To New Endeavors....

It's February 28, 2022 and tonight I'm closing the door on another chapter. I think I had actually closed it a long time ago after I had gotten sick. I tried to reopen it a few times along the way, keeping the door ajar but this time, the door is closed. And I am keeping it closed and maybe even locked for a bit.

Don't worry, it's nothing bad....I'm just officially resigned from teaching! I am no longer an employee of the school district that I had been employed by for the past several years.

And tomorrow, March 1, 2022 I start on a new opportunity that I am so excited about!!

Throughout the past few years I have learned so much - about myself, about others and about the world around me, but it wasn't until very recently that I realized that it is okay to walk away from things that aren't serving you anymore. That life experiences can change you and can change the way you look at the world, at your life and that it's okay to close doors and change directions, as many times as you need to! And that closing a door is not the same as giving up... it's just moving to a different door that can lead to a new path. Life has a funny way of making us know when it is time to move on. And trauma has a funny way of actually making us make it happen.

I always thought teaching was going to be for me. And maybe it still is. But throughout my battle with breast cancer, I've come to have a new passion. It involves teaching, just in a different way. It's teaching and helping and supporting and creating and planning and motivating and doing all of the things for the breast cancer community, that I had and needed and still need within my own journey. Now with this new role, I get to do just that for other breast cancer survivors and thrivers!! I get to reach so many people and connect with so many other patients and professionals within the breast cancer world and the healthcare field!

As of tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1, 2022 I am the new Outreach and Program Coordinator for the Princeton YWCA's Breast Cancer Resource Center... the same organization that has helped me and continues to help me throughout my own journey!! So I move on from teaching the little ones, to helping and teaching other women, and men, out there how to help save their own lives and the lives of their loved ones and how to help navigate this gd awful disease, if it ever comes to be. From the education field, to the healthcare field I go.... and I am so excited about this new door and this new path!!!

With that all being said, I'll go ahead and put my own plug in here and say - if you or anyone you know would like to plan a program with me (still over Zoom right now) with their workplace, organization, with their teens, colleges or sororities on breast health and knowing what to look for, please reach out to me!! I'm ready to get you on my schedule! :o)

To all of my education folks - thanks for the memories. To all of my breast cancer friends out there, I'm coming and I'm ready!!