Blessing in Disguise

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Afraid to disappoint myself, again.  Afraid to disappoint others.

I disappointed myself with my Kinesiology degree and doing PTr. I realized that PTr was not what I wanted to do when I was doing my internship.  I don't think I ever 100% believed in myself to do it which is a large part of anything you choose to do.

So, then I decided I would go for Psychology to help girls with eating disorders, as I have struggled with my own. My name means, listener.  I am a very good listener, but it's the finding the right words to say back that I have problems with... so I'm thinking a Psychologist might NOT be the career for me... I didn’t completely realize this until one random day…


An incredible career option was brought to my attention. It's an amazing opportunity and career... it combines 2 of my passions... animals and rehab therapy. :)  It is definitely something I can see myself doing!  But I am scared that I am going to fail and disappoint myself, mostly.

I've been interest in the human/animal mind and behavior for quite some time... I want to understand why we do what we do... so I would still like to study at least some psychology... but as far as going back to school and working towards my bachelors/masters... I don't think that is going to happen.

The blessing in disguise all happened that awful night in 2009 which led me to getting Sassy.  We had a few dogs when I was growing up, but Sassy was MY first dog that I was responsible for; I fell in love with her.  If it wasn’t for that incident, Sassy coming into my life, her getting sick and passing away :( …I probably would never have applied for and gotten the job at the kennel and would never had would thought this new path was possible.

I need confidence.  Confidence in myself to know that I CAN do this and that I will be amazing at this!  It just scares me because this is a real possibility… everything else I’ve thought about doing just seemed so far off in the future.



It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new –But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.  There is more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in change there is power. –Alan Cohen