Finally!!
Good morning everyone!
Well, I finally passed all my licensing exams! I feel like I just graduated from college because now I start the career part of my journey with corporate training and online coaching modules, real life scenarios in field training, etc.
Whew....it's been quite a few trying months because I have never had to work so hard for something before on my own merits, not even my degree. Maybe it's my age or the fact that nobody else was helping me pay my bills, etc but I was putting pressure on myself to pass all the testing mostly just to prove to myself that I could start over and that I could succeed outside of my alcoholic marriage.
My son is struggling, though, so please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. He's graduating from HS. He has a lot of trepidation about his future and he's extremely worried about his father. Apparently, my XAH has been ramping up the drinking and the depression and my son is worried about him. He spends a lot of time over at his dad's and I'm hoping that changes if he can pull off community college and live off campus. The school is 45 miles away and I want him to live closer to it instead of feeling like he needs to babysit his dad.
Yesterday I took him to an educational neuropsychologist to get evaluated for his learning disabilities and he lets it out that he's been struggling with depression. I knew he had anxiety issues but I didn't know just how much he was struggling. He does go to a counselor twice a month but I suggested to him yesterday that he should go to some Al Anon meetings when he's feeling low and start finding people to talk to who can relate to what he's dealing with because my network of friends from program have helped me so much in dealing with my own fears and anxieties.
Anyway, I go to corporate training on May 15th! Things are moving fast and I'm excited. The next 2-3 months will be jam packed. How did it get to be MAY already? WOW!