My Midlife Blog for Women

Well, I finally did it! I have been pondering about starting my midlife blog for women and just took the giant leap! A leap of faith, if you will. I am in the process of reinventing myself (again) and I have never been so excited and sure that this is the direction that I should be going in. I am making so many changes in my life right now, starting a new business along with having goals for expanding in the near future. Waking around 4 am every morning with visions of sugar plums dancing in my head. Appropriate for this time of the year, but overstimulating, to say the least. Ideas are bursting in anticipation!

My Younger Years

Having dabbled in many things but was never serious about pursuing anything professionally. Once upon a time, I attended culinary school and competed while I was there. During that time,  I had a (very, very) small baking business. My past also includes:  starting a fundraising business with my bestie;  sitting as PTO president; managing my son’s hockey team… Although I loved staying busy, I just never really had the desire to have a career. Happiness was raising my family. 

My Midlife Blog for Women

When I was in my forties, my middle daughter suggested that we both go back to school and become nurses together. Suddenly smacked in the face by a “mid-life” crisis of sorts,  I agreed to go to nursing school. Graduating with honors at the age of 47, I was offered a position immediately on a midnight shift. WOW! It was a great accomplishment. However,  reality set in! What in the world was I thinking? Not only did I have a career, but I was working through the night when I should have been tucked in bed next to my husband as I had been over the last 30 years!

I was miserable and cried continuously!  Sleep was unattainable and I would go up to 50-60 hours without rest. Regret was the strongest emotion I could feel. I was having a midlife crisis! Determined to have a better women’s midlife…

I Needed a Change

In addition to the hours wearing on me, but the actual job itself was also more than I bargained for. It was the darkest season of my entire life that lasted exactly 89 days in the hospital. I gave my notice the day before my probationary period was to expire.

It was the beginning of the end of nursing in my eyes. This was not the career choice I should have chosen. It was too heavy emotionally and physically for me. I praise all of the nurses out there, they are truly special people. I ended up getting a job doing home-care case management for pregnant moms and their babies and that has been my weekly chore over the last 5 years. Sounds like fun, right? NOT. It is the most boring position and I feel as if all of my creativity has been draining from my body in sllloooowww motion.

My Midlife Online

Gather Love LLC is dedicated to becoming an informative midlife blog for women. It is proof that any negative situation can be turned around if you work hard and desire the change. Nursing is a great career choice and I am thankful for those special people that love their jobs. My daughter and daughter-in-law are both Emergency Room RN’s. For me, I will turn my skills in a different direction and help people through a midlife blog for women. Everyone has a place in this world where they are needed, mine is online and I am thankful for this opportunity.

In conclusion, I believe with every ounce of my soul, that I am supposed to head in this direction. So, with all the faith in the world, I just jumped!

More to my story –

Lisa

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