Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
This summer I committed to a 8 week program of working with kids with special needs, from autism to ADHD. Through the program the kids are shown simple OT (Occupational Therapy) skills as they do fun things such as playing sports, swimming and music.
I'm halfway through my disability summer camp and I feel as though after many trying weeks this week I've truly fell into my groove. I felt so at home at the camp this week and I loved my campers. I am genuinely seeking to be a life changer for them. For the first time at camp I felt my selfishness disappear as I ran to wipe my kids tears or starved as I ran back and forth to make sure my kids had everything they needed for their meals to be satisfied. Sometimes I hurt, cared and talked to these kids as if they were my very own.
This week really just takes me on a trip down memory lane to my training and even before that when I agonized for days about whether I could handle the stress of this job. To be perfectly honest disabled kids intimidated me a bit before I began this program. However, fear without experience is sometimes simply uneducated fear.
How could you truly know if you never try?
One of my kids this week was seven, had epilepsy and was hearing impaired. He never wanted to wear his hearing aid and you know what we did? We told him his hearing aid was a secret gadget for him to complete secret missions with and he wore it! This is only one of the many heartwarming stories that I was able to experince this summer.
It is important to leave what we think we know about ourselves to find what we are capable of.
"If it scares you you're doing something right!"
