Written By: Lauren Howard
There is no substantial difference from my day-to-day activities now from a year ago.
And yet, everything is different.
Not because the activities are different but because the understanding of what all of it means is.
A year ago, I was happily running telehealth programs. I was writing daily for elletwo. I was working with clients in the telehealth and behavioral health spaces. I was building Medicare strategies for companies across the country.
But I was still searching. I still spent Saturday afternoons with this distinct feeling that I had not figured it out. I would feel like I was running circles around myself trying to figure out why I had so many individual pieces that made me happy but no big picture to put them all into.
I don’t know why I felt like I needed a big picture, but I did. I was desperate for the thing that would make everything come into focus.
Life felt fuzzy, even if I loved it.
I would amble around feeling like I was on the brink of something all the time. I was so close to figuring it out and never got there.
We have all of these hard conversations calling BS on what we’ve been told about working while being a woman, but are those enough?
We wrote about burnout and mental health, but was that enough?
We offered telehealth services and built programs for other people, but was that enough?
It wasn’t.
And then, after a particularly tough experience, it all came into focus.
I was building all of this to go back in time. I wanted to run my clinic again.
In a matter of hours, I knew what we were building. LBee Health was born. The founding leadership team was signed on.
And I knew what enough was.
And now . . . we’re here.
Nothing is certain, but I am at least certain that I’m moving in the right direction.
No more searching. No more spinning. No more restless anxiety about what’s on the other side.
That’s priceless.
Founder & CEO at elletwo
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