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Excerpt: 4 years ago I was freshly entering the world of motherhood with a 4 month old. As an expat in Europe with no family nearby, and travel & social restrictions stretching as far as the eye could see, it was excruciatingly isolating. My mind was racing with feelings & thoughts with nowhere to go, and my husband just didn’t get it. But then, I started writing. I started writing about my experience as a mother so far, all the parts … the good, the bad, the sad, the shameful, the loss of self, the fearful, the powerful, the teary eyed joyful moments, the excitement for what was to come, the gratitude for getting to guide this little soul through the world, and the really cool journey I was going to get to go on with this baby as she grows mind-body-soul during her lifetime.
Excerpt: It was 2017. I had woken up at 4:45am to take the insane African road commute to the office in Luanda, Angola. By 7:00am, I was already knees deep in problem solving potential catastrophic events .. suppliers stuck at borders, flight delays due to the conflict in Syria, a billion dollar new venture project presentation due in an hour .. By 9:00am, my head would be throbbing, dizzy. I was a high functioning, ticking time bomb of stress. This would go on with no end in sight, a constant cycle of adrenaline, until one day my body screamed from within, you need to BREATHE. I often think back to those days of complete neglect and disconnect from my body. I was so outwardly praised, that I forgot about my inward power. There’s only so long that you can live in this way. When I moved to Norway in 2018, the chaos of that demanding job in Africa fell away and what came next was arguably more difficult. Moments of nothingness to fill.
Excerpt: I’ve been asking myself a lot lately, “WTF am I doing”? There’s a compass from within me that is taking me to exactly where I need to be, but why does it feel so scary sometimes? Why does it feel so exhausting (full bodily) sometimes? It’s requiring me to take the biggest leap of faith quite arguably of my entire life. And that brings me to the Akashic Records today. If you haven’t heard of the Akashic Records before, they are believed to be a library on another plane of existence, that holds an energetic log of all events that have or will ever occur in the entire universe. It’s a space that is difficult to comprehend to us, and is guarded by divine beings. And with many mysteries of what happens when we leave earth and where were we before earth, this is one of them. Everyone has the freedom to believe what they individually want to. And so about a year ago I accessed my Akashic Records. Fresh off the pain of almost losing my daughter in the ICU, delivering the eulogy at my grandfather’s funeral, and feeling overwhelmed by a career that no longer aligned with me, I was feeling rightfully lost.
