2011 in Review

At the close of each year I like to look back and reflect.
2011 has been a year filled with growth and learning, as well as quite a bit of challenge and of course joy.
After 9 years of a relatively easy marriage Matt and I had a year of growth and challenge. Every marriage faces challenging times, and this year was one of those for us. I'm happy to say we've come through and feel like we have a stronger marriage now than ever before. We look forward to celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2012 and hope to get away somewhere tropical for a week :)
The second half of the year brought a lot of emotional challenges for me. I faced a lot of anxiety. I discovered a huge source of my anxiety and why it surfaced around the anniversary of my father's death was that I had never actually grieved his death. I shoved it under the rug and didn't allow myself the grief process. In return it came back to bite me 9 years later. I finally found a good therapist, one I clicked wi…
2011 has been a year filled with growth and learning, as well as quite a bit of challenge and of course joy.
After 9 years of a relatively easy marriage Matt and I had a year of growth and challenge. Every marriage faces challenging times, and this year was one of those for us. I'm happy to say we've come through and feel like we have a stronger marriage now than ever before. We look forward to celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2012 and hope to get away somewhere tropical for a week :)
The second half of the year brought a lot of emotional challenges for me. I faced a lot of anxiety. I discovered a huge source of my anxiety and why it surfaced around the anniversary of my father's death was that I had never actually grieved his death. I shoved it under the rug and didn't allow myself the grief process. In return it came back to bite me 9 years later. I finally found a good therapist, one I clicked wi…