My name is Tricia and I was not born but was completely raised in West Virginia and have decided to raise my family here as well. I have been married for ten years and have three children Charlie, Wyatt and Josie. My husband owns a restaurant called The Cheese Melt that we opened in 2014 as a food truck and as of 2023 opened our first brick and mortar business. 

While my husband was running the food truck business, I was fortunate to be able to stay home with my children in their early years and, although financially we had our difficult times, it was a choice I don’t regret making. However, as I watched my husband grown his business and himself as an individual I craved having the same autonomy in my life. As a stay-at-home mother we always put the needs of everyone else around me first. Whether it was physical, mental, emotion, or even spiritual my identity felt lost or shoved so far to the back that I could only see the needs of others as my sole purpose. As a result I began to feel isolated, angry, resentful, disconnected, guilty, and may other negative emotions that came and went. I search for a way to fill the suppress or tune out my unhappiness. I began to read to shut out the world that I felt resentful towards and filled it with stories that covered up the isolation and lack I felt. In the end it was only an illusion of an escape but in order to drown out the negative emotions I disconnected even more from the world around me. I would get angry when I was interrupted and became even more secluded from the outside world (including the one within my home). I’m not sure that it was a “one day I woke up…” events but eventually I decided that I would never achieve my true dream, goals and potential if I continued living my life solely consuming and never creating. 

To say that my spiritual journey is an up and down one would be extremely accurate. I have periods of great connection and feel like I am moving in the right direction to wake up one day and lack the motivation and allow myself to fall back into old habits. Year after year I have wanted to create a business of my own but no ideas really resonated with me on a soul level. I had decided that I didn’t want to start anything until my last child was going to school. Then when my husband opened his brick and mortar shortly after sending the last kid off, he needed me to help full-time at the restaurant. Now, my husband is very supportive of my desire to build and create something of my own and as frustrating as it felt to have to put off this dream a little longer I still found a lot of joy getting out of the house and interacting with adults and reestablishing my confidence to interact with strangers. Something that I didn’t find many opportunities to do regularly staying at home for years raising my kids. 

My biggest “breakthrough” was when I found a course on Women’s Holistic Healing on Udemy (a website that offers courses in a wide range of fields). One section of the course discussed Women’s Circles and I knew almost instantly, on a soul level, that I had found my calling. As someone who felt isolated and not finding many opportunities to interact and feed my own needs in any way I knew I wanted to provided a service to other woman to come together and find connection, joy, and strength within themselves to find their own passion and purpose in life. 

Stay tuned as I begin building my business and unleashing my full potential. I’m so excited to begin this adventure.