“Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New”

I’m not very good at this. Yup, I said it. Blogging and talking our journey does not come easy to me.

You spend your entire life working towards the future. You spend your high-school years learning all the basics. You move on to college and find out who you are. You find your passion. When you get out of college and start your true adult life (I know, what a millennial thing to say right?), you find what you are truly good at and what works. You hone your skills. You earn a paycheck. 

This is the path I followed, with a few bumps along the way. I was always sure to pick subjects to study that I could excel at. Whether it was political science or speech and language, I absolutely loved earning both degrees because they lit a passion in me and I was good at them! My brain works in a black and white way when it comes to learning. Facts and ideas go hand in hand. I thrive following a directive and knowing the end result. 

1. Go to undergrad for Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences

2. Get my masters in Speech Pathology

3. Provide speech therapy to people

Clear cut directions to follow to achieve my goal – My kind of plan! 

But, when life throws lemons at your face, you pick them all up and make Lemon pie! 

When we got Olivia’s PFV diagnosis, we were also told we would have to patch her for at least 2 hours a day. Then she was diagnosed with 14 food allergies. So needless to say, our life changed and finishing graduate school at this time just wasn’t in the cards. And that’s okay! If I’ve learned anything with my career change it’s that the universe is going to push you in the direction you are supposed to be facing, you just have to have the courage to accept a new perspective.

But here’s the thing, my perfect plan, my perfect timeline of how to be successful, went out the window when I withdrew from graduate school and started my blog. I have always had a true love for writing and have a burning fire under me to advocate for other people with eye related issues and life threatening food allergies! But, I have no clue how to create a media platform that people want to read. I feel super uncomfortable in front of stories and really insecure that what I am talking about, is of no interest to anyone else but me!

And then I read this quote yesterday on social, “Be brave enough to suck at something new”

I realized right then that well, thats me! I do suck at this! And that’s okay, because this is something completely new. There is no manual telling you the 1, 2, 3’s of how to take off in blogging – if this exists, please DM the link! 

The good things in the life, the parts worth fighting for, are not going to be easy. You are not going to be good at this right away. I have learned so much in the past year about blogging sites and instagram platforms. Ive met lifelong friends that I’ve connected with on such a personal level. 

What I hope more than anything, is that I can create a platform that other food allergy moms, pfv moms, moms in general who might be struggling at this entire mom thing, can come to. I want my blog/instagram to be a place of support and a place to find a new perspective on life. No, it usually doesn’t go the way we planned. But that’s why life is so beautiful. Never in a million years would I have imagined I would be a stay at home mom, making homemade safe food for my amazing, beautiful toddler while she does her patch therapy. That I would spend my afternoon nap times (attempting) to create content and writing about how I feel in a blog that someone might want to read! I never imagined that this new way of life would leave me feeling fulfilled but here I am. A mom struggling to find her way, sucking at a new career but with each passing day, getting a little more confident in this new space (cue new baby, am I right?) 

So, here’s to a new beginning. Here’s to fully sucking at something new. A new perspective into our day to day life. Thanks for coming along for the ride.