Balancing a therapy practice, parenting, and full-time travel might sound impossible, but for Fightress Aaron, it's a way of life. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I chat with her about how her family turned a spontaneous nine-day trip to Portugal into nine unforgettable weeks, and how that experience launched their worldschooling journey.
We dive into the realities of raising and educating three kids on the road, running a therapy practice from anywhere, and creating a remote-friendly coworking space for clinicians. Fightress shares so many gold nuggets about flexible living, family connection, and building a business that supports your freedom.
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Transcript:
[00:00:00] Kym: Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Traveling Therapist. Really excited. Today we have our guest with us Fightress. I love her name, Fightress Aaron is here with us. She's got so many cool things to talk about. I don't even know how we're gonna get through it all.
[00:00:13] Fightress, welcome to the episode. I'm so excited to have you here. Let's just start with the question I ask everybody, and how did you go from being just a traditional therapist to a traveling therapist?
[00:00:24] Fightress: Well, it started with an expat quiz. My husband and I sat and took 'cause we were like, we wanna travel more, you know, we think we wanna start worldschooling and traveling with the kids. So, where do you wanna go first? And we took a expat quiz that asked about climate, all different types of things, and Portugal was number one on our quiz results. And so we said, well, let's go to Portugal. so we did.
[00:00:52] Kym: how long after taking the quiz did you actually go to Portugal? Was it just like, Hey, let's go like tomorrow? Or was it like a little bit of planning behind it?
[00:00:59] Fightress: It was like within a month maybe where we booked the tickets.
[00:01:03] Kym: I love the spontaneity, so. You've got the coolest story though. So originally you had planned to go for what, nine days to Portugal?
[00:01:11] Fightress: Yes, we booked our trip for nine days, our Airbnb and everything. And once we got there, we fell in love with the country, with the culture, with the people because we were trying to see so much like we started, we flew into Porto. And then we ended up in Lisbon and so from north all the way south. Yeah, we fell in love and we called Delta. I told my husband, I said, see how far you can push the return flight out?
[00:01:38] Kym: Whoa. Oh my God. I
[00:01:39] Fightress: he extended it?
[00:01:40] Kym: That is like the coolest thing.
[00:01:42] Fightress: Yeah, he extended it as far as he could, which was the first week of April. And we got there in February. And so he extended it out as far as we could while still keeping our tickets. And our daughter turned two in Portugal, and so we actually had to pay for her flight.
[00:01:58] because she had turned two while we were there. We weren't planning on being there in March and her birthday. And so we booked it out and we were just like, alright, cool. And it really forced us to like, it, it gave us confidence in knowing like, one, we can travel, we can travel with kids and travel well.
[00:02:17] And also two, knowing that. We have everything we need. Like, that's one of my core values and beliefs is I have everything I need. I am everything I need. And here we are on, you know, we packed for nine days with five people that extended to nine weeks. And so it was like, did we pack enough? And it was like, well, yes, we have everything we need.
[00:02:39] You know, it's important for us, like our kids learned. Only carry the most important, valuable things to you. Like don't just carry stuff to have stuff. And we were just traveling up and down Portugal from the beaches to the mountains. It was amazing.
[00:02:54] Kym: like Airbnb and Airbnb or just like, whatever popped up. Hotels, Airbnb. Wow.
[00:02:59] Fightress: Airbnbs we did a couple of home exchanges. We spent my daughter's second birthday um, outside of Óbidos in Viseu. I hope I'm pronouncing that right, but we stayed right on the beach. It was absolutely amazing.
[00:03:14] Kym: Oh my gosh. Okay, so how old are your kids? You have a 2-year-old and you've got two other kids too, right? Three total.
[00:03:21] Fightress: Yeah, so 2-year-old daughter a soon to be five year-old daughter. She'll be five this month actually. And then a 10-year-old son, he turned 10 in August and that kickstarted our trip to Canada. 'cause we were like, well, he's turning 10. And I asked him, I said, Hey bud, where do you wanna go? He was like, I've always wanted to see Niagara Falls. Okay, cool. Let's go.
