Let Go and Grow

Dear reader! Happy 2026 to you and yours! Spring is just around the corner - where has the time gone? My family and I took some needed space at the end of 2025 to check in, evaluate, and align ourselves as needed toward better health and better selves. We were blessed to welcome this year safely, and have weathered illnesses, snow storms, heartaches, frozen plumbing, injuries and more! Oh the adventure that life can be! I hope your journey into this year has been peaceful and productive. Are you one to make resolutions? Are they going well? Personally, I am not of that mindset but I heard something several weeks ago that stuck with me and moved me to share with you. If there is a goal, a resolution, you decided on for this year and you feel stuck, ask yourself what are you holding onto that may be holding you back. So many of us want change, want betterment, want something new. How many of us realize that we cannot effectively have that newness of change and betterment if we are still doing the same old things? How can we expect new results out of old habits and attitudes? I think it unfair to set ourselves up for failure dear reader, and therefore we must let go so that we can grow.

Well what do you mean Tasha? I mean that if we want new, we must let go of old. Old mindsets, old routines, old actions. As a clinician I constantly push and encouragement my patients to reform habits that have led to injury and poor health in order to promote the best possible outcome for them, yet within myself, I have not always allowed that push to happen. I am guilty of wanting things and talking about them, but not BEING about them. As my mom taught, I need to walk the walk don't just talk the talk. Looking to lose the weight of poor financial circumstance, poor health habits, stagnation in relationships or career? Well what do you need to let go of so that you can grow in these areas and reach your goals? Is it a negative attitude? Is it bad spending and eating habits? Is it a toxic relationship or job? Letting go is not always easy, and while the things, habits, and at times, people, we must let go of may be challenging don't you deserve to be your best self? Aren't you worth the challenge? I think you deserve it and that you are worth it. I think you deserve to be your best not just for your family and loved ones, but for YOU.

Not every dream is meant for you to have in order to be your best self, healthy and happy. Not every job, even if it pays well, will allow you to have the best career experience or best life wealth of fitness and balanced stress. Not every person is someone you are meant to hold onto in order to have joy, peace and a meaningful, fulfilled life. Do not sell yourself short and do not settle. Hippocrates stated, "If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him." That is a quote I keep on the homepage for this website. It resonates with me beyond the physical and I feel it applies to every part of our being - mind, body, heart, spirit. I deserve to be my best self and can do better at not just believing that and remembering that, but also living that. I encourage you to do the same. As Spring comes upon us and we say goodbye to the coldness and dormant space of Winter, let's also say goodbye to things, habits, people, and attitudes we are holding onto that are keeping us from being our best selves. Let's release them and look forward and upward. It's time to let go so that we can grow. Join me dear reader, and let's push through the time ahead knowing that we are worth the push.

Blessings,

Tasha