Your Wellness Gal....In the Beginning

Have you ever set out with a plan, could maybe even call it a dream, You can feel it deep in your bones?? You KNOW, like...this is it!! Thats how I felt in 2009. My youngest was 6 months old, I was working on an organic vegetable farm for veggies, I had found the BIG world of health and wellness, a company that sold "Holistic" vitamins and supplements came across my wide eyes AND I thought THIS IS IT!! I am going to sell the crap out of these products, help people get healthy and make some CASH!! One bump in the road I was a stay at home mom and really did not know a peep in my community...so who exactly was I going to share this with?? Crickets...

 Naturally my next step...start a womens group in my home. The Joy of Connecting of Muskego was born, July of 2009 and so was Your Wellness Gal. The tag line created while in conversation with JOC franchise owner and mentor. I loved it from the get go! Although, It did not take long for me to realize that when I looked at myself I did not see a picture of "Well" looking back at me. What I saw looking back at me was someone I did not know, someone I did not necessarily like...the person staring back at me was lost and had not really a clue of what it meant to be well or to walk that kind of walk (although you probably would not of wanted to be the one to tell me that at the time, lol). Even so the hunger for more was there, I wanted it , like really, really wanted it (little did I know it would take nearly 10 years to get there, a blessing I guess:-)!! So from 2009 onward I set out to build The Joy of Connecting and what I thought to be Your Wellness Gal "the business". As of 2018 I look back and KNOW with all my heart I was setting out on a journey! A journey of growth...A journey to BECOME, a journey of wellness! It was and has been and WILL continue to be "my business" to do the work, ground MORE, grow MORE and BECOME MORE of what God created me to BE. 

JOURNEY IN A NUTSHELL or mandala triangle. I am a visual person so let me share with you a project we were asked to do at the end of our training program.  We were given a long triangle that fit into a group mandala, we were to create a visual of our 2 year journey that could be crafted any way we wanted. (2 caveats for this project I do not think of myself as particularly creative but when I lift my guard it does seem to flow and this was also during our time of silence which is "my jam" and I do not like to think in it, I like to be in it.) With that information....I WAS silent, it STILL flowed and it perfectly CAPTURED my entire Your Wellness Gal journey and practically created itself! Seriously, I LOVE WHEN THAT HAPPENS (without a doubt GOD thing)!
(PLEASE NOTE i do not in any way think THE JOURNEY IS OVER or that I have it all figured out..I DON'T, BUT I am well now, I am  in a place where I can confidentally speak and lead by WALKING the WALK and TALKING the TALK. )

Before I reveal the piece I MUST give thanks! It is IN the SILENCE and IN the STILLNESS and in the GRACE of each and EVERY moment on this journey of life that I have come to build relationship and TRUST in GOD and for that I AM forever Grateful! 

​DRUM ROLL PLEAZE>>>>>>>>>>

And it reads like this...

• There once was a hungry 
• Visual: caterpillar
• Who found HOPE in veggies
• Seeking a new view
• Became LOVE
• Packed up and moved
• To the here and now
• Where there is a special place in God's heart for YOU and ME
• Found freedom---Ready to fly
• Living my TRUTH
• PEACE

and this sums up my YWG journey to date...

I share this story NOT to be like HEY look at me BUT to build TRUST. For YOU as the reader to FEEL and KNOW that it CAN BE DONE. TRANSFORMATION does take work, but when we share our stories they become each others stories and lightens the load knowing that we are not doing this life alone. WE are connected, WE are one, WE are WORTH IT! 

I offer this TAKE AWAY: Uncovering TRUTH = FREEDOM
With Gratitude and a basket FULL of Veggie LOVE, 
Hugs, 
B~