A few days ago I sat working on my laptop, my husband laying resting in the bed next to me, I chose to watch the Movie "We bought a Zoo." A little bit about the beginning of this movie...family of four, mom recently passed away, widowed dad left to raise their two kids alone. It's a good movie about a family that works through their trauma and comes out on the other side truly blessed.
In the first few minutes of this movie, the evidence of trauma comes vividly apparent and you can see that they need a change drastically. That night, as the dad puts the daughter to bed, their neighbors are having a party and she says "Their happy is too loud."
Their family needs a start over.
Have you ever been through something that you just needed a start over? Our family truly has encountered the need for a start over. Health traumas have tainted our life for many years.
Have you ever been through a family situation that turned your life upside down? We have, more than once, and we have lived through it and are on the other side.
Have you ever felt like you just want to erase what happened and start over? Absolutely.
Are you going through something right now that you're having a hard time with? Let's connect.
Have you felt like your "happy" volume has been turned down? Let's check the volume.
I have learned that to find hope in life, I needed something to look forward to yet I had a hard time finding it by myself.
When I turned and focused on my Faith, things seemed to begin to look up. God helped me to see the hope in our life again.
Where do you turn to find hope?
Would you like to start working towards turning the happy volume back up in your life?
Come join my community where we are working towards finding the blessings in life.
In the midst of the chaos, we are finding the Joy in the moments, and turning our happy volume back up.
We are finding FAITH, discovering HOPE, and sharing LOVE.
Have you ever felt like you’ve lost a bit of yourself in life?
Well…I definitely have!! I know how it feels!
I felt like I had lost a part of myself to our many overwhelming life situations. Through all the good and the bad stuff, a part of me felt like it was missing or deeply hidden beneath all the junk in my trunk. And...my trunk was full and heavy.
We had so much going on in our lives, just like soo many families these days.
Our children’s regular activities and going many different directions all at once,
My loves declining health issues (which turned our life upside down),
then my love getting medically retired from his job (possibly us losing our home & our family’s livelihood), the new “fight” with the VA & SSI Disability over benefits,
choosing my love, our vows, and our family over everything else: every single day, in every single situation, every single moment. . .
Our Life, and me included, felt like we jumped on THE HOT MESS EXPRESS!!!
As many of you have experienced yourselves, life has not always been a smooth & easy adventure for sure. Since 2014, life has been very overwhelming. The constant go-go-go, the feelings of being pulled in many different directions at the same time, they all left me feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and unable to fully function.
These feelings of being overwhelmed turned me into a cranky, crabby, sad, some days-angry at the world, emotionally sobbing mess. These feelings turned into added stress, anxiety, and worry. Everything that I had tried could not lift these overwhelmed feelings from me. I showed the world that “everything was fine,” however I was having a hard time keeping my head above water (And honestly, I know how to swim very well!).
Then, I was re-introduced to something. It was something that I truly did not realize I needed, as bad as I needed it, and when I needed it.
Like most moms/spouses, I was always focusing on my family’s needs first, everything else got put on my “back burner.” As soon as I started using it, I started to feel better. There was a sense of calm that would come over me when it was applied. The options that were now available to me and my family have been amazing. That is when I truly realized my journey on the Hot Mess Express was changing course.
I truly have found HOPE through these past 2 years. I felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel, in our life. So, now I am reaching out to others and want to share and serve as best I can. The blessings that have come through the community, love, and support are priceless.
I want to help you find HOPE in your journey as well. Come Join My FB group or Contact me today.
Much love & Blessings!!
Kat
