Keep sipping, gripping and ripping

My new life motto that has gotten me through some curvy roads lately. ⁣⁣
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Full transparency, I’ve been down lately. Throughout my time with chronic illness I’ve battled with depression and anxiety which is no secret. I actually don’t think I’ve gotten through a conversation with a fellow community member only to find that they haven’t battled the same. It’s the nature of the beast I think when we’re talking about something as large and impactful as pain that is with you daily.

So between navigating a new onslaught of back pain that was not on my darn calendar, catching a random death virus that put me down for a week (and was not on my calendar) and the loss of a relationship that just blows, it’s needless to say that things have been rocky.⁣⁣
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Buuuut between the bumps in the road and massive potholes that I feel like I’ve hit while going 100 miles an hour, there has also been a lot of good.
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A lot of good in the form of slowing down, good in the form of open conversations with loved ones that light me up and make me remember who I am in this life, and good in the form of recognizing that closed doors are just redirections we aren’t meant to fully understand but rather trust the process.

So if you’ve been down, in a funk or feel like life is throwing total shit at you, I feel you friend. Keep sipping, gripping and ripping and know that it’s all part of the process.

You’ve got this. We’ve got this.

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