The BE Project – In a world where you can be anything…. What will you be?
Meet Sara – her word for the 2023 BE Project is Balance
What word did you choose and why?
Balance
I chose this word for a very specific reason. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 11. A lot of people don’t understand what that means: It’s an imbalance of emotional and thought processing. So for a lot of my youth – i was very hyper -picture a bouncy ball in a box, that was my mind. I had a lot of high highs and a lot of low lows.
When I was 19, I tried to take my life. I turned to my parent’s and they helped me get the help I needed. I struggled at inpatient therapy – I knew that I had a good life – i just had a major chemical imbalance in my brain. So to get closer to getting balanced, I started seeing a therapist that I had been seeing since I was 11 and I met with a new Psychiatrist – so with this combination, I wanted to work on getting off of medication. For the life goals I had, I needed to be off of it all. With their help, I was able to do that. 10 years later, I had my beautiful son.
My son has a lot of health issues and working through that, really started to affect my mental health. On top of that, I decided I wanted to take on a massive project.
I now understand that taking on big stressors is really hard for someone like me. I do have an illness. I am bipolar. There is no cure. When I got of medication, my doctor explained you may be good for a while and you may struggle later on as life evolves. So with all of that – I’ve been working on getting back to balance. That means saying no to things. It means practicing yoga more than I teach. It means getting balanced in all areas of my life.