Category: Authentic Living
Taking a leap of faith once again into the unknown as I follow my heart obediently towards the type of life I want to live. Written Mid April 2023 Three years post pandemic and we have war waging, the cost of living souring and threats of economic crisis whispering in our ears. It could be argued, and with much...
This post starts where the previous one left off, with me trying to make my way on my journey from employee to entrepreneur, on the quest to bring my radical dream of going back to the land a reality. December 2022. I was preparing for a frugal Christmas after months of living thriftily after I quit my 9-5 teaching...
At the end of June 2021, I quit my stable job at the language academy where I had worked for 7 years to pursue a radical dream of leaving the city, returning to the land and embarking on a new vision for myself and the world. When I took that leap of faith, I had no doubt that I...
I believe we all have hidden gifts and talents that we don’t even know we have. In this post I share how, by following my hearts calling, I first discovered I could write. Written in celebration of the three year anniversary of this blog, I hope that it can inspire others to discover their own hidden gifts and encourage...
After a summer of rural living, coming back to the city has been a shock. Despite my last post, in which I spoke positively about living with uncertainity, the realities of my uncertain life situation upon returning to Madrid have shaken my confidence some what. After blogging about my dream of leaving the city to embark on a earth-centred...
This post follows on from my last one, in which I fill in the gaps about what has happened since I quit my job to follow my dream of leaving the city and starting an earth-centred life in the countryside. Here I deal with the biggest challenge that I have come up against in my quest to make my...
A year has passed since I quit my 9-5 job in order to follow my dream of leaving the city and embarking on an alternative life in the countryside. Since then, my blog posts have focused more on sharing some of the internal changes that have occurred in this time rather than the external ones. I have talked about...
Revelations from the Heart Cave – Part 1 How a simple-life trip to the Sierra de Gredos over Christmas turned out to be so much more than a typical festive break and instead became a guide to discovering what it really means to live in alignment with who I really am. I believe that the pursuit of living in alignment...
Travel and the art of losing yourself to find yourself. After 10 years of wandering, the search for home continues. I started travelling alone when I was 20. It was my second year at university; the summer holidays beckoned and with them the prospect of fun and adventure at a summer camp in the forests of Maryland in the...
The journey towards an earth-based, sustainable life in the countryside just got one step closer! Over a year and a half has passed since I committed to my radical dream of leaving the city and creating a life in the countryside. In that time many things have changed and life got a little bit, shall we say, bumpy! Between...