If you told me a year ago that today I would be sitting on the patio of my apartment in Barcelona, peacefully sipping a coffee on a Tuesday morning while writing this blog post before I teach for the day, I simply would have laughed and likely gone back to anxiously responding to a work email on my phone. My current reality would not have been imaginable to me then and it is still hard for me to believe where I was a year ago and where I am in my life now. So how did I get to where I am today? Good question. It’s taken me a long…