[00:03:39] Kym: I love it. Oh my gosh. So you're over there for nine days, which I'm guessing you planned it like a vacation, right? So were the kids, the kids in school or were you already homeschooling? Like how did that work logistically? 'cause I'm sure people are listening. They're like, How do you do that with kids? Like, you know?
[00:03:55] Fightress: Yeah, so we have always only homeschooled, we school year round they don't know summer breaks and spring breaks exist. Don't tell them. And so we're able to, school on the go and we integrate into communities and cultures and learn like, you know, wherever we are, there's always an opportunity to learn, and take it outside of just traditional textbook stuff, like learning the conversion rates of the Euros and now here are the Canadian dollars, like just practical things for our kids to learn how to navigate. And so wherever we are, we plug in, you know, we connect and they continue to learn.
[00:04:40] Kym: Wow. Oh my gosh. Now, when you went to Portugal, you took the nine days and turned into nine weeks. do y'all have a home base? So you just kind of like left and then it was like you could just like kind of button down the hatches. You didn't have to worry about it too much and travel. And then did you come back and then go to Canada or have you just kind of been going?
[00:04:58] Fightress: Our home base is in Alabama. And that's where our coworking office is, my practice is. And so we came back from Portugal, went back to Alabama reset, recharged, checked in, checked on things there. And then in June of this year, we took off, 'cause we came back from Portugal in April the end of April, and then reset in May. June, we took off road tripping across the states to Canada to make it to Canada by August.
[00:05:29] Kym: And you've been up in Canada since then, right? You're still up there.
[00:05:33] Fightress: Since August. Yep. So we've been here two months now.
[00:05:36] Kym: Wow, And you plan to be there for, did you tell me six months?
[00:05:40] Fightress: for six months. So 180 days we can be here on a visitor visa. And so of course we're always gonna max out in our, our visitor time here. Why not? We're here, you know? And we've just been driving across from the Niagara Falls region, Toronto, Winnipeg, ud, like we have traveled all the way across.
[00:06:00] And we're gonna spend the holidays in Calgary. We are in Radium hot spring. British Columbia now. And we'll go back to Calgary spend the holidays there and then we'll go off to Vancouver in January.
[00:06:12] Kym: Wow. Oh my gosh. How cool. I have so many questions, like, I wanna know about worldschooling, but I also wanna know about your practice and your co-working space and all of that. let's talk about your practice and then maybe we can come back and do the worldschool in a little bit more.
[00:06:25] People don't always know, like the difference in homeschooling and worldschooling and all of that stuff. The nuances. So can we talk about your practice and how you could just like kind of dip away from it and then come back and you know, all of that. Let's just talk about how you've managed to make that work.
[00:06:40] Fightress: yes, of course. Um, so I was in single private practice up until January of this year. I expanded into group practice. And so that's what I do and I'm fully remote. When I'm in Alabama, I have clients that come in and we do EMDR work. We do EMDR intensives when I am in town. But everybody else, you know, they're all okay with being completely online and those that want in person.
[00:07:07] My practice office is inside the coworking office. And so the clinicians that work with the group practice are in the office in Alabama and they offer services online and in person there. But I am, you know, I've seen clients the entire time as I've traveled from the mountains of Portugal, during a hailstorm.
[00:07:29] and we've had some, crazy times. But as long as I have wifi, and my headphones, I can make anything work and, you know, just the confidence in being able to do that and like, I'm not sure how this is gonna look because I question myself like, how are you gonna do this?
[00:07:46] how are you gonna make this work? Like you're, you may not have a home office everywhere you go. And I go back to, I have everything I need as long as I got, you know, somewhere to sit my laptop, I bought a couple of travel lights and my headphones, i'm fine. I do, I have everything. That's all I need.
