What a F*cking Year!

You’ve come a long way Baby!

On the 5th of July last year. My world fell apart, came crashing down, the trapdoors opened and I was free falling for many, many months. My 12 year relationship was over in a heartbeat, completely out of the blue, no warning, from perfect to none existent overnight. Wtf! I actually didn’t think I’d ever, ever recover, ever. This was my life, my perfect little life, our perfect little life, or so I thought.

My post today isn’t a ‘Feel sorry for me post’ it’s a celebratory, 12 months later ‘You’ve come a long way baby’ post!

For a lot of people, they’ll have noticed me getting up quickly and dusting myself off, climbing back to the top of that mountain physically and emotionally, very quickly. This is what I chose to share with many people. To save any dignity and pride I had left.

But for those closest to me dealing with the devastation, they helped me up, shared my tears, held my hand, the late night chats, the therapists, the friends, the voice notes, them believing in me, them empowering me, they know they saved me, and my sanity and I will always, always be grateful for those people having my back and their unwavering loyalty!

So, 12 months on, I’m now truly that better person, not just appearing that way, to save face, but actually in that place – better, stronger, more resilient, more successful and empowered. Happy! Very happy………

I am that person, and I’m absolutely going to take the credit for the work, the support was from my girlfriends and my kids, the rest was the work I did and I’m really proud of that. Of getting through the toughest time of my life, apart from when my Dad died!

Anyway, thank you for reading my ‘You’ve come a long way baby’ post and if you were one of the people above, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I’m off to celebrate ME and my NEW LIFE today with one of those special people, if I have to do that for every person who helped me, I’ll be gone for quite some time 😊 let’s hit the beach Cathyann ❤️