inspirational | Carey Portell https://careyportell.com Thrive*Big Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:07:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://careyportell.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/thrivelogo-150x54.png inspirational | Carey Portell https://careyportell.com 32 32 I have HUGE news!!! https://careyportell.com/i-have-huge-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-have-huge-news&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-have-huge-news https://careyportell.com/i-have-huge-news/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:07:34 +0000 http://careyportell.com/?p=2650 What would you say if I told you I finally finished my book?  Finally!   Ten years after our car crash and eight years of writing on and off.   What was my catalyst?   My friend Kim.  Kim passed from cancer late summer and in one of our deep talks to and from chemo, she said, “Just […]

The post I have HUGE news!!! first appeared on Carey Portell.]]> What would you say if I told you I finally finished my book?  Finally!   Ten years after our car crash and eight years of writing on and off.   
What was my catalyst?   
My friend Kim.
  Kim passed from cancer late summer and in one of our deep talks to and from chemo, she said, “Just finish the damn book, Carey” .  She brought me back to a place I have been avoiding for a few years.   I didn’t want to go back to that hurtful place and delve through the details of how hurtful this situation has been to myself and my family.  I was in a hurtful place already with her passing and used that to head back in time. 
 We are looking at an April 9th launch date of the e-book and that next Tuesday for the paperback version.  Currently we are editing the story,  creating the book cover, getting the marketing together and it is all going to fast!  I have a fantastic team helping me because what do I know about writing and publishing a book?????   Exactly, nada! 
 After my first meeting with my editor, it was engaging how she viewed the message of my story.  She said, ” Carey, I love how you didn’t view your situation as glass half full or glass half empty, but maybe you just need a new damn glass!”  Interesting, right?    I didn’t intentionally write it that was nor think about that being my mindset, but I feel I will learn all kinds of things from those that read this true story!   I can’t wait to hear what message YOU hear!   
Some of you are friends, some family and some of you connected through my speaking engagements. 
  Come connect with me on any of my social media outlets so I can take you through this book process with me.  I will be asking for your feedback!
The post I have HUGE news!!! first appeared on Carey Portell.]]> https://careyportell.com/i-have-huge-news/feed/ 0 What have I been up to? https://careyportell.com/what-have-i-been-up-to/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-have-i-been-up-to&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-have-i-been-up-to https://careyportell.com/what-have-i-been-up-to/#respond Sat, 05 Dec 2020 16:06:58 +0000 http://careyportell.com/?p=2593 It’s not right to just leave……. I skipped out on you guys since Spring and I apologize for that.  Like many of you, this year of 2020 has not been my best and I have been floundering around, trying to find my way back to……….me.I have basically been in quarantine since January when I had my […]

The post What have I been up to? first appeared on Carey Portell.]]> It’s not right to just leave…….
 
I skipped out on you guys since Spring and I apologize for that.  Like many of you, this year of 2020 has not been my best and I have been floundering around, trying to find my way back to……….me.
I have basically been in quarantine since January when I had my thirteenth surgery stemming from my car crash in 2010.  I had hardware removal of my left ankle due to a screw backing out of my bone.   Just as soon as I was recovered from that, Covid hit and we were truly in quarantine. 

That last surgery caused a major flare up of my neuralgia (CRPS) and I was wheelchair bound and in excruciating pain, March through May.  I questioned who I was and what my purpose was going to be if I could not function as well as I did before and with all speaking events canceled for the rest of the year, I lost who I was.
Our youngest child was graduating from high school and planning to move out in the summer.  I felt I was losing my front seat ‘Mom card’ as well.  My life was like a ping pong ball being tossed around in a hurricane with these major life changing events all happening simultaneously.

Since, I have pulled myself together.  My pain specialist is helping me get control of my neuralgia.  Some speaking events are taking place virtually, with hopes that sometime in 2021 we will be speaking live again and since I am now spending more time in my wheelchair, I have been practicing my wheelies!   If I am to travel alone, I will need to be able to pop myself up over thresholds, curbs, and such and this is a necessity.    So, enjoy my short video of practice, practice, practice. 

 I’m writing this in my deer blind on a gorgeous sixty-degree evening, hoping the deer don’t mind the motocross racers practicing loudly on the other side of this tree line. 
I have more news, but I will save that for next time.

Happy December!
Carey

Oh and check out my Etsy shop, we have some new products from my days of photographing on the farm, especially this new mask!

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