Greetings from Halloween Town! Thanks for coming back to my hallo-blog. Today I am featuring the next top rated blog of all time. This one was published January 2018 and features freebies and free trials that are usually offered every January by companies and services looking to help folks out with their new years resolutions. I'm still a fan of all of these great suggestions so let's review them!
I'm still a big fan of Yoga With Adriene! She is wonderful. I remember discovering her channel that dreary January and really getting into her 30 day free yoga classes on youtube. Her calming words and settings made me cry tears of release after each class. She also offers yoga for grief which has been very important to me and will probably continue to be important as I go through life and experience inevitable loss. She's got such a cool laid back vibe and every time I tune in I feel like I'm visiting a friend. I aspire to make others feel the same when they visit me here on my blog. (so I hope you feel so welcome and loved, my friend, because you truly are)
I also speak about my beginning journey with NAMI's peer to peer 10 week program. (full disclosure, I did start this program but sadly dropped out due to obvious reasons like my debilitating depression and agoraphobia.) I need to start and finish this program and so many more at my new location here in Northern Michigan.
If you don't know about NAMI, you really should check them out. They are a national community reaching out to every area of every state to offer FREE services such as counseling, help with applying for disability, group therapy meetings, and services for loved ones and care givers of those with mental illness. They completely rely on gifts and contributions to stay available in every community and offer free support. If you are in need of any assistance you can always call them or go to their website and highly advice checking out what is available in your area and finding a way to be involved or to give support. I can't sing their praises enough. Please, if you need any help with mental health and don't know where to start, contact them. Look on their website and reach out. Always remember how important it is to share these types of opportunities with your friends and loved ones as you never know who it may help.
I then discuss my goal of having a job, or some type of income, and my main goal being an etsy store. It took me YEARS to work up the courage to do that! and of course, when I did it was so easy and I was wondering what I waited so long for! I've always enjoyed making my own greeting cards and decided to make that the main focus of my shop. I'm still desperately seeking more sales but have been able to get by paying the small fees to list my crafts by selling miscellaneous jewelry and other accessories. If you want to help support me, and NAMI, please check out my etsy store, aptly named Craft Store Cowgirl pick up something sweet and handmade for yourself or a friend. There's still time to order one of these lacey masquerade masks before Halloween!
I'm so proud of myself not only for finally making my etsy store live as of February this year (why does that feel like a million years ago?) but also for continuing to work a quant little part time job outside the house to help us with extra expenses. I'm so incredibly blessed to have my husband's support and for the fact that if I needed to stay home all the time again due to mental illness, I could, but I want a reason to leave the house. I need socializing and interaction. Making new friends and plans is hard already for those of us suffering with poor mental health but 2020's pandemic have made it much harder so I am immensely grateful for my cute little downtown job.
I enjoy walking down the main drag in the mornings with my shop keys and smelling fresh pies being baked for the day. I also enjoy getting to know those in the community that make it a point to stop in the small businesses time after time to show their support. It's been such a great opportunity for me to really push myself and keep going even when I really, really don't want to. Getting out of my comfort zone has been a huge help to my recovery process. I've been doing that really hard work that no one wants to do and that I wasn't able to do for so long.
I'll see you back here tomorrow!
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