Change doesn't come overnight
that's why I'm going to take a break!
Hello lovely you!
I hope you are having an amazing day, full of sunshine… Here on our beautiful island the sun is shining brightly again, fuelling us with some Vitamin D!!
Yesterday I got an insight that I would love to share with you, because this has some implications for my little corner on the internet here.
Turning life upside down
This month three years ago, I knew my life would not be the same anymore. That year I spend 6 weeks on Corfu finishing my first novel. It was an amazing time, even though it was still in the middle of lockdown life. When I got home I knew two things.
I will live on Corfu
I will be a fulltime writer
Today I have my own place on this amazing Greek island and I am writing full time. But I had to make some sacrifices. I had to leave a long and loving relationship, I had to leave everything I knew, I had to change houses almost every two months for two years and find a whole new community of people I felt safe with.
I made my dream come true
But three years later, sitting at my desk in my house, looking at the olive trees, I realise I made it. I uprooted myself and planted myself in a new place. And as with plants, I am slowly coming alive again.
With the move to this new place I also moved my blog to Substack, because I saw the opportunities to build a beautiful community of women who wanted to be free, just as I am.
But because of the forementioned situation I was in, I didn’t really gave it the time and energy it needed. At first it felt like a failure, seeing all my peers on Substack growing, while I was trying to get my feet back on the ground. I wrote and shared about my journey, but wasn’t able to build the community online.
But what did happen was that I am building a community on the island with a lot of likeminded women.
Today I realised:
Sometimes the longing you have unfolds in an unexpected way.
Honesty above all
But I have to be honest with you… This month has made me realise that I am in a period of my life where nothing is certain in terms of my energy level and how I feel. I don’t know if this is just January or if it is the period of my life, but I have a lot of energy dips, I am coping with heavy periods and experience days with a lot of PMS symptons…
That’s why I have decided to take a break from writing this blog. This weekend I realised that besides writing I want to be out in nature, connecting with real life people and.
I believe in a world where love, peace and simplicity reside. I want to create a place where I can live a simple life, where I can connect with others on a deeper level, talking about the things that truly matter to me. I am on a path of healing myself, in a way that no one in my family has done before. I am a way shower, a light worker, a healer, a teacher, a woman. And I want to truly connect from a place of love and light. But in order to do so, I have to change the way I am living right now.
I don’t know when or if I will return, but for now I am saying goodbye. I will still be on Instagram and LinkedIn and blogging on my own website.
It was a pleasure writing for you these last two years!
Love, Irene
Shine your light
to make the world a brighter place!
See you in real life!