[00:08:03] Kym: Do you have a system for making sure the WiFi's gonna be good before you settle on an Airbnb or,
[00:08:09] Fightress: Yes. I always ask you know, what the speeds are. And then if they don't know, I send 'em a quick link like, Hey, run this test and send me a screenshot. and then with my phone, if it came down to it, I can always connect use my mobile hotspot, which I have had to do sometimes. But 95% of the time I haven't had any problems.
[00:08:29] Kym: amazing. What cell carrier do you have? This is pure research for me 'cause we have at&t and it is terrible.
[00:08:35] Fightress: Oh goodness. We have Spectrum Mobile.
[00:08:38] Kym: Oh, okay.
[00:08:39] Fightress: I know they're across the states. I'm pretty sure they're across all the states. Um, We used to have T-Mobile, but once we started traveling, like we will have all these dead spots and I, we can't have dead spots trying to homeschool. We need wifi. It needs to be consistent. And so we have Spectrum Mobile and then also when traveling, we use Airalo.
[00:08:56] Kym: Oh, what's that? Tell us.
[00:08:58] Fightress: It's a, e-sim, you just download the app, you buy your data package and then you can use your phone as a hotspot or you can get a local number if you need a local telephone number. But it just gives you that added data and it connects to the local towers.
[00:09:13] So our service is based from the states, but when we were in Portugal, we found Airalo and that way we were able to make our phone a hotspot. We didn't have to worry about overages or data caps, anything like that.
[00:09:27] And we are doing the same thing here in Canada as a backup because in Canada our carrier has a data limit, and of course. We don't have time for that. So we added Airalo again and that way we're able to still stay connected and just have some consistency there.
[00:09:42] Kym: That is awesome. So it's like literally an app you download and then you just like flip it on and it flips over to that service and finds the towers and you're good to go. Wow,
[00:09:51] Fightress: and it's affordable. It's not really expensive. It takes three minutes, you know, to download the app. Purchase the e-sim and then you just go to your phone settings, flip it and done.
[00:10:00] Kym: Whoa, that's awesome. Does it work in the United States?
[00:10:04] Fightress: it does.
[00:10:05] Kym: Okay. I've seen it, but I, I never actually knew how it worked, so That's cool to hear that it's, helpful. Amazing.
[00:10:11] Fightress: Yes it is. And we have, for the practice side of things, I use spruce. For our phone system. And so that way, you know, I'm still able to stay connected with the team, with clients and it's HIPAA compliant. And as long as I have internet and data on my phone and yeah, I can access it from my computer as well, and it works.
[00:10:31] Kym: Nice. Oh my gosh, these are great tips. Now, the coworking space, is that like a side hustle, like another business you guys run, like a building or something that you own? Like I'd love to just hear about those logistics too. 'cause traveling therapists, right, we're very entrepreneurial. We're always looking for other income streams. So I'd love to hear a little bit about that. For people that are listening, might wanna do something like that.
[00:10:54] Fightress: Oh yes, of course. So I started the process of working on the coworking space in 2019. It was before the pandemic. I just found out I was pregnant with my second daughter and then the pandemic hit, so there were so many delays on getting it bill and everything. And finally, in January of 2024
[00:11:15] Kym: Whoa, whoa.
[00:11:17] Fightress: Seriously, it took, I work with a builder, like we had the plans, like I was able to, you know, design the office spaces. He's like, well how many offices do you want? How big should the rooms be? And just looking over the plans and everything. And I would go out there like once he told me, okay, look, we got the land. The dirt is correct. 'cause apparently that's the thing, trying to figure out dirt you can build on. It was very interesting. And so I would go out there like when it was a hard hat construction walking around with a baby on my back and you know, kids right along with me. Like that was a whole homeschool lesson in itself.
[00:11:56] And with the builder and, you know, he laid the foundation January, 2024. We did the grand opening in May of 2024. Then we left and went to a Disney cruise. 'cause mama was tired.
[00:12:09] Kym: Mama needs a cruise.
[00:12:10] Fightress: Oh yeah.
