By: K. Crystal Griffith
As the end of the year comes to a close you will hear a million times over, it’s a new year, new you, new opportunities. All true and yet, for a medical mom warrior, change can be scary, and even more so for their medical loved one. Even in this moment, my medical warrior may be facing surgeries that could have an 18 month recovery. Talk about scary. Why would anyone look forward to that?!
And yet, that surgery can lead to less pain, more mobility, more opportunities for a fully functional life as an independent adult one day. In those moments of decision, as medical mom warrior, we have to weigh what’s coming, the potentiality of what could be, with the current pain and struggle. We tend to lead a chess style strategic life, always having to think ten, twelve, even twenty steps ahead.
How do we find the hope in the midst of those looming choices? The very question I’ve been contemplating. How do we walk into a new year with the same old life, same old script, same old information and expect a different result with a different momentum? There really is only 1 answer: HOPE … grounds for believing that something good may happen.
Did you know hope appears in the Bible over 100 times? Hope comes attached to the expectation something will change, will happen, will shift. As medical mom warriors, hope is innate. We breathe hope for the healing, change, and the opportunity for life to be as normal as possible for our loved ones.
H.O.P.E.
H-onoring ourselves, honoring our warriors as we make the best decisions possible in the moment
O-pportutnities to live the best life in this moment, as we are, as our medical warriors are
P-ossibilities for change, for healing, for life giving moments
E-ndurance for the moment, the day, the week, the month, the year and beyond.
We are running an ultra marathon at a turtle’s pace in a world that is lightening speed. Each step in deliberate intention to offer our loved one a life worth living rooted in joy and hope.
As you step into 2023, choose H.O.P.E. for you, for your medical loved one, and for 2023 to be the year that HOPE shapes into something glorious for both of you. “Let us hold fast the confession of our HOPE without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23).
You’ve got this Medical Mom Warrior!
As a gift to my fellow medical warriors, reach out and I’ll send you a few other quick tricks to add to your toolkit to keep your sanity and your child’s! Have a cup of tea with me www.KCrystalGriffith. com Medical Mom Warriors must stick together for sanity, medical life hacks, and connections while we walk a journey we never expected, with those we wouldn’t trade for the world. Until next time, stay healthy and reach out on social media @KCrystalGriffith. I’d love to hear your best Medical Mom Warrior tool in your toolkit.
Crystal’s mission is to activate medical mom warrior entrepreneurs with business strategies from the waiting rooms, holistic tools for kingdom health, and community keep them connected on their medical journey. She is a Dual Certified Inner Healing Practitioner, Business Coach and Challenges Consultant to help others who want to use virtual events to advance their reach. Email: KCrystalGriffith@gmail.com