U campus musings

What a beautiful day to be. Ok, kinda corny statement, but man am I feeling it. I can’t really go into too much detail about my thoughts and my heart right now. Where I’m at is a pretty confusing spot. Yet, at the same time, I’ve been feeling a lot of clarity for the last week. It’s not really that important what to attribute this mindfulness to- more important is to acknowledge my now.

I’m sitting here under a large oak tree typing away on the University of Utah campus. This is a symbolic place for me you know. The U campus was my place of genesis to the person I am today. Not too long ago I would walk across this campus all by myself to my car after classes got out and ponder what would truly make me happy in life. I was a returned missionary, having accomplished that goal, with very little direction back then. That’s really when this ideal/vision began to form in my life about becoming a therapist. Daily, walking to by car, I spent my time figuring out my professional future, which is so intimately connected to all parts of me.

So being back here this week, at a substance abuse treatment conference as a therapist positioned in a job I love, with an organization I’m proud to be part of, doing the thing I love, is a full circle kind of moment… It didn’t come overnight, and it didn’t come without a lot of work, but I got here.

Now. It’s evening time again on the UofU campus and my mind naturally is racing through the what’s next to come… maybe it’s time for a new type of challenge.