Starting Over

What a year it's been. I moved to a new country and went back to school last September. Little did I know how much my life would change! After more than half a year of living on different continents and barely talking to each other, my husband and I decided to separate. It now looks like we're headed for divorce. He was such an important part of my life, really my other half, so it's been a difficult adjustment. Thankfully the separation has been fairly amicable and I have new friends who take good care of me and whom I love. I'm sorry to say though, that with so much more time alone, and so many new challenges to tackle, I've fallen back into picking. Despite this my mind frame is relatively positive (hence the slight changes to the page design), and with a long holiday coming up soon, I feel it's time to make another concentrated effort to kick this picking habit once and for all. I'm reinstating the Daily Count. I'm also going to think long and hard about who I am and who I want to be, now that I'm on my own again and don't really have anyone else's expectations to live up to. It's not often that we have the space and time to find ourselves, so I'm looking at it as a blessing. Over the next few months, my missions are healing, strength (physical and mental), and spiritual growth. Tomorrow, of course, is a new moon, the perfect day to begin.