River Rides and Life Changes

Do you remember what it's like to lay back in the summer sun on the warm squishy black innertube and let the river gently carry you? Not a care in the world. Just going with the flow and allowing your energy to settle into the present moment.

Life is similar, really. It has a way of guiding us through seasons of change, and right now, both personally and professionally, I find myself in the midst of profound transitions. On one hand, I am navigating the shifting tides of perimenopause - which, if you know, you know. As we say here in Wisconsin "uff da!" In future posts, I will discuss in greater detail how I am doing what is best for me during this season. What has worked and what hasn't worked for me. On the other side of my life, Jeff is stepping fully into his new chapter, transitioning from corporate healthcare to running the business alongside me. We are both learning how to support each other, yet maintain our identities. That's not an easy feat. Considering we are both so invested in each other, as well as the business. It can be so easy to lose one's sense of self.

One of the key lessons I am currently integrating is acceptance. I have stepped into this space of accepting who I am and who I am becoming. My body is changing. With that change has come a little weight gain. Despite what I do, how little I eat, or how much I exercise, it doesn't change. I used to fight this reality with extreme dieting or working out in hopes it would shift. It hasn't. What has changed is the current. The river of life is taking me to a place of acceptance of my authentic self. When we focus on our true nature, the physical body becomes more like an "earth suit." Balance really. I need this body. But the soul inside is vastly greater.

Around this next bend in the river, we find that Jeff and I are soon to be full-time business owners. It's terrifyingly exciting. This is something we talked about roughly a week after we first met in 2018! May 5th, 2025, that dream will manifest for us. The excitement, mixed with fear, is much like spotting rapids up ahead during your river float. Looks fun but scary, but fun!

Like a river, life keeps moving- twisting, turning, sometimes calm, sometimes wild with rapids. Floating through this season, we are both learning to surrender to the current rather than fight it. Change is rarely easy. In my own experience anyway, but in the flow of it all, we're discovering deeper layers of who we are-individually and together. And maybe that's the gift of the river; not just where it's taking us, but who we become along the way.