Just me… back in the wild!

I haven’t posted in a while because things have been intense and private, and my time needed to be dedicated elsewhere.

I just want to start this off with… I am so appreciative for you opening this and wanting to read what has been going on. For still being here. I’m honored.

The last nine months…

I was working towards a powerlifting meet, and I was doing really well. Finding my way through. Pushing the limits. and then about a week or two before the meet, I hurt my back via Christmas decoration tote. 😂 I know. Freaking lame. But… I was able to work through the temporary and compete in a later meet. It was not the performance I had hoped to have, but I did it and that’s what mattered more for me. I wanted to explore that avenue of fitness. And it was so much fun! It was so much dang fun! Will I do it again? Maybe.

We hit some rocky family related situations. We found that our daughter was dealing with a harassment that led to an investigation of another student. This was a big concern because of our daughter being high functioning autistic and has ADHD. It became very pressing to be sure that she and the rest of our children understood what was OK and what was not OK behavior displayed towards them or by them. And to be sure that they had an understanding of when to get help and where to go.

Adrian and I reached a point that we decided to separate, he moved out and we recently divorced. It has been life altering for our family.

I have pulled back quite a bit on my social media, but it was also for the safety of my family. I found that my photographs as well as my children’s photographs were used in some situations to deceive men. There have been six different situations that might be the same person or maybe it’s different, but I have been notified by the men involved and receive screenshots. Thankfully, they have reported the person in each occurrence and I was able to pull back on what is posted to safeguard myself and my kids. But hopefully save one more man from being deceived.

After the second powerlifting meet, my body began to display some old symptoms that it had in at least two previous occurrences over the last nine years. Now being in civilian life and a different medical system, I was able to take advantage of the moment and have the testing done to find out what has been going on when high levels of stress have hit. I have been diagnosed with both Sjogren’s Syndrome and Lupus. And now I have a care team and medications to help.

So now…

I am a single mom of four amazing children, four dogs and two kitties. We are managing the best that we can with what we’ve got. Our most recent win is, we are in the midst of completing our fourth week of fully menu, planning and executing 🙌

Adrian and I are coparenting and working towards a friendship. We have found a home church and Adrian has immersed himself within it.

I am back in remission and have been working towards getting active again. I am signed up for the Philly half marathon in November and I plan to run it! Slowly but surely, I will get back to it.

As I move through the second half of this year, I intend to pick back up here. It might be a little different than it was before. But there’s nothing wrong with different. It’s just different.

I plan to share some of the things that I am finding along my way as I navigate this single mom life, more autoimmune diseases, perimenopause, and heading back in fitness wise with strength and running.

I am so appreciative for you being here and reading this.

Thank you for the blessing ♥️

Nik