples. Which is great for this week as Orange is the color for the MS support ribbons and the MS Walk is Saturday.
While I made the bouquet, Scott prepped and cut veggies for us to have a quick salad lunch before hopping on our couples therapy session. We have been seeing our therapist since last year as the weight of my diagnosis and other life challenges seemed to have built up. I love normalizing therapy. Just because you are in therapy doesn’t mean things are horrible it just means that you are recognizing there’s a shift and you’d rather address them and work through them rather than ignore them letting it grow and fester. Scott and I wanted to address our communication style and quality time, especially as my diagnosis now puts Scott in a caregiver role once in a while. Our session today was the first in over a month and a half as we’ve had to reschedule a few times.
We’ve been on the cusp of not needing our therapist anymore and today before our session, we realized that even with the craziness of these past few weeks we haven’t felt a disconnect from each other, so today we made the decision that today’s session would be our last. Our therapist, Samantha, is amazing and is so excited for us. She’s been our champion and has told us from the beginning how wonderful it is to see a couple so in love with each other and that it was the highlight of her week to see us.
I love that we continue to work on us… both as individuals and as a couple. Yay us!
We went and visited Scott’s mom this afternoon. I still feel so fortunate that our lives now let us support our parents. All our years of shift work and not being available and now we have the flexibility to help and visit. Scott said recently that what he loves most about this time is to be able to hear the stories… I think we forget how much importance stories have.
Then, this evening, we were able to curl on the couch and enjoy each other while watching the Great British Bakeoff. It’s been a few days since we’ve had downtime so it was nice to relax. Plus, thinking of stories… we got to have several laugh until almost pee moments with Ashlynn and our “other daughter” Faith as they were showing us photos and filling us in on the past few days.
I’m sleepy as I meant to write this earlier today, and now here it is past midnight. Tomorrow brings laundry day for me, and I’m making a taco ring for dinner so we can watch game 6 of the Avs/Stars playoff hockey. I hope that the morning brings more opportunities to build my confidence, for now… it’s bedtime. I’m excited to listen to the rain as I fall asleep.
As always, peace and love my friends and enjoy your cups ☕️
(I had to go back in and revise a bit…I fell asleep while writing this last night and didn’t read through before posting).