What's with the name?

Passionista? What the heck is that?!

Here's the story as I can best explain it...


Once upon a time I embarked on this thing called life. Had experiences as a kid, had experiences as a teen, had experiences as young adult etc. etc. All the while wondering... WHY AM I HERE? As I'm sure many of you have, I've had a series of rises and falls where I thought I had figured out what I was "meant to" be doing with my life. Yet something has always been missing. There's always this nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach with every great accomplishment that "Ya, that was awesome, but NOOOOT quite what I'm looking for". Next!


Round about 2008 I really started exploring this feeling of something "missing" a lot deeper. I READ a lot! I TRIED a lot! And along my journey much of what I came across asked "What is your passion?" or "What are you passionate about?". So I asked myself, what in the world am I actually passionate about? The answer is... QUITE A BIT. I bet the same is true for you if you really let yourself sink into it.

You see, when I first started exploring this question of my passions I couldn't really come up with a single thing. Enter.... my most recent vocation as an early childhood professional and parent educator - translation: one who plays playdough with preschoolers, learns a lot from hanging out on the floor with babies and shares insights with other parents about how to navigate the murky waters of the greatest and most challenging job on Earth. Hands down one of the most rewarding ways of spending my time & energy so far! So, how does this relate?

Well, the other day it hit me as I was pondering yet again the idea of what it means to be me.

Me = being passionate. What?! It was like I had been hit on the head with some very large object (or more likely some kind of toy!)

Often after parenting workshops and classes feedback from participants would be that I was "passionate". In fact, many friends of mine over the years have described me or my actions as such.

When I really sat down and thought about it, the best days for me are the ones in which I recognize that I have felt passionate about what I was doing that day and also that I was called silly AT LEAST ONCE! More on this later...

Therefore, in choosing a name for my blog (and believe me, I've procrastinated on this A LONG time) I decided that the best way to describe the contribution I'd love to add to the world is through passion. And thus, The Passionista Blog is born!

I'm excited about embarking on this journey and double extra excited to share it with you.

May your day be filled with laughter & light no matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, no matter where you are on this amazing planet, no matter when you happen to read this, no matter why you're reading it and no matter how you came across it.

Cheers!

Cassandra