My cup is full for the first time in a decade ❤️ This is a personal post for those of you who have followed my journey throughout my years as a caregiver to my late partner battling cancer.
Last week, I woke up one morning and felt it. I was overwhelmed with happiness, playfulness, and joyfulness, and tears started to come. I was back! That feeling that I had long been searching for was back.
You see back when I was 19-20 years old I left home to travel the world, hitchhike and live my best hippie life. I had a playful approach to life, I was a ball of happiness, seeking adventure and just joyfully going through life.
When I was 22, I met my late partner who was diagnosed with cancer, and it forced me to grow up quickly. From that point forward, I was by her side the whole way through before she unfortunately passed away when I was 27.
When she passed, I was dealing with grief and trying to make sense of life and how I was going to move forward with my life.
Plus, I was already running Fit Vegan coaching business at that point and had the responsibility of serving our clients and taking care of my team of employees.
I knew that the “spark” I had for life, the playfulness I had, had been gone for many years at that point and I was doubtful to ever get it back again. I had accepted that this experience had “hardened” me for life and that I would never have that same deep feeling for the playfulness of life.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying any of this negatively. I would go back and do it all over again, knowing the trauma I got out of it, and it made me the man I am today.
It’s now been over 4 years since she passed away, and I have been doing my internal work with the help of my incredible and supportive wife ❤️
And at the end of 2024 when I had my call with my life coach Colm, I set my goals for 2025 and he noticed how this time my goals were more “fun goals” compared to previous years which I didn’t think much of at the time.
But as the past three months have gone by I’ve found myself really having fun with the process of building Fit Vegan, of leveling up my relationship with Ivy and honestly something that played a big role was stepping back into playing basketball more seriously because it made me feel like when I was a child playing.
It feels like I’ve entered a whole new chapter of my life and I wanted to share it with you all because many of you have been following me for years and were around during these challenging times in my life.
I’m also sharing it because there might be some of you who went through hard times or are going through hard times, and you potentially don’t see a way out or fear that life won’t be the same after.
It won’t be, BUT you have the opportunity to chose to grow out of i,t and to be fair, I never thought I would go back to feeling like when I was 21 again, and I did. So, if it’s possible for me, after years of working on myself and time passing by because you can’t rush your healing.
Then trust that it will all work out because everything happens for a reason ❤️
Maxime Sigouin
My cup is full for the first time in a decade ❤️ This is a personal post for those of you who have followed my journey throughout my years as a caregiver to my late partner battling cancer.
Last week, I woke up one morning and felt it. I was overwhelmed with happiness, playfulness, and joyfulness, and tears started to come. I was back! That feeling that I had long been searching for was back.
You see back when I was 19-20 years old I left home to travel the world, hitchhike and live my best hippie life. I had a playful approach to life, I was a ball of happiness, seeking adventure and just joyfully going through life.
When I was 22, I met my late partner who was diagnosed with cancer, and it forced me to grow up quickly. From that point forward, I was by her side the whole way through before she unfortunately passed away when I was 27.
When she passed, I was dealing with grief and trying to make sense of life and how I was going to move forward with my life.
Plus, I was already running Fit Vegan coaching business at that point and had the responsibility of serving our clients and taking care of my team of employees.
I knew that the “spark” I had for life, the playfulness I had, had been gone for many years at that point and I was doubtful to ever get it back again. I had accepted that this experience had “hardened” me for life and that I would never have that same deep feeling for the playfulness of life.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying any of this negatively. I would go back and do it all over again, knowing the trauma I got out of it, and it made me the man I am today.
It’s now been over 4 years since she passed away, and I have been doing my internal work with the help of my incredible and supportive wife ❤️
And at the end of 2024 when I had my call with my life coach Colm, I set my goals for 2025 and he noticed how this time my goals were more “fun goals” compared to previous years which I didn’t think much of at the time.
But as the past three months have gone by I’ve found myself really having fun with the process of building Fit Vegan, of leveling up my relationship with Ivy and honestly something that played a big role was stepping back into playing basketball more seriously because it made me feel like when I was a child playing.
It feels like I’ve entered a whole new chapter of my life and I wanted to share it with you all because many of you have been following me for years and were around during these challenging times in my life.
I’m also sharing it because there might be some of you who went through hard times or are going through hard times, and you potentially don’t see a way out or fear that life won’t be the same after.
It won’t be, BUT you have the opportunity to chose to grow out of i,t and to be fair, I never thought I would go back to feeling like when I was 21 again, and I did. So, if it’s possible for me, after years of working on myself and time passing by because you can’t rush your healing.
Then trust that it will all work out because everything happens for a reason ❤️
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