Welcome Home

How much things have changed since I last wrote here!! My house is finished inside, (except for a couple of small projects), and now my thoughts are looking towards updating the outside... eventually. For now? For now, I spend precious time sculpting new little ones. While I did make a miniature almost 2 years ago now, I'm primarily focused on sculpting life-sized pieces to reproduce into vinyl, silicone, and resin. With several projects on the go, I'm always busy these days. 

I thought I had lost my passion for sculpting and struggled for years with it. After finally getting help from the Brain Injury Clinic here, (for a severe injury at 6 years old, then an additional bad concussion in 2019), I have realized that my passion was never lost. I was. I was lost in how to properly function at my absolute best. I was lost in feeling useless, but not wanting to be. I was lost because I knew I wasn't functioning like everyone else around me.  However, I was lucky to be teamed up with an amazing specialist that has helped me understand how I need to function WITH a brain injury. It has taken a good 2-3 years to fully understand how I function because of this injury and to learn how to best cope with it.

So here I sit, as I am finishing up my care through the Brain Injury Clinic, and not have I only successfully gotten back to work, but I have found so much more. I have found my happiness, confidence, joy, and peace. My sculpting no longer feels like work. I have found my way to things that I enjoy doing. Some things I have always enjoyed and lost the ability, or others I fell out of touch with, and others are completely new to me. I have focused HARD on getting my health and my body back in shape. I run 3K a day, and don't struggle to get my breathe and my heart doesn't pound to the point of fainting anymore. I'm in the arena at least once a week hockey skating, playing stick and puck and training my body. I ditched my sugar addiction, cut the carbs, carry a water bottle around with me all day and night, and got back to making healthy homemade meals. I even got interested in the sourdough journey and made my own starter a year ago. I love giving my older parents a healthier bread option and gifting loaves to friends and neighbours. It really has become a new passion. I'm back to my hiking along with my nature photography. Two of my oldest passions. Last? I quit spending so much time on social media! Social media can be SO negative and draining. I'm taking my time to do my own things, stay in touch as much as I can, spend time with family and friends, immersing myself in my clay and my portrait sculpting, (YES! I finally taught myself how to do portrait sculpting... something I always stayed away from), and I am LOVING IT! I could go on and on about all of the ways in which my life has turned around for the better, but it is just too great of a list to make.

I live a very blessed life and I am so very thankful for it.

It's like someone has finally said, "Welcome home, Nat. Welcome home", and I finally know in my heart, this is where I am supposed to be.