Learning To Let Go!!!

Hey all, I am sorry I haven't updated in a while. I have been very busy trying to get all of my insurance contracts in order so that I can bill insurance.....Almost there! I am so excited that I will soon be able to start helping people while using their insurance so that the cost of therapy is not a financial burden!

This week I wanted to talk about learning to let go. This is a topic that I feel a lot of people can benefit from because we tend to hold on to things even when they are hurting us. We hold on to anger, guilt, blame, hurts, and many other emotions and feelings that do not help us. I am here to tell you that it is okay to let go! I believe often times we are confused about what letting go means. Letting go does not mean that you are okay with what happened, it doesn't mean that you accept what happened to you as right, it means you are choosing to not carry the burden of that pain into the future with you. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 37. I underwent a double mastectomy and because my cancer was hormone induced they had to take my ovaries out as well. I had to be on a hormone blocker that had a lot of unpleasant side effects for many years. It took me a while to realize how angry I was about the things that cancer took from me, and the things that I was still allowing cancer to take from me. I had to sit in my feelings for a little while before I realized that holding on to that anger was not only hurting me, it was holding me back from living my life to the fullest! Choosing to let go of that anger does not mean that I am okay with the cards that were dealt, it means I am not going to allow it to take anything else from me. I took my power back when I decided that I was going to let go and move forward! Does that mean that I never had days that I am sad or days when it still feels very unfair to have been sent into menopause at such a young age? Of course not, it means I am human and I am allowed to have my feelings and that some days those feelings still get the best of me, but it does mean that I don't carry that weight everyday. I don't give the anger and my own emotions about cancer the power to hold me hostage any longer. Many things happen to us, many things in life are unfair and out of our control and it is 100% normal to have feelings about those things, but we need to learn that it is also okay to let those negative feelings go. It does not mean that we are okay with whatever happened, it simply means we are putting down the weight of it and not carrying it into our future!

Thank you for taking the time to read this, if you or someone you know needs help learning to let go, please feel free to reach out to me! I am here to help. I am also now in network with Aetna, United/ Optum, Cigna and will be with BlueCross BlueShield in the next couple of weeks!