[00:12:11] Kym: Oh my
[00:12:12] Fightress: Yeah. But that, so my husband manages the coworking space. We designed it in true, you know, traveling therapist form, like we designed it so we can control everything remotely. The doors, cameras, organized contractors to come out for cleanings, everything is digital, how you book the spaces.
[00:12:32] Everything is on an app you know, code and app access base. So we don't have to be there. We do not have, staff on site because it's just not needed. if you have a code, you get in, you use the app to open the office, there's five offices. And everyone just books the office that they need for the time they need it. You can rent it for an hour a day, you can become a member and you're there all the time. and that's been really helpful for us in Yeah.
[00:13:01] Kym: And is it, just for your clinicians or is it just for anybody that just needs a coworking space and people just like randomly just kind of find it and rent it kind of thing?
[00:13:09] Fightress: Yeah. It is not just for our clinicians, it's for anybody. We have other entrepreneurs in there that use the space. We have an attorney in there. We have life coaches. Marketing professionals.
[00:13:20] And then we also have people that are just in town you know, for the day and they need somewhere to go that's quiet for their meetings or whatever, and they'll just pop in and buy a day pass and just spend the day working in the office.
[00:13:33] And it's also a good networking opportunity, for local professionals, for our clinicians and just that community aspect and collaborating. Yeah.
[00:13:42] Kym: And it sounds like you designed it so it's like, HIPAA compliance, so you can have the door closed. 'cause I, I've heard about like some coworking spaces, it's just like open and it's hard to like, have privacy, but it sounds like this is perfect for like clinicians to be able to just be
[00:13:56] Fightress: Oh yes. I was very intentional even down to the type of materials in the walls. I had to pay an extra 15,000 to get like soundproof. I don't know what it's called. The builder told me, he was like, well, here I was like, I need people when they're in the office and their clients. I don't want the person next door in the office next door to hear their entire conversation.
[00:14:18] And so he was like, well, here's what we can do. It's gonna cost a little more. And I was like. That's fine. It's worth the investment and just being intentional to that level of privacy and compliance. 'cause as clinicians like, that's so important. I don't wanna sit in the office 'cause I've rented office spaces before where I'm like, if I can hear the person, you know, and so I didn't want that.
[00:14:43] So we definitely, we set it up and then we have a member's lounge. We have a comfort closet because. Sometimes you forget your laptop charger. Sometimes you forget your headphones. Sometimes you need a blanket. Sometimes you need a space heater. Sometimes you need, lights for your session or something.
[00:15:00] as a neurodivergent person, like sometimes you need a fidget, sometimes you need sensory headphones so you can drown out noise, white noise machines like I was very intentional with just every aspect. And we have, desks that are, you know, the standing desk. The sitting desk.
[00:15:19] And when, when I was there this summer, I upgraded one of the office chairs, so like one of the three tier ones. So you can sit crisscross, you could sit crisscross, you could turn it to where, you know. The back of the chair is in the front of you if you wanna sit that way.
[00:15:34] like It's just very accommodating for how we work, like how everyone works. Because when you are a therapist, you're sitting sometimes for hours and that's not healthy, you know, for us and for our bodies. And so the standing desk, I have little flip props and little wedge board things, walking pads, things like that, that really, integrate your physical health as you do your work. 'Cause you shouldn't have to sacrifice, your health for, for your job to work.
[00:16:04] Kym: That is so cool. So what, like if somebody wanted to rent one of those offices for an hour, like what, type of price point are we looking at? I'm just so curious about the model and how you set this up.
[00:16:13] Fightress: Yeah. So it's set up, you get more bang for your buck at $97 per day.
[00:16:19] Kym: oh, nice.
