A Career As A Patient Assistant

In 2012, I realized my life was not the life that I wanted to be living. I was unhappily married, severely overweight with several health ailments and not the kind of mother I wanted to be to my daughter. It was then when I came to the realization only I had the power to change my direction in life. On December 31, 2012 I underwent weight loss surgery and had a Lap-Band placed. Now, if one thing I have come to realize in life is that people are going to judge you no matter how hard you try and convince them not too. Instead of wasting that time and energy on someone else, I put it back into myself. This choice was by no means an easy choice, and some might even say it is the easy way out but until you have walked a mile in my shoes…. What you might not realize is that any kind of weight loss surgery is just a tool, it’s not the answer. To this day I still continue to have to work hard for what I want and committing to make the lifestyle change necessary for my future.
I truly loved this job because not only was I able to meet and talk to potential candidates and share my story, to me, the most important piece of it was I could relate to them. I was fortunate to have this job until they closed their doors in 2015. When this happened I thought to myself, “How can I continue to share my story and empower others?” That’s when I did some research and decided on becoming a Professional Life