When your heart beats loudly enough, you have to follow it!
…To crazy places.
…Through logistical impossibilities.
…Anywhere.
…Everywhere.
It doesn’t need to make sense.
I’m not quite sure what happened, but recently my heart started drumming. And, to hear what it was saying, I turned my brain into a lower gear – so much so, that when people ask me what I’m doing, I honestly don’t know where the answers are coming from.
Every day since has been an adventure. From giving notice at my apartment, to quitting my jobs, to traversing continents, pondering where I need live, launching a website and a book, running workshops, and trusting that every next step will land correctly because I am not even sure what type of terrain I am treading on.
South Africa was my first stop – maybe it was time to move back? – Reconnect with my roots…
A sea of beautiful people, sunsets and rises, smiles, hugs, hikes, feasts, dives, cycles, and adventures. Three months of family and friends; enjoying summer, while storms raged in Portugal. Three months of feeling African beats and soil between my toes.
But I had to keep moving.
I returned to a place I’d cried saying goodbye to – Portugal. I had unfinished business. I’d left in such a hurry that I’d left chaos as my memento. It was great to resolve, great to reconnect (while trying to keep a low profile – I was just passing through), great to adventure, great to delve into the familiar. And just as I got into rhythm, I had to leave again.
The only things I am certain of in life at present, is that I need to be an adventure therapist, and that I need a boat. The latter will come soon (If you want to help me pirate one while I work out the financial hurdles, let me know 🙂 But, the other, I am chasing like a wildfire. Which is why I headed to Belgium.
Every two years, Europe’s Adventure Therapists gather to teach and learn and laugh and inspire. Two years ago, I curiously stumbled into Latvia for the gathering. This year I was submerged in organisation, workshops, logistics, and the heart of the gathering. And as I mingled in a sea of people with a shared passion, my heart beat even louder! I was exactly where I was meant to be!
I spent so many years floating around the world, following the wind, learning skills, meeting exceptional people, getting beautifully lost, and dreaming. Now I’m following my heart (not sure exactly where I left my brain 🙂 But, after seeing the transformative power of adventure in my own life, I want to help others have more adventures, big and small!
So, here I sit, a week after the conference, in a tiny village in the Netherlands. My body is spent, my smile is huge, and my heart is dancing some silly jig and I wanted to share this jig with you! I don’t know where you are at, but I hope it’s a flipping good place! If you need more adventures in your life get a copy of my free eBook, or check out my new website, or better yet – get in touch! Life is too short to not be lived fully!
