Roger is leaving dentistry. That 4-word sentence is both scary and a dream come true. The hope was for Roger to be completely out of clinical dentistry by Thanksgiving, but since we didn’t sell our house, he is continuing to work one day a week, (to cover our house payment: praise God we have a very low and manageable mortgage rate that we refinanced last year). For years, dentistry has negatively affected his health, and he is only 33. The heavy stress and weight of dentistry began in the early years of dental school. He entered dental school with one of the highest DAT (dental admission test) scores and graduated 6th in his class. But with that, we began to see a slow decline in his physical health. We even spent a night in the emergency room during his senior year of dental school due to his anxiety and related cardiac and GI issues. When he graduated from dental school, we were so excited and praised God he had made it through with honors and awards of excellence. And we prayed that this was the beginning of something better. While there were moments of joy and peace, more often than not, we found ourselves holding on to the hope that things would get better. We would look around at dentists we knew, and while some (praise God) were doing fine, there were also too many whom we could visually see (and knew from personal relationships) the physical effect dentistry has had on them over the years. And while the stress of dentistry affected his physical health, a more pressing concern was his mental health. Did you know that (in regard to jobs) dentists have the 2nd highest... You can read the full blog post on Domestically Blissful. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness #OverwatchMe #spiritualhealth #physicalhealth #familygoals #familylife #careerchange