[00:16:20] Fightress: Or it's roughly like 22 bucks an hour. If you just want it for an hour. Usually people are in there, we do have some that come for an hour if they just have one meeting, but usually they come back for the day or either join because they're like, oh, wait, I didn't realize this was so nice. there's coffee, there's pastries,
[00:16:40] you know, there's coconut water, there's kombucha. Like There's energy drinks. there's all the things, right? I modeled this after my own home office and comforts like even this time of year, you know, it's starting to get cool. And so just having the plugin devices where you can put your coffee
[00:17:00] Kym: Oh,
[00:17:00] Fightress: on your desk
[00:17:01] Kym: Oh my gosh. I wanna go work there.
[00:17:03] Fightress: It's really, it is really, I love when I'm in the space working and seeing my clients and connecting and just knowing that the other clinicians that are there, you know, they're comfortable, their clients are comfortable. Like, that's so important to me.
[00:17:18] Kym: Oh, that is so cool. So you gonna like franchise this model now.
[00:17:21] Fightress: I guess I should, I need to, huh?
[00:17:23] Kym: I said, yeah, I'm listening to it. I'm like, man, we need one of these in every city. I know there are places in cities, I see them, but I've never actually gone into, well, I did go into one because I went for a massage and she had like a massage table set up and one, and it was kind of like this, it was like super fancy. I was like, this is so cool. but how, how awesome.
[00:17:42] Fightress: as a part of our homeschooling journey, as we were traveling across the states to get to Canada this summer we stopped in Raleigh, North Carolina. That's where the founder of the app that we use, it's called coworks. So the coworking app that our members use, the founder is in Riley in a coworking space there. So that was a field trip for the kids.
[00:18:05] Kym: I like that.
[00:18:06] Fightress: so they got to meet my 10-year-old, got to meet the founder and creator of the app um, and some of the developers and talk with them about tech and stem and just see it in a practical way like. This is what people use when they're at your office mommy.
[00:18:21] Yes, it is. And this is how it works. Like talk to him about how it works. Because I used to work in software development prior to having kids on the Air Force base, and so I'm always looking forward to an opportunity to learn about some tech and because I don't get to do it as much now. And so that was just a really cool way to integrate learning. You know, when people say worldschooling and homeschooling like. This is how you do it.
[00:18:46] Kym: I mean, to me, to me it makes so much more sense for kids to learn this way than like some stupid textbook curriculum that somebody decided they needed to learn about. It's like ridiculous. I mean, it's so much more
[00:19:00] Fightress: And now my son.
[00:19:01] Kym: Yeah.
[00:19:02] Fightress: It is, and now he's starting to get into coding and robotics. Like it's opened up this entire door for him that I didn't have to force him in. Right. Like it's completely his interest guiding what he's learning about.
[00:19:19] Kym: Oh my gosh, how cool is that? That's a good segue back into kind of the worldschooling thing a little bit. What is the difference in like homeschooling and worldschooling? Or is there a difference? I feel like people have told me before that like worldschooling's more like what you're talking about, like experiences and turning it into a curriculum, but I don't know exactly.
[00:19:38] Fightress: worldschooling is homeschooling while traveling. That's it. 'Cause you're traveling the world, you're learning, you're homeschooling on the go, And they have something called road schooling for those that are on the road, like in RVs and things. But it's just traveling and homeschooling.
[00:19:53] Kym: So is there like a curriculum, like, they have to pass a certain amount to get to a different grade? Or is that, are grades like not even a thing with worldschooling? I've just always wondered about that.
[00:20:03] Fightress: So each family and their needs are unique. And it also depends on where your home base is, what the laws are there. we follow the homeschooling laws in Alabama 'cause that's where our home base is. And so I am more of a unschooler. I don't use, standard, typical curriculum and structure in that way because I have special learners and I am also a neurodivergent homeschooling mom.
[00:20:27] And so I need all the accommodations myself and sometimes the rigid, curriculum. And following all these things, like it can feel very restrictive and just prevent growth for me, growth for the children and cause frustration for them. And so I'm more of a unschooler where their interest leads, what we're learning about, like my son with visiting the Coworks app founder and office.
