The Genesis
It started a couple years ago. I had worked for over a decade building up a successful career in engineering. I was 35 years old, made great money, married with a husband and two kids. But life was... crazy. I couldn’t seem to get it together. My house was a mess, work was so stressful, I didn’t have the patience to deal with toddler tantrums and could hardly get a nutritious meal on the table.
My body was screaming, my kids were screaming, life was sending me the clearest message - something had to change. It absolutely had to.
I didn’t know where to start. I followed a lot of self-help type things on social media. They were inspiring and I felt motivated, but I was lost on the practical steps I needed to take to move forward. So, I decided to solicit outside help - and this ended up being the best decision of my life. I reached out to my therapist Casey, who I had worked with previously in a different capacity. This time, the help I was seeking revolved around the desire to elevate and shift my life around. Little did I know at this time that Casey would be an angel in human form who would truly help me shift my life in profound ways. She is the driving force behind the genesis of Priya 2.0.
now i’m going to pause here for a second
I get that therapy may not be for everyone. Nor is this post attempting to promote therapy - so, if it’s is not for you, please don’t shut down on me here. I’m sharing my process and my journey to inspire my thought process, describe the path I took and what I gleaned from it. So even if therapy isn’t for you, please stay with me because there could be nuggets in the remainder of this post that are beneficial even if the therapy piece isn’t!
Piggybacking off that pause, for those who are interested in therapy, please see my blog post about finding the right therapist for you because I had a long journey before I found my person. For me, therapy has been a valuable part of my journey and thankfully with the right person, it has truly been a exponentially healing experience.
OK, NOW BACK TO THE POST...
Casey helped shine a light on how many blockers and limiting beliefs I had put in place for my own self. I had spent years talking about how I couldn’t progress because “he did this” or “she did that” when in reality, I needed to look in the mirror. No single person has the ability to prevent you from doing anything, I was putting up the blockers for my own self. I began to reflect on the limiting belief systems I had put on myself and started looking at things from a growth mindset; asking questions like, “What can I do about it”? “How can I move past this”? “How can I achieve what I want”? which led to even further questions, like, “What DO I want”? I was meeting myself with curiosity and learning more about me. Just when I thought that I was on the right path in the very right moment, Casey then nudged me into a path that I never thought would have had anything to do with why I had a messy house or couldn’t keep my life in order. She nudged me to explore the path of spirituality - a path that I had disconnected from. This is the path that truly helped me reconnect with myself. Which helped me meet myself and my emotions with curiosity, grace and love. A path that helped me build self-confidence and understand my worth. It is the path, that for me, changed everything.
Final disclaimer
Again, I’m not here to push anyone into therapy, spirituality or religion -- I’m here to share my journey and what worked for me. Your journey will be different and unique to you and may not incorporate any of these components...that’s OK! If you’re able to glean anything from my thought process, approach, etc. even if your journey ends up being completely different from mine, I would consider me posting transparently about my journey a win. I truly hope that you can continue to stay tuned and take pieces of my journey that you’re inspired by while leaving the things that you do not resonate with.