Doing something for ME.

So as my previous post states, I'm good disguising the pain, but the truth is, I've been struggling with life and finding my place. Sometimes I'm SO generous and giving with my time and resources that I get taken advantage of and forget that other people are only out for themselves. It's frustrating.

So in an effort to refocus, I'm just trying to take one day at a time and focus on myself. ME. Giving back to myself. And doing things I want to do, while trying to be the best mama and wife I can be.

I changed my medications. I took the initiative and met with a great psychiatrist and got on more of a long-term maintenance rather than the quick fix I had been prescribed for the past year and a half.

We've gotten out more. Changed our eating a little bit. I feel better.

And a few weekends ago, I finally did something that I've been wanting to do for a long time for ME.

I became a licensed Zumba Fitness instructor.

I started taking a Zumba class twice a week a year and a half ago, and soon, I was taking it four nights a week. It felt good to sweat. It felt good to dance. It felt good to get the blood pumping.

So I contemplated it for awhile.

Should I? Or shouldn't I?

And so finally I took a leap of faith, and did it.

And after a gruelling 9A-6P day, with a Master Class and lots of lectures and dancing...

I am licensed to teach Zumba.

I'm excited to see what possibilities this will open for me. My Zumba instructor and mentor, graciously let me demonstrate and perfect some of my routines in her class and I'm officially booked to sub my first class on May 14th. AH!

Hopefully subbing will open up doors for me. But for now, I get the opportunity to be paid to do something I love and I am so excited.

And if you haven't joined the party, find a local class and join in. You won't regret it!