[00:20:57] And now that's a natural segue into tech for him and robotics. Like these are things he had mentioned before, like of course I want him to learn them. They're always in the back of my mind. But now he is guiding and has autonomy over what he's learning, how he's learning, and he's also, so he learned how to read when he was seven, and I was so concerned.
[00:21:21] I'm like, oh my gosh, you'll never learn how to read. So he learned how to read right. then my daughter, she turns five soon. He's teaching her how to read using the same book that I taught him. It's like a hundred lessons to Teach your kid to read. And I was like, I can't mess this up. Right. so now he has the exact same book and he's teaching his younger sister how to read.
[00:21:41] Kym: how cool is that? Oh my gosh. so like what does your typical day look like? Like is it like hubby's managing the coworking space? The kids are maybe doing a lesson or something, and then you've got a couple clients. Like, I just wonder like what's a typical day or is there even a typical day?
[00:21:57] Fightress: Our days are pretty atypical 'cause we're, we're a very flexible bunch. We have to be, we're not early risers, like early morning people. Like we have to ease into our days. And that for me, like integrating, you know, nervous system regulation, emotional regulation, and just honoring your needs in every way.
[00:22:19] Even as you, how you approach your day. And so we don't get up doing anything. Like we get up and we are being, as we enter into our day, we're being present, we're being grounded, we're nourishing our bodies, we're moving our bodies. And then a natural progression for us is, you know, around 10 or 11, it'll be time.
[00:22:42] We've eaten breakfast. We'll do a lesson, we'll do some reading, we'll go outside, get some sunlight, walk around a little bit, and then go somewhere, you know, maybe to a park, have a picnic for lunch, go on a hike or something. More lessons like we always carry a book with us. That's kind of become our thing. Like everybody always has a book. And so we can stop and read a book anywhere.
[00:23:06] We'll do that and then, before dinner, that's usually our, okay, let's do your math. Like things we have to sit and focus on, like that's what I'll catch up on my notes and me doing things. And I only see clients Thursday nights.
[00:23:22] Friday, mornings and Friday evening and nights. 'cause I have to have a break in between so I can go be mom and stretch. And then I see clients on Saturdays same kind of half day at night. 'Cause I'm more of a night person and so that works for me. It'll, allows me to wake up, before the kids on those days have my sessions.
[00:23:44] By the time, they're having lunch, I'm wrapping up. I have a few hours where I can connect, go sit and talk with my husband, look over whatever they've done, do an art project or something with them, and just spend that family time. And then in the evenings, hubby's taking over dinner and I'm seeing clients on those days and by the time I wrap up at night.
[00:24:07] He's already done bath. And so then I get to read to the kids at night to do bedtime routine. 'cause they know, well, mommy's finishing up, she's gonna come tuck us in and read our book and do our nighttime routine. And so I do that. Then once the kids are off to bed, then hubby and I, we check emails, kind of check in for the day, like the business aspect of things.
[00:24:28] Was there something that came up at the coworking space that we needed to talk about today? Or he'll just kind of catch me up, I'll catch him up, talk about the plan for the next day, and that's how we roll. Like very flexible.
[00:24:40] Kym: Oh my God. Y'all sound like so much fun.
[00:24:42] Fightress: We are, we're, we're a pretty fun bunch and it takes, you know. It takes just honoring what you need and also honoring your capacity at any given time because, traveling, homeschooling, working a marriage with three children, three young children, it's a lot. You know, I mean, I'm not gonna lie, like some days are more challenging than others, but we all learn to honor our capacity and to communicate where our frustrations are.
[00:25:14] Like my five-year-old can tell you, I'm overwhelmed. I'm gonna go in the the sensory swing, or I'm gonna go get the sensory swap sock, or I'm gonna go to the sensory tent to calm myself down. Or she'll be like, you know, mommy, it's been too loud today.
