Healthy Happy Chaos

Hello! Thanks for taking the time to check out my page! I have been toying with this blog idea for sometime and researching all kinds of ways to start and how to make it perfect. But then it hit me, there is no such thing as perfect. There is giving your best effort and just making it happen. I mean, that is what this who blog is about. Making things happen for ourselves amongst all the chaos. And if you are human you have chaos. What I have learned is that when there is chaos we have a tendency to lean more unhealthy habits. Boy, when i have a super long, draining day at work I want to veg out on the couch and order take out because cooking dinner isn’t ideal.

But you know what, I came here to introduce myself. So I have been an active duty service member in the United States Air Force for almost 16 years. It has been a crazy busy lifestyle with so many ups and downs I lose track of what day it is sometimes, lol. My husband is also an active duty service member in the Air Force, and we met at our first duty station of Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico. At 18 that was the furthest I had ever been away from home. My chaos in my younger years was long hours at work, feeling isolated at work, starting a new relationship, diving into college classes, volunteering, coaching sports. I was doing so much and found every excuse not to workout or eat healthy. I was young so why did I need to worry about what I ate or exercising, right? 2 years into our relationship we got married, and 2 years later found out we were going to be parents. That’s when chaos really took over.

Over the years we have been all over the place living in Alaska, Alabama, and now Illinois (which by the way is where I was born and raised), traveled to Germany, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait. We have had our months of separation due to the military sending one of us over seas and numerous travel trips for work. After our oldest turned 5 we started working to have our second child. And even after all the stress associated with being a full time service member and mother, I choose to continue serving. As our boys get older they are signing up for more and more activities from swimming to football and lacrosse.

Busy is my mantra. I have my hands in everything from classroom parent for my boys to running events at work, obtaining my Master’s Degree to other certifications and trainings because you know, curiosity gets the best of me. And if that wasn’t enough, I decided to start my own Arbonne business! What the heck is wrong with me right??? Even with all of this going on, I learned that if I did not make my health a priority then it was going to get worse and worse with all the chaos happening around me. It’s easier to order take out than to cook a home made meal. It’s easier to sit on the couch after work or sleep in in the morning than get up and workout. It’s easier to stare at the tv than read a book to grow my mind. There are so many things that I have found to be easier but as I took the easier paths I found myself more tired, gaining weight, living in a mental fog, snapping at my kids, not enjoying my time with my husband.

With all that going through my head all the time for the past 20+ years of my life it’s understandable why I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. It’s understandable why in my mid twenties I was on blood pressure meds. But you know what? It wasn’t until I almost lost my husband to divorce and had our second child that I released I needed to make my health a priority. When I say health I am not just talking about what I eat. I am talking about my mental, emotional, and physical health. I am talking about my relationships. What I have learned and am still learning is that it doesn’t have to be as difficult as it seems. There are easy things you can do each and every day, but there are also ways to prioritize and let go of things that really don’t matter, because in the end we don’t need to be perfect.

Well, as you can tell this is my first time in the blogging world and I have found myself rambling. I hope you come back and see the various topics that I want to share to help you find easy ways to have a Healthy Happy Chaotic Life!