Heal & Grow with Nickie
Join your host, Nickie Kromminga Hill, and her guests on a journey of personal stories and insights into healing and growth from past and current trauma. The focus is on fostering true connections through conversations centered around vulnerability and authenticity. The goal is to collectively heal and find opportunities for growth, promoting a sense of togetherness.
Heal & Grow with Nickie
Episode 52: Fifty and Thriving
Turning fifty has never felt so liberating! I've recently celebrated this milestone birthday and can't wait to share how different the reality of fifty feels compared to what I expected. Remember all those "over the hill" jokes about forty? Well, fifty has proven to be even better—a time of self-acceptance, growth, and exciting new beginnings.
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I just celebrated my 50th birthday. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to Heal and Grow with Nikki. I'm your host, nikki Krumminga-Hill. Here we explore anything and everything that might support us on the journey to mental wellness From hope to grief, possibilities to challenges, joy to heartache. Nothing is off limits. Let's reflect on our lives and discover ways to heal and grow together. I'm so glad you're here with me. Hello, hello, hello everyone. It's so good to talk to you today.
Speaker 1:I was going to say long time, no see. But, friends, did you know that that has racist origins and we should not say that anymore? Yeah, get to the Google machine and look it up. It'll give you all the information that you need. At any rate, I haven't talked to you all since February. Things have been going well. I actually haven't been in hiding like I have been in the past. I've just been doing other things that fill my soul. So I have not spoken to you in quite a while and I hope that you are doing great.
Speaker 1:So over Memorial weekend I turned the big five, oh, and I wanted to just chat with you about it briefly today, or maybe not briefly, we'll see how long this is. So when I was younger people always talked about how old 40 year olds were like Lordy, lordy, look who's 40, and over the hill. And so I grew up thinking that 40 meant that you had one foot in the grave. And once I hit 40 and realized that's absolutely not true, I just went about my life and did not think about 50 at all. I just never really thought about, oh, what does it mean to turn 50? And how am I going to feel when I'm 50? And is 50, quote unquote old? And I got to 50. And I got to tell you it's pretty damn great. So far Granted, I'm only about three or four days in, but still 50. 50 feels good. As people say, 50 is nifty or what's that snl sketch where she was like I could kick, I could stretch and I could kick. Anyway, here I am at 50 years old and it feels good. And it feels good to tell people how old I am. I've never had a problem telling people how old I am, but I did wonder, as I aged and as I become an aging dancer and actress, if it was just better for me to keep my age under wraps. But nope, I'm going to shout it from the rooftops that I'm 50. And I am here to have a good time and to continue living well.
Speaker 1:Speaking of living well and I might do a whole nother podcast on this, we'll see I am doing very well. I am doing better than I have in years, years I don't know how many years, but a very long time, five plus years I feel better than I ever have, I think. Physically, mentally, spiritually, my friendships, my marriage, everything feels pretty dang good right now. That doesn't mean that I am without chronic illness. That doesn't mean that I am without mental illness. It just means that I everything feels good right now. Everything feels managed. I have been learning how to pace myself and it has made all the difference in the world. I just feel pretty good.
Speaker 1:My day-to-day is more good than not good, and that's a switch. For many, many years, most days were not good and when I had a good day, it was like oh my gosh, this is amazing. Now I have more good than bad. I'm working hard to maintain that. Again, I could talk about that in a different episode, but I did just want to pop in today and say hello and say I'm doing really well and that's thanks to a lot of you, a lot of you that listen are daily friendships, meaning people I text with or talk to somehow daily. I text with or talk to somehow daily. Many of you are weekly, monthly friends, thank you. Thank you for what you do for me, thank you for the support that you have given me and that you continue to give me to lift me up and to give me the energy and the reason to keep going on the days that I don't want to.
Speaker 1:I'm going to wrap this one up. It's going to be short and sweet, but I did want to let you know that Paul and I have started a business, an actual business. It's called smorgasbord arts and right now we're only on Instagram and it's sort of an umbrella company for all of the things that we do. So like. Paul's performances will be under Smorgasbord Arts. Paul's lessons will be under Smorgasbord Arts.
Speaker 1:My paintings, which are giving me life right now, choreography performances everything is under the Smorgasburg Arts umbrella, that Instagram page. We'll eventually get to Facebook as well, but that Instagram page is how you find out what we're up to and where we're going to be and all the different ways that you can support us. The Pretty Good Merch Co is not done at all. That's also under the Smorgasbord Arts umbrella. So we just created a place where everything that we do is encompassed under Smorgasbord Arts. So find us on Instagram. And find us on Instagram, it's just S-M-O-R-G-A-S-B-O-R-D-A-R-T-S. Smorgasbord Arts.
Speaker 1:Say that 10 times fast in and out of podcasting, and thank you so much for taking the time to listen and I hope that you are doing really well and enjoying your kickoff to summer. Age is just a number, baby. That's all. It is All right. Thank you so much for healing and growing with me today. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, health or professional advice. I am not responsible for any losses, damages or liabilities that may arise from the use of this podcast. This podcast is not intended to replace professional medical advice.
