Thank you Jodie and AA’s! Another wonderful piece of encouragement!

I did laugh a little on the inside when they said “don’t do anything drastic like quit your job or religion”. These are exactly the things that I have done! I left my religion long ago, and it’s taken me awhile to finally get to a place where I don’t see others as “trapped” in their religion as I felt I was. But that is exactly how I felt for myself, trapped, and finally letting it go was so freeing for me!

As for my job… well I recently quit my job of the last 10 years. I felt stifled, I felt trapped, I felt horrible. I’ve been experiencing so much personal growth in the past few years but my career growth had stagnated. Money wasn’t the issue, or at least not the main one. Without going into detail (which I actually started to do, but backspaced it all because it was becoming a memoir), the job had been destroying my mental health for years. It was affecting my relationship with my wife, family, and friends. Despite my personal growth, I still had this massive weight chained to me and I couldn’t feel joy. I couldn’t feel the freedom that I know I had.

So yeah, I quit and I’ve never felt better! I’m happier now even though I’m really not sure how I’m going to pay my mortgage or have enough money left after bills for food. I’ve rediscovered my love for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yet when it comes time to pay the bills, I can tell you that blessings have poured in from sources that I never would have guess or predicted! I still give freely of my time, energy, and money (as much as I’m able to give, I still make self-care a priority), and the energy and blessings always swing back around just in time.

It is indeed a new adventure. Do I recommend everyone do the same? Not unless they’re masochistic and slightly insane, like me. But I can say this, if it’s time for a leap of faith then you will know. If you continue to rationalize it away, if you continue to listen to “conventional wisdom”, then you will feel the weight as I did. Will you hurt people in the process? Probably, and that really sucks. I hurt my wife when I quit my job. But she sees now that it was necessary. She sees now that she has her husband back, since I had not been present in the last few years. She is still learning to trust, a lesson that my entire life could be a case study for.

So don’t do anything drastic until you know that need to do something drastic or else your life will fall apart otherwise. Freeing that energy within yourself opens up space for blessings that you couldn’t believe until they are experienced!