So my youngest son Dylan, 21, who has Dysgraphia (a learning disability) sent this to me which really hits home with our family.  Dylan struggled in traditional school since 2nd grade.  Finally, by 4th grade we had an excellent teacher that recognized he was slipping too far behind through the traditional schooling.  It was at this point that as a family we decided to pull him from traditional schooling and homeschool through Mountain Valley Academy.  We were able to teach him a different way of learning.  Many believed he would not graduate highschool however we are proud to say he did and is attending San Marcos State University majoring in Human Development. He plans on continuing on to his Master in Marriage & Family Therapy.  He still faces many challenges in the traditional university system but continues to triumph and is a strong advocate in educating professors and people about dysgraphia and alternative ways of learning.  He is an amazing young man who we are very proud of and excited to see all that he has and will accomplish!!

So this is my first time blogging.  Not really sure about how to do this but decided to give it a try.  So I asked myself what's blocking me from this experience? Well, probably the same thing that gets in a lot of people way:  FEAR.  What will I say? What will people say back? Do I really want to even take the time to think about what to say?  Fear certainly holds us back from an experience because we are afraid of the unknown.  Ambiguity  can be scary for us all.  Now some of you may be wondering how fearful can it actually be to write something down.  Well fear takes many forms and paralyzes many people from truly experiencing something new.  In therapy, I teach people how to relax, meditate and visualize how to let go of fear and move through it by accepting that is just an emotion that we need to acknowledge.  As we begin to acknowledge this emotion, we can then begin to decide how we want it to motivate us and not hinder us.  We may not know how it will turn out when we finally make the decision to not let fear control us but what we do know is that we have made movement.  This is my movement!  Will you move too?