On Uncertainty and Dusting off the Old Blog
This is as good time as any to dust off the old blog. It has been awhile since I have been on here. As you can see, I felt that called for a little revamp, a fresh start, a new makeover. Welcome to Nourish and Bloom. What I want more than anything at this time is a space for creativity. There’s something about writing (and I think many of us experience this) that cleans out my soul, settles my mind, and ignites my creative expression. I am a better person when I write.
Last year, I had a couple of big changes with my career. The clinic I was working out of closed. (Another story, but I not ideal). With that, I lost the client base I had built for the past two years. I also lost reputation and resources I had invested in. I took some space after this.
I continued to see clients on my own. I wasn’t marketing, I wasn’t creating content, I wasn’t investing in the growth of this business. I was just focusing on the clients that came my way. Meanwhile, with the encouragement of my husband, I grew what had been a side-job for me into a business. I fell in love with business in general. I loved the days I spent in the sun, buying plants, designing gardens, spending time at the nursery, and organizing clients.
I closed this business when my husband got a position with a landscape company in Oregon this past February. Two weeks ago, we moved into the van and moved for him to start his new job. My plan when we landed:
Find some part-time fun work to take some time to learn what this community needs.
Start a new business when I developed the right plan. Maybe gardening, maybe something in nutrition and fitness. Didn’t have a solid business plan yet, but I was hoping the needs of this new community would guide me.
Get involved in real estate groups and find a new church. Get established in the new community.
Invest in a new gym and start making some friends! Push for as much muscle gain as possible.
Obviously, none of this to-do list is relevant right now. Along with many of you, I am now sitting in uncertainty. There is anxiety, fear, worry, and confusion showing up left and right, the same emotions I have heard from many of you. But this time has also been filled with a lot of gratitude and hope for me. I can’t help but feel this time is such a gift to redefine who we are and focus on our inner work. I have been blessed to spend time with those I love most, connect better with my family and friends in compassion, and sit with the space to design what I truly want and need when it comes to my health, my goals, and my career. I feel it in my bones right now that this is a blessing. While I am fearful and worry about the health of my loved ones, an economic recession, and my own sense of comfort, right alongside those emotions is a sensation that we are being carried through this. I have to make the most of it.
For now, I don’t know what business the world needs right now. I don’t know how this shift is going to effect our financial needs and goals. But what I do know is:
I love to write and in a time of crazy, I need the groundedness it grants me, along with the consistency blogging can provide.
This is a huge opportunity for creativity and an opportunity to shed walls, release expectations and just BE, as a creative.
Focusing on “home” is healing. What a great time to dive into what we love, gardening, health, cooking, nutrition, and the making of a comforting and beautiful home. Let the home projects commence!
Sometimes, as an entrepreneur, the talk of target markets, the pressure of sales launches, branding, and “doing things right” really sniffles productivity and creativity. There has never been a better time to just create content as it feels good, to move through this space of uncertainty in flow with the emotions, and inspirations as they come. We can release expectations because everyone is shifting through this space together. That’s a beautiful thing. I don’t know what I hope this blog evolves into. All I know is it can be a space to explore and find consistency, creativity, and positivity in a time like this, and I hope it can be an uplifting light as we all move through this together.
