{"id":387,"date":"2018-12-24T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T17:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:20:47","slug":"letting-go-of-the-old-to-make-way-for-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go of the Old to Make Way for the New"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"387\" class=\"elementor elementor-387 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-638f1c34 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"638f1c34\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-59ab7e67\" data-id=\"59ab7e67\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3688779b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3688779b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\">January 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\">Have you ever found yourself in a place of dissatisfaction, or just not feeling contented in your life?\u00a0 A job, a relationship, your physical body, home. or feeling uncomfortable in your own skin?\u00a0 This may manifest as sensations of swiming upstream, against the current \u2013strufggling\u2013instead of flowing in your life and the day to day.\u00a0 Often we feel a mix of both, the struggle and the flow.\u00a0 Sometimes it all goes to hell.\u00a0 And at other times, you are humming along with miraculous synchronicity, completely in a state of flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">2013 was the year my life was dismantled, at least the career and health parts.\u00a0 Having been an oncology nurse for 25 years\u2014working at a hospital and with colleagues I intended to spend the rest of my career with\u2014it all came crashing down.\u00a0 It\u2019s taken me several years to understand how to truly find my flow, let go of what was, accept what is before me now.\u00a0 Bit by bit, and piece by piece I have been rebuilding my life, listening for cues, surrendering to a body limited by chronic illness.\u00a0 <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 16px;\">What can I do now?\u00a0 How can I find new purpose and meaning with my life?\u00a0 I miss taking care of people.\u00a0 I miss my patients\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">These were a few of the phrases ricocheting throughout my mind, starting around 2016, once I got a bit of a foothold on my health.\u00a0 I began to understand that this body of mine\u2014once able to work actively as a nurse, run, bike, ski, travel, dance! (oh, how I miss dancing), socialize in the evenings, and more\u2014was relegated to a daily adherence of resting, small spurts of activities at a time, and flowing with persistent symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The past years have been a winding and interesting path of letting go of &#8220;the old\u201d and creating \u201cthe new.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Accepting <\/em>the new.\u00a0 But here I am. \u00a0I\u2019m not exactly sure where this new life will be taking me, but I\u2019m excited to be in this fresh, new chapter.\u00a0 As I write this first blog post for \u201cFrom My Heart to Yours,\u201d I just wish to say that it\u2019s my hope that we <em>all <\/em>find that magical flow.\u00a0 That you have more days of synchronicity, rather than struggle.\u00a0 And that during times of struggle, lifeboats appear and comforting blankets of balm soothe the weary spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>I invite you to cue into the messages of your life.\u00a0 Where is the struggle?\u00a0 Where is the flow?\u00a0 Remember to breathe.\u00a0 Tune in.\u00a0 Tap in to your inner well of wisdom.\u00a0 We all have it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for visiting my blog!\u00a0 I look forward to connecting and sharing, and being inspired by <em>you<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Gretchen<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 January 2019 Have you ever found yourself in a place of dissatisfaction, or just not feeling contented in your life?\u00a0 A job, a relationship, your physical body, home. or feeling uncomfortable in your own skin?\u00a0 This may manifest as sensations of swiming upstream, against the current \u2013strufggling\u2013instead of flowing in your life and the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/?p=387\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letting Go of the Old to Make Way for the New<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vibranthealthintegrativenutrition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}