Entering the new year, I cannot look back at the last one. Often the question: “Where have we been this time last year”? Knocks on the door at the new beginning.
When we decided to go full on traveling in 2023 it seemed so far away and so exciting and in so many ways very exotic. But the year came to its end, we sold almost everything out and on January 2023, we traveled out with one way ticket. We started in Vietnam, soon became part of Traveling Village 1 and met so many wonderful people we ended up calling our friends.
Last year was so long and so short all in once - something I will never be able to understand or grasp with my human brain.
It has been truly interesting to follow up on our/mine in particular inner journey too. I went through some big changes last year and I have been on my own journey alongside with our physical one. I started my mentoring program with my dear mentor in January 2024, finishing it in Australia in September last year. I have traveled back home to my self, went through rebirth and gave birth to my own soul business. Alongside came my new webpage with beautiful photographs from professional photoshoot in Hoi An. If someone told me that I will be able to full embrace my power and my essence and fiercely stand in front of the camera, some years ago I would laugh. But last year I really came to recognition of my personal values and strengths. It has been a very intense and sometimes painful process but at the same time it gave me so many insights and understanding of who I truly am.
I found that beauty in the personal growth often comes from very painful places in ourselves that we need to revisit and find love and compassion to give back to our selves.
Last year I also figured out how much I dismiss the idea of equanimity between man and woman in the eyes of feminist movement. I so much stand for women and their beauty and power but I also believe that the fight for the right to work and earn money took so many qualities and gifts we as women carry in us. We are so much more, created by the nature side, and if we are not allowed to embrace all our gifts in the name of women rights, we are actually being deceived.
My inner growth and embracing my feminine power reflected so much on seeing how many talents and gifts I have both for my family and the world. I might not work full time, well-paid job but I do “earn” so much more by managing our time, interests and our traveling intenary. I am usually the initiator and the planner, force behind our trips, I find alternative ways and I am at the end saving us so much money on accommodation so at the end my contribution to our family unit is “equal” even when it is not paid.
Last year was a year of finding a new rhythm in our lives - rhythm of traveling but also just being. Our kids are much bigger and there is something new in every single way of being with them. We have more time for each other and for our selves as they do more things on their own and with each other.
It is a new period that I finally fully embraced and that makes me both proud and in peace with myself.
Entering the second year of being a full time nomad and perpetual traveler, we already have a majority of the year planned. It is a beautiful mix of community living, community setup with active living and chill time with those we charish and love, their is pet sitting adventures and traveling in our car most of the year in Europe.
There are plans and possibilities, wishes and dreams mixed in our desires and my heart is singing that melody as we slowly embrace this year too.
Staring with 6 weeks ski in Bulgaria…
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