Mental Health Awareness

​Someone asked me how I was doing on Mental Health Awareness Day, which was yesterday, October 10. Here's some transparency, my mental health check in....

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~I'm an essential employee, a teacher, who teaches in person and virtually ( it's not live) during this pandemic. Need I say anymore?

~I'm dealing with the aftermath of two hurricanes and evacuations and the emotional affects of that.

~As a mother, I'm dealing with the feeling of not being able to provide for my own children. The best place for them right now isn't with me, and that thought is sickening to my stomach.

~Trying to recover after losing everything in a house fire 5 weeks ago. The insensitive and emotionally triggering insurance people that I've dealt with through this ordeal have made this process to recovery so much worst.

~I'm still out here trying to ensure my JOY, for educating the future, is seen by students despite all of those things listed above. Y'all it's been an emotional ride daily but ANYONE who knows me, knows that those babies at OKMS and my 9th graders at OHS are my .

I'm managing all of this while still praising God for being my Jehovah Jireh. I'm tired y'all but I'm still PUSHing...
#PeaceAndBlessings