Check your vision to experience the strength and ease you desire

Last week, I went to the eye doctor for an overdue exam and updated lenses.  At that appointment, the doctor provided me with an option for my contact lenses that I was previously told was not an option for me.  "Really?!?" I asked.  Her response was, "Why not give it a try?"  With that simple encouragement, I did.

As I was leaving that appointment, I realized that I've been wearing the same kind of contact lenses for 33 years!  From the first time I put them in my eyes, they were painful.  As a young teen who desperately wanted to wear contacts and not glasses, I remember leaving the room where I was fitted with the contacts, going to my mom in the waiting room, tears streaming down my face and saying, "I really want these."  As true as that was, in order to have them, I had to learn to override the pain and discomfort of that initial fitting.  And the pain and discomfort for the next 33 years every time that that a speck of dust or mascara would get caught under the lens causing embarrassing and painful locking of my eye until I could pry it open to remove the lens.  

I then realized how much this experience reflects the revelations I've had as I have been working on my Wellness Foundation.  As a middle- aged woman, I have been raised and acculturated to the expectation that I should work full time in a successful career, have a family that at least looks pretty good, be a vital part of my community and be pretty, skinny and nice to boot.  While I want each and every one of these things, doing them all at the same time naturally leads to me actually neglecting myself.  I neglected my basic needs, I accepted unacceptable amounts of stress, I thought there was something wrong with me. I had to learn to override the pain that comes from that neglect.  So that I can get up and do it all over again the next day.

For me, when I finally hit a place that I sought help and support, it was the simple suggestions to slow down, to create more time for my basic needs and for a healthier relationship with myself that caused a similar reaction to what I experienced with the eye doctor: "Really?!? I have permission to do that?"  I decided to try.  Now years into this journey, I still do much of what I did before - I work, I take care of my family, I participate in my community.  But having a stronger Wellness Foundation has helped me to authentically be nicer to myself and others and I am in better physical shape than I used to be when I was doing all of that pushing (that included a lot of working out!).  

I'd love to share with you what I've learned through my own journey and helping other women through theirs.  Check it out @ Vita Wellness.  Vita was created to help you have your own discovery of 
"Really?!?"  To help you create the way of life that actually works for you, even if it's not what you think you have permission to do.  There are so many women out there sharing similar struggles.  Let's take this new journey together!