Ms. Guided in Life

I've been away for a bit not because I didn't want to write, it's because I've learned a very important lesson these past few months.  First and foremost, thank you for reading my little blog.  After all, writing has always been one of the ways I practice self-care. A lot has happened and most of it involves my parents' health and other responsibilities that I wasn't quite ready to experience just yet, but they are finally here and there is no turning back. Looking back, I'm surprised at how easily it is to forget to take care of oneself. I've been so busy focusing on everyone else, that I placed myself in the back burner in hopes that I would return a lot sooner than later. Five months later (to be exact), I have regained most of the weight I had lost last year, and reality hit me in the face when I looked in the mirror and I couldn't believe that I had let myself go. I lost all of my body shape from going to the gym for many months before I sto...