[00:25:30] And so then we'll sit on the floor and we'll snuggle and I'll give her a hug just to calm her little system down. Or my son, or say, you know. He'll go sit under the table sometimes, like if we're in a space where we don't have like a popup tent or anything, especially traveling, he'll go sit under the table and he'll say, mommy, I'm gonna go read under the table for a little bit.
[00:25:49] Just to get himself regulated. 'cause we do have a 2-year-old, you know, two year olds are very loud and RamBox, just little creatures. And so, our family, my husband, he gets up every day, 5:00 AM hits the gym like. That's his thing. I'm snoring. I'm more of a, I'll get up and stretch and do a yoga routine after lunch.
[00:26:09] You know, I'm not hardcore into the gym, but like he prioritizes his mental and physical health as well because we all have to be well and we don't have to sacrifice our mental and physical wellness for the sake of homeschooling, traveling, working. It's like you can integrate it all together. You don't have to miss out on any aspect of your health and wellness.
[00:26:32] Kym: That is amazing. It sounds like y'all literally travel with a sensory swing and a sensory tent for the kids.
[00:26:39] Fightress: We do. We travel with, we have a, a popup sensory tent. We have, it's called a sensory sock. My son calls it the squirrel suit. 'cause he was in occupational therapy at some point and that's what the OT therapist would call it. But he packs his squirrel suit, in his bag. And, we like our, our need for accommodations don't stop just 'cause we're traveling, you know? It just helps everything and it also helps even when we're not at home. We're always at home.
[00:27:10] Kym: Oh yeah. We have a couple things. Like I always have my blanket and my pillows with me wherever we go. You know? I pop 'em on the bed, it feels like my bed, you know? Oh my gosh. I just love hearing everything you're doing. It's so cool. And I know eventually you're gonna be offering like some coaching and that sort of stuff too, so I hope you'll come back and talk more about that too.
[00:27:30] Fightress: Yes, of course, because just along the way, like as we plug in and integrate with local homeschooling families, and meeting up with other homeschool therapists and just other traveling therapists like I met up with groups of therapists in Queenborough and Portugal that I still keep in contact with.
[00:27:47] There's a whole community growing therapist in that area and in Lisbon. And so I keep in touch with everyone on WhatsApp, but also in meeting other moms, other homeschoolers, other traveling therapists like I noticed, I'm like, you know, just telling them about how we set up wherever we are to accommodate our needs, like.
[00:28:07] That not even being something they've considered. And I'm like, you know, you can't, you can't fully, well, you can't homeschool well, in my opinion, if you're not okay, you have to be okay. And even as a traveling therapist, like you said, you have to have your pillows and your blankets. it's okay to need your things and to accommodate yourself and support yourself wherever you are.
[00:28:31] Kym: Yes.
[00:28:31] Fightress: It's okay to prioritize you in that way. And I've found myself just over the years, having this same conversation with moms professionals, and I'm like. So what are you gonna do with all this knowledge? Here you are, like you're traveling, you've learned all these things, you've experienced all these things, you've created all these systems, all these processes, and you've integrated, the somatic work, the EMDR work into how you live your life and function, and how you support your special needs children and your own special needs. Like, okay, girl, it is time to share that.
[00:29:05] Kym: Absolutely. Oh my gosh, I can't wait. Yeah. It's so amazing. Thank you so much for taking the time today. It's so interesting. I just love everything you're doing. I really do.
[00:29:15] Fightress: we do too. We're, we're a pretty fun bunch. Like it's, you know, it's definitely not typical in our circles. Like all our families think we're, we're completely lost it. And maybe, maybe, maybe we have, like, maybe we've lost restriction and maybe we've just found freedom in a different way. Um. and we're having a blast doing it. The kids are growing, they're thriving. Our marriage is thriving, like business is going well. Why not?
[00:29:42] Kym: Uh, Why not? Oh my gosh. Amazing. Well, I hope you enjoy the rest of Canada and I can't wait to have you back sometime when you've expanded even further. And thank you so much for taking the time today.
[00:29:53] Fightress: of course. Thank you so much, Kim. It's been a pleasure.