The older I get, the sooner the years go…so it is sensible that 2022 flew by in a blink. Compared with earlier years, this was a extremely, actually good one, although it was not with out its challenges. My phrase for the yr was PERSEVERE, which I selected with the intention to “simply hold going” it doesn’t matter what curveballs got here my method. As has been my apply for the previous a number of years, I didn’t set any large, lofty objectives; reasonably, I wished to give attention to residing my phrase with none further stress (as a result of my common each day life brings greater than sufficient of that!).
And persevere I (we) did. In February, my mother-in-law was in a near-fatal automobile accident, and spent virtually two months within the hospital. This was a scary and irritating time for our complete household, however particularly my husband, who needed to cope with many logistics on prime of worrying about his mother’s restoration. Fortunately, she did make a full restoration, and we have been all in a position to have a good time along with a household trip on Grand Cayman Island.
This previous fall, I persevered by way of an extremely difficult semester of graduate college. Over the summer season, I modified my focus from scientific psychological well being counseling to marriage, {couples} and household counseling, which necessitated taking an additional course. So I tackled 4 complete programs (3 of which have been very heavy on studying and assignments) along with a brand new graduate assistantship—on prime of operating my companies and being a mother—and got here out of the semester with As throughout the board. I’m fairly darn happy with that achievement.
Along with our Cayman Island trip, we traveled greater than we have now in a very long time: Disney World, Newport Seashore, Chicago, Marco Island, Aruba, West Palm Seashore, and lots of, many soccer tournaments throughout Illinois and Missouri. We persevered by way of some loopy journey snafus and plenty of homework on airplanes and in lodge rooms.
Journey is de facto necessary to my household, and we have already got a number of journeys deliberate for 2023. In reality, we’re kicking off the yr with a trek to Costa Rica in celebration of my husband’s fortieth birthday. Our journey plans, along with my yr forward of scientific fieldwork as a counselor, impressed my phrase for the yr: VENTURESOME.
I by no means thought-about myself to be a very daring, risk-taking individual (regardless of my resolution to depart a snug full-time job with soft advantages with the intention to pursue self-employment at age 27) till 2021, once I took the plunge right into a (second) graduate program to change into a counselor. That took guts, however I do know that I’ll want much more braveness, confidence and tenacity as I enter this new area as a practitioner in 2023. I’ll begin my practicum in January, after which start a year-long internship in the summertime.
2023 can also be the yr I enter a brand new decade: I flip 40 (?!?!?!) in June. I need to be venturesome, reasonably than reluctant, as I go away my 30s behind. There may be a lot to be enthusiastic about within the yr forward, and I don’t need to waste one minute feeling some kind of method about my age.
That is my eighth time sharing my “Phrase of the 12 months” with you (make a journey down reminiscence lane to 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016), and it has change into considered one of my very favourite traditions. Do you will have a phrase for 2023? I’d love to listen to it, or no matter plans/objectives/intentions you will have for the following twelve months. Within the meantime, I want you a really completely satisfied New 12 months!!!