Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Ride the wave, baby. Back to school at 54.

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Think I will use this blog to write about my experiences of returning to school for my doctorate.  I have my first classes Friday.  This is a trade type school that is for Naturopathic Doctors.  It's one weekend a month Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Then you have about 30 or so hours of self study, and toward the end externships.  I am nervous, and scared and excited.  At 54 it's exciting to start a new path. 

Starting this new path, I feel is a reaction to the empty nest sydrome.  My mother in law died this year, the last of my parents gone.  Nothing is between me and death now, I am the elder in the family.  It took a lot of meditation and prayer to get to this point.  My daughter is moving to Boston this year, my son is getting married next year, and friends....well don't have many of those outside my family.  So I guess this is my way of coping with loss, start a new career. 

I put it out there in meditation that if this was the path I am to follow, that the money would become available.  Sure enough my business grew, and taxes were more than expected, and there was the tuition for the first year.  I had been stashing money, change really, and that covered 5 months of lodging.  So This Friday I am off to school.  Be careful when you put it out there, it often happens at head spinning speed, and you have to be ready to get what you ask for. 

I own a massage therapy clinic, so I felt becoming a Naturopathic Doctor, would give more to offer my clients to help them keep healthy.  That is my goal, to help as many as I can to health, including myself.  My husband is a saint, this is the 3rd time I've gone back to school, guess I'm one of those purpetual students. Join me in this journey, hopefully we can support each other. 


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