Melissa Wood-Tepperberg

It's like this never ending.

And I will honestly tell you here in my 40s, I'm like,

Is there ever going to be a day where I just wake up and it's like, you know what?

You can just skip this day.

For me, I can't.

I have to continue to quite literally go to work inside myself because it has opened up a world beyond anything that I thought could have ever happened for me.

And

with knowing that it's shifted and changed everything inside of me and to be able to experience what it shifted in other people, I'm like, this is my work, you know, and it's what has created other beautiful things in my life, but there's actually nothing more important in any day to me.

And I really mean this and I'm a mom and I'm a wife, but I can tell you that

taking care of my mind first comes before anything else.

And if I don't,

Things are just different.

I'm just more reactive.

I'm not who I know my like purest, highest self to be.

And it's, it's just this, you know, it's this never ending, like a beautiful journey of literally opening my eyes every day and realizing that even when I don't want to do it, you know?

In like complete honesty, it's hard to even say without choking up.

It is from not growing up in a happy home that I like will do anything.

and everything in my power to bring love and happiness and joy and fulfillment into like the energy of my home.

And I think when you grow up in a house where there's just mental struggles and mental illness and just mental health, you know, it's a battle.

And for me, it's just knowing that I could so easily