Soul Advocate

If you would have told me a month ago that I would be unemployed and having endless amounts of free time to spend with my daughter and read, meditate, organize, cook, take online classes and focus on my well-being, I would have thought it was a dream. For I had wished for so long to have an escape from my reality - my 8-5 job as a medical speech therapist in a hospital where although I was helping my patients, my soul knew I belonged elsewhere. For years I felt imprisoned in a life that wasn’t mine. I made a promise to myself to live a life without regrets - as I see how fleeting life is everyday. I have witnessed people and animals take their last breaths of life and have observed how there is no sense out of who lives and who dies. For in my experience, some of the most amazing humans are the ones whose lives end too soon. I didn’t realize how much my job took an emotional and psychological toll on me until the universe decided to pull me out - or Coronavirus/COVID-19 de