Ta-da!! A new site design!

New year, same me, but new design and more plans for creativity and connectedness with you! For some reason the new year prompted me to freshin’ up things on here and start cranking out my goals that I’ve been planning.

The funny thing is that it may seem like I’m a week late to this whole ‘new year’s fresh start.’

“Uh, the new year started about 1 1/2 weeks ago.” Yeah, I know. But here’s the deal- spring semester officially starts today with teaching my classes (and since my life’s personal calendar has been based off of a fall semester/spring semester/school schedule for 30 years), today starts my “fresh start.” I’m not necessarily into ‘new years resolutions’ but I do like the idea of fresh beginnings. For some reason it feels more encouraging rather than commercial. And when the spring semester begins for me, not new years day necessarily, it’s when routines are back in place and we are ‘back at it.’

So welcome to the new site design. Everything health and wellness is here and actually this is just the beginning. Right now you can search by topic, get new posts sent to your email in the top right corner (do that), find resources, search recipes and more. You also may notice that I changed the title and website domain to www.BeWellWellness.com. My social media handles/names are still wellfithappy, but BeWellWellness will encompass many more things.

Because it’s not just about the new site design.

Coming soon there will be even more recipes, a marketplace area, videos, and more. This is just the beginning, we are just getting started. Even though I have been an author, writer, and personal website developer for almost 10 years now (wow!), I have evolved over the years and this upcoming year will be one of my best yet in this capacity- because the goals I have are outside my comfort zone.  I’m excited and confident, and nervous too (read: butterflies).

(I believe the excited + nervous  + butterfly feelings prove to me that I’m growing and getting out of my comfort zone, which- as we know- is typically where “the magic” happens… whatever that magic is). Even after so many years of teaching, I still get butterflies on the first day (so please be thinking of me later today).

As much as new designs, new goals, and fresh ideas are exciting- fresh starts can be daunting. Believe me, I know. Sometimes I feel like I need to have everything in place before I choose to begin something but we all know that those are just excuses.

“I need to have “x” in place before I can do “y.”

“I need to wait until my kids are older until I start focusing more on me.” 

“I need to save up “x” amount of money before I join the gym to get healthy.”

“I need to get a different job before I can focus on my finances.” 

All just excuses. So just begin. Just start. Whatever it is. Whatever you’ve been thinking about and mulling over. “The beginning” may be a different beginning that you expect, but just begin. And keep moving, even if it’s just small steps.

I have goals in my head, these same goals that I’ve written down and that I’ve told people. But I don’t have every.single.thing worked out. And I likely won’t until it happens. But that doesn’t mean I stop and wait until everything is in place (aka perfect) before starting or beginning. Because we all know that nothing gets done when we wait for perfect to arrive. Perfect doesn’t exist.

So today starts a renewed beginning here at BeWellWellness which will evolve, and I’m excited for that. I want to thank you for reading as this serves as a place where people can get ideas, learn, laugh, reflect and discover, and build community with others on their personal journey’s towards health- body, mind, spirit- whatever and however that may look. Yet this is also my square on the internet to be me and only me. I’m not perfect whatsoever and it’s likely that you aren’t either (gasp!), BUT we can still support each other and encourage each other amidst bravery, vulnerability, and authenticity in our personal journey’s.

Again, welcome!