Change is on the horizon: my 52 week challenge

  A lot of our understandings, fears, habits and beliefs as adults come from the experiences and constant conditioning we are exposed to as children and throughout our adolescent lives.  We soak up, especially as kids, any and all information around us, which helps to create our perceived world.  Unfortunately as kids and even as young adults (and as real adults) we aren’t able to co-create or choose our environment, we are kind of at the mercy of our family, friends, and life circumstances (or at least feel as if we are).   BUT, we live in a world where we CAN eventually CHOOSE what we want to become; how we want to ultimately live our lives.  Despite what societal conditioning or our previous circumstances have instilled in us, we can alter our course completely as conscious adults.  We have the ability to change and make the necessary choices to refocus our beliefs, habits, understandings and own self identity.   My journey the past few months has been trying to figure that out and

  Despite ending the previous week with a severe bout of food poisoning for almost 2 days (my iron stomach couldn’t handle the agua chiles shrimp….which is raw shrimp cooked in lime juice!), the past week was overall GREAT!  Coupling that with my ear pain, I definitely had a hurdle to overcome but feel like I jumped over it well!  We started the week staying at a different Airbnb that was actually closed off to the outside with real windows!  It also had AC, so we were able to comfortably enjoy our few days there without having to worry about bug bites and overheating!  It was in a different part of town called Zicatela, which is world renown for its overpowering waves!  We enjoyed our best meal out at a local beach restaurant (although, I guess they are all local beach restaurants!!!) and one of the dishes we got was a tostada topped with chapulines (grasshoppers).  We all tasted the dish and thought it was pretty good!!   I love being able to share my love of adventurous eating with