{"id":102,"date":"2022-01-26T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2023-04-02T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:18:29","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/?page_id=102","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-huge-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you were to ask me a few years ago who I was, I would have answered: I am a mother, daughter, sister, friend, education worker, pet companion and so on. Now I know that those identities are not who I am but rather roles that I hold in my life. So who am I then? After a lot of soul searching and self discovery I have come to realize who I am at my core. I am peace. I am love. I am joy. I am flawed. I am vulnerable. I am perfectly imperfect. All of these parts make up the whole that is me. The me that I have come to love.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009 I lost someone close to me to suicide. This person was someone I had always looked up to. Someone who I felt truly knew the real me and loved me anyway. This event sent my life on a whole new trajectory. I grieved for a year and survived for the two years following that. One day I woke up and it was like a light bulb had gone off. I had my aha moment as Oprah would say. It was then that I started my journey first to find peace and self love and ultimately joy. I allowed myself the bad days without judgement and celebrated the good days. At times it felt like I was moving backwards instead of forwards but I always reminded myself to just take things <em>one step at a time<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read and listened to as many self help books and podcasts as I could. I attended webinars, watched videos and journaled. I spent many hours in self reflection, finally my tendency of overthinking came in handy. Over the years I have been able to find that peace I sought and even experienced joy. While I am by no means an expert I would like to share my journey with all of you and hope that it inspires someone to embark on their own path to peace, love and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"72\" data-id=\"193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled-1.png 504w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled-1-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled-1-420x60.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-1024x330.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-1024x330.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-768x247.png 768w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-1536x495.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-2048x659.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.1stepatatime.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/I-dont-claim-1-186x60.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to ask me a few years ago who I was, I would have answered: I am a mother, daughter, sister, friend, education worker, pet companion and so on. Now I know that those identities are not who I am but rather roles that I hold in my life. 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