Pivot by

Can’t draw a straight line

kgittings — 2025-09-16 00:57:45 UTC

Experience: Someone some where at an early age told me I couldn’t draw/ paint/ sing/ do well in school.

Believe: That I wasn’t smart or talented enough to excel in the things I enjoyed doing or learning.

Action: I waited until much later in my academics to explore subjects the really influenced me both artistically and educational

Result: I went on to get a degree in Photography and have had my works shown in show case around the U.S. including Lone Star College

Pivot or Keep? Keep, definitely.

I became pregnant

kgittings — 2025-09-16 01:07:21 UTC

Experience: I became pregnant, after being told at a very early age that I was infertile.

Belief: That if I became pregnant, something would go horribly wrong.

Action: I never sought out bearing my own children and I would foster and adopt whenever the time came.

Result: I gave birth early at 26 weeks to micro-premie twins, who spent almost 4-6 months in the NICU, and came home with some difficulties.

Pivot or keep? Well I’m kind of attached to them now, so I better keep them

I am an alcoholic

kgittings — 2025-09-16 01:16:19 UTC

Experience: I worked in an industry where drinking was the life-style, and instead of monitoring my mental health when things got tough, I covered it up with drinking.

Belief: Everyone my age is drinking to party and cope with whatever, so what’s the harm in me doing it?

Action: I drank to excess and when the others stopped, I continued to drink

Result: I became a functioning alcoholic at an early age, and did severe damage to my life and body.

Pivot or Keep? Pivot, no question.

I had gastric bypass surgery

kgittings — 2025-09-16 01:39:25 UTC

Experience: I ate as a way to hide my feelings. I remember being at my grandmothers house and being upset that something hadn’t worked out. She gave me a pb&j and said eating makes the feelings better

Belief: That eating is a way to control my feelings and is the only thing I can control.

Action: I definitely took that literally and ate to excess without using any will power.

Result: I became morbidly obese and got weight loss surgery at a piviotal time in my life, and did not follow up with counseling, or my nutrition plan.

Pivot or Keep? Pivot.

My dad left

kgittings — 2025-09-16 01:48:15 UTC

Experience: My first memory involved my parents arguing, my father leaving, and my mother being laid up in bed crying.

Belief: You weren’t enough for your father to stay, so why will any other man think you’re enough to love

Action: I based my self-worth on men who couldn’t have care less about me and promiscuity.

Result: I have spent a life time chasing the love you see in romance movies thinking that will make me happier in the long run.

Pivot or Keep? Pivot, I can do more things without a man than with one!

Pivot

kgittings — 2025-09-16 01:54:26 UTC

From: My past is what people will always associate me with.

To: My past does not define me.

When my alcoholism, my illness, or my failed relationship step in my way, I will look at that and remember what it has all taught me, how it’s shaped me, and how it will NOT define me. I am stronger than everything that has happened to me and that I’ve done to myself. My daughters deserve to see a parent who isn’t perfect, but is constantly trying to become a better version of herself.