50 is NIFTY

A Few of the FEELS from today…

Tomorrow I turn 50… and today absolutely wrecked me in the best possible way 💛

The day started the way many of my days do lately — quietly, in the HBOT chamber before the world woke up. Just me, oxygen, gratitude, and reflecting on how different life feels than it did a few years ago.

Then my mom flew in 🥹
My bestie Jan scooped her up from the airport, and I got one of those momma hugs that heals parts of your soul you didn’t realize still hurt.

Coffee showed up from my sweetie ☕️
And then somehow the day just kept getting more beautiful.

Rhonda and Aaron came with ALL my favorite foods — cooked to order with love — while their amazing family had apparently been secretly setting everything up yesterday under the cloak of nightfall like some sort of healing-center birthday ninjas 😂

The flowers? Stunning.
The raspberry cake made by one of my favorite patients? To. Die. For.
And somehow we all squeezed into our little half garage while Mother Nature decided to make it rain all day.

Honestly though?

The heartfelt messages were my favorite part.

Because THAT is why I do what I do.

It’s why I keep pushing even when I’m exhausted.
Why I keep learning.
Why I refuse to give up on people.

I will fight for my warriors until they get their vitality back. Period.

When I think back to turning 40… I had just lost weight, met someone who ultimately became one of the reasons I lost my health, and a few years later my body completely crashed.

And now?

Now I KNOW this next decade is going to be the best of my life.

I found my soulmate.
I found my tribe.
I get to wake up every day and build something meaningful with people I love.

We are building:
✨ a new healing center
✨ healthy healing homes for our warriors
✨ a community centered around vitality, resilience, and hope

And after everything — pneumonia, losing my health after COVID, all the rebuilding — I have found more health in the last quarter than I have in YEARS.

I am grateful for every single breath.

As I sit here tonight listening to the HBOT chamber plugging away with my mom and my honey inside it… I honestly cannot even imagine what this next year holds.

But if today taught me anything…

It’s that I am surrounded by extraordinary humans.

Thank you for showing up for me.
Thank you for bringing me to tears.
Thank you for reminding me why I always go the extra mile.

I love you all more than you know 💛