Kelsey Edwards Instagram – everything ✍️ happens ✍️ for a reason ✍️
i think back to the version of Kelsey who spent her life checking boxes based on what other people said would make her happy.
✅ go to college
✅ serve a Mormon mission
✅ work a corporate job
✅ high achiever at work/school/church
✅ focus on getting married & starting a family
i want to clarify that all of the above things are great, and if that’s been your life path, that’s awesome.
for me, the problem was that i thought that was the ONLY way to be happy. pick one thing, do the one life path, and if those things aren’t working out, something’s wrong.
as i neared the end of college @ BYU, i started to get very uncomfortable with how “wrong” things were.
all of my friends were married and starting a family, but i was single as ever. what was wrong with me? all i wanted was to be a wife/mom.
after working corporate jobs in marketing, PR & advertising for a few years, i realized how much i didn’t like life at a desk. i craved novelty and change and learned i didn’t like being an employee.
in 2017 i turned down an internship at one of the largest PR firms in NYC & went on my first international trip to Europe for 5 weeks. on that trip, everything changed.
i had never had so much space & so much freedom to just BE. no one had any expectations of me.
when i came back, i had a completely fresh slate. i realized all the tiny boxes i had been squishing myself into because people told me they’d make me happy.
9-5? religion? everyone else’s expectations of me? none of it was working.
i’m a creative at heart & knew that’s where my heart was calling me. when my college friends were starting cool corporate jobs, i started a business. i learned how to create multiple streams of passive income & moved to LA to pursue my acting dreams.
i started therapy & re-programming my mind—chipping away at limiting beliefs & the identities, lifestyles, patterns & habits i’d created around them (what i call boxes).
i created art (song & film) about this & have said yes to countless cool opportunities since moving here.
my butterfly effect is still unfolding, so take the leap! follow your dreams. here to help you along the way 🫶🏼 | Posted on 29/Mar/2024 08:32:41
