Celebrate Happy Moments
This is a BIG week for me! It's my wedding week and I'm super excited.
I've been pretty emotional leading up to this event and feeling the love and support from friends and family in different ways. After getting engaged earlier this year, we scheduled and planned our wedding within a few months, which isn't your traditional timeline. But then again, our lives didn't follow a traditional timeline.
When I lost my husband five years ago, I was floored. I never thought something like that could happen to someone I knew, let alone happen to me. I was in shock that something so life-altering and traumatic took place in my reality. At the time, I didn't think about what my life would look like in weeks, months, years ahead, I just tried to keep going. In certain instances, it's still hard to even fully comprehend it's part of my past and what's shaped me into who I am now.
I didn't anticipate meeting someone I'd eventually marry again but I truly think people are put in your path for a reason.
Getting remarried is not a decision taken lightly. Especially given what I'd been through, it was important to invite someone into my life who understands my past and trauma, who respects my late husband and the marriage and memories I had with him, and who allows space for those memories and surrounding emotions to take place.
Mutual trust and open communication was important, vulnerability and honesty, hopes and visions for ourselves as a couple and individually, laughter and love, prioritizing what's important. We needed to be aligned in how we lived our lives together and separately. There's a delicate balance that needs to take place between living your present life and building a future together, but also honoring what your past brought to the relationship.
I've evolved over these past several years in ways that have brought me more peace and joy. I've become more mindful in my thoughts and actions and what I allow into my space. I'm more protective of my time, my mind and my body.
Happy moments in life are meant to be celebrated and shared and I wanted to share that with you this week as a reminder to do it yourself, however big or small. :)