Friday, February 5, 2021

Week 1 Project: My Full Sail Story Expanded | HOLDING UP THE SKY



Women Hold Up Half The Sky, 2019, Jeanine Michna-Bales


Before I started Full Sail, a traumatic brain injury wreaked insanity and uncertainty on my life.

 

Albeit a mild concussion, this ghost in my brain was the effect of something unknown and seriously the matter with me for the past few years.

 

 

I always thought I wanted to work by day and create by night.

 

As a single mom, providing was my primary goal, while creating and entrepreneurship are in my soul.

 

 

But then, I returned to work as the doctors ordered, and my injury worsened.

 

Denying my better judgement and forsaking my well-being to be this team player my company needed. 

 

Because of that, I was forced to resign from the harassment of management and their wretched “work or be disciplined” policy.

 

My patience with them was lost when I opted for self-care over the audacity of corporate oppression.

 

Because of that, I was losing my creative bent- working with people who didn't care two-cents about my well-being.

 

Uninterrupted sleep, ER trips, Morphine drips, and antidepressants were daily obligations to survive my new inabilities.

 

Because of that, a friend sent a link to FSU where she was enrolled, suggesting I consider the Creative Writing degree program.

 

She’d been the confidant who knew best that creating was the quickest way to my recovery.

 

Until finally, I decided again, that investing in the cost of art school at fifty, was more rewarding than surviving in the kraken -that is corporate America.

We agreed that even if I got better overnight,  the betrayal of my former employer had radically redefined me.

 

And ever since then, I am focused on my healing, whilst curating the #spiritjewelsofmamashouse photo series, whilst embracing my studies and prospective career in Digital Cinematography.    

 

My network of creative and artist friends inspire me to create, teach and learn - and hold up the sky with purpose. 




 Anyone can teach you about love. I can make you good at it.
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