I haven’t sat down and shared on this blog since the beginning of the year.It’s almost Spring in Australia. And it really feels like it will be a season of rebirth for me.
A lot has changed for me since February. The biggest change for me was leaving my job of eleven years.
Unemployment is not fun, however, in hindsight it felt like the reset that had to happen. The push to change my environment and recharge properly. I was beginning to burn out and I only really felt the relief from that once i stepped out of my role.
It is scary rejoining the job search club, but at the same time it has given me time to re-evaluate what I want from life and where my priorities lie.
I am forty. And life does not go backwards, nor does it go any slower and time is precious. I want what time I have left in the workforce (approximately twenty-five years) to matter. I also want to keep enjoying life and have the time to spend it with the people that matter to me.
At my previous job, an early childhood centre, I was working long hours, and I know that will still be something I am content to do as I am currently looking for work in that area still (holy run-on sentence). But, I want to try and balance that out so I do not burn out as often.
In the last few years I have been more intentional at taking time off, so that has helped. As anyone who works with children will know, they are germ-factories [affectionate] and I tend to catch everything. Early in my career I would work and work and work, then only take time off when I got sick. Not a sustainable way to work at all. Don’t follow my lead in this. Ha.
During this ‘forced’ break, I have taken time to explore different activities that I enjoy pursuing [read, dabbling sporadically]. Recording myself singing Disney songs, reading children’s books (dad suggested that I create a YouTube channel specifically for this purpose, maybe I will). And I am trying to get back into writing, hence this blog post.
In saying that, I started researching ideas for what to write about. But, we will not hold our breaths that will mean these will become more regular. Cannot promise what I know I will not be able to deliver… Ha. Please forgive me, lol. (There’s that millennial urge to write ‘lol’.)
Related, I suppose, few years ago my therapist got me to start the process of seeing if I have ADHD, and we came out of the process with a strongly suspect that I have inattentive type ADHD. I have yet to continue to pursue that diagnosis due to the prohibitive costs. But even having the knowledge that it’s highly likely is helpful. It means that I can focus on figuring out strategies to help with my day-to-day life.
Of course, with my history (poor health basically from birth, being in an orphanage for three years, being adopted), my neurological wiring could be due to the trauma of all that, and not ADHD. BUT… I do a lot of things that people with diagnosed ADHD do…and you know the old saying, ‘if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…?’. Well, I’m just saying.
So, where am I leading with my thoughts in this post? The last quarter of 2026 will be a journey for me, that’s for sure. And I want to try and bring you all on it in a more intentional way.
Thank you to everyone who has read my blog and any new people who may come across this post.
God bless you all.
Oh, yeah, speaking of God…that’s a whole other post [deconstructing my faith*].
[*that post doesn’t exist yet]
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