Quality

Outside of being a Pastor’s wife and a mom, I am a full time outpatient pediatric physical therapist. I love it. I have an absolute passion for it. I have been in the field for five years now. I do not know everything there is to know about pediatrics in the world of PT, I will admit that from the get-go; I have so much more to learn. I would say becoming a mom has made me a better PT; as well as staying up on research and continuing education courses. 

I was talking to a patient during a session about focusing on the quality of movement, not the quantity. I think that’s where I’m in life right now. Since becoming a mom, I have stopped fighting with my body like I did in my early twenties. I started treating it better with quality foods, doing the type of exercise that I enjoy, and focusing on making sure I am healthy so I can be around for my boys. Lately I have been taking the time to reflect on how lucky I am to have a body that functions and can do hard things day after day when I need it to preform. I think that gets overlooked in our social media saturated society. 

Maybe it comes with age, I’m not sure yet, I love the time I get to spend with family and friends. I do not get to spend quality time with friends too often because of the phase of life we are in right now. I am treasuring it more now than I have before. Who knows when the next time will be when I get to get lunch or coffee with a friend who moved and is visiting? Plus, these are relationships I want to last forever. You have to put in quality time to harvest beautiful, deep relationships. 

Time has gone by way to fast with my oldest. I have painfully become aware that there is going to be a day where I will not get to pick him up from day care/school, read to him at night, or talk to him uninterrupted while he is sitting on the toilet (potty training is rough). I have had to work hard at slowing myself down, not getting caught up in what I think needs to get done at the house because all that can wait. It will be there all day. What I have found I want most in life is for Carson and Mason to look back and know that Trevor and I deeply loved them with everything we had and that they were, and will always be, the most important people Trevor and I had the honor to care for and parent. I hope that is communicated to them by how we talk and interact with them daily.

I hate the “New year, new me” saying. Hate it. Honestly, you are the same you in a different year. People do not change much. Behavior change does not happen over night, research has told us that over and over again. What I do believe in is a shift of perspective that a new beginning can bring. I am hopeful that 2023 will be the year of quality, not quantity, in a lot of aspects of my life.

Shalom,

Rachelle