I’ve been on the adventure of a lifetime. Really, I could say that about this entire human experience. It’s all an adventure, when we’re enjoying it or when we’re learning from it. We came here for all of it, the highs, the lows and the in betweens. There is order to all of it. Growth, lessons and things we have to balance out from the past, it’s all here for us. It was all created by us, even if we do not remember the roots for our lived experience.
In about June of 2025, I was listening to an incredible book, a recount of one man’s experience of living with an Aboriginal group, the Goolarabooloo, in the Rubibi (Broome) area of Western Australia. I listened on my commutes to work. I listened in solitude as I was closing the dairy section at the store where I was working. I knew I needed to get back to Broome after having first traveled there in June 2018. The desire sprung from Aboriginal knowledge that when I heard it resonated deep to my core. I knew I needed to follow my intuition, or as the Aboriginal people call it, my true feeling.
I didn’t plan the trip. I didn’t think about it and look up the best times to visit. I didn’t know anyone there. I had a vision to travel there. That was the beginning of my creation. My true feeling to go to a place and the trust that it would line up in the best timing. I told my Spirit what I wanted and I let it go. I continued living my life, and clearing anything that came up as an obstacle in my path.
In July, one night I came home to a letter from my landlord under my door. She was wanting to line things up early for the year lease I had for my apartment that didn’t end until October 31st. When I felt into signing it, I got a full body NO. My time frame for travel was becoming more clear. I began to clear material things out of my life, first mentally, then physically. I had moments of sadness as I contemplated being away from my family and all of the littles that I love, rehoming my plants, and leaving the quiet art sanctuary I had created in a tree-lined part of the city. But I had a deeper knowing that it was more important to follow my feeling and go after my dreams than it was to stay. So I sold and gave away most everything, including my car. I quit my job. I sold my car. And I trusted the process. I trusted that my true feeling would land me in the life for which I had long been asking.
As each step appeared, I took the action it required of me. There was no staircase, no certain outcome. Just feeling. I have long wanted to travel the world. I knew I needed to start by returning to Australia. I love Australia so much. I have learned so much about myself there. I have made some really good friends there. I have reconnected with parts of myself that were needed to get me to the person I am today.
When I started on this path, I saw Australia and had ideas of places I would go after. Nothing was set. No plan was made. In following my true feeling, I can no longer live in the future. I am here right now, which requires me to relinquish control and certainty, which are illusions anyway. None of us are guaranteed more than this moment. I have the intention to live in alignment with my Spirit and to follow my true feeling about everything. I had a vision for my life when this adventure began, but now the details have morphed and changed enough that I have had to reevaluate it all. There are big themes of what I want, but details are now extra blurry.
In following my true feeling, I flew to an island of Hawaii I had never been to before. I took a leap and landed here and have been trusting that everything is aligning for me here. My first week here has been magical in so many ways. I have met people with really beautiful hearts here. I have met a man who has experienced a collection of some of the same things I have in this life which was mind bending in the best way. I feel like I am where I am meant to be for now. Since arriving, I have also met other who followed their true feeling to this same place. In all these years of inner work, I have heard that we will all get pulled to the place and people we are meant to be with, but I haven’t had much physical proof of that as I’ve had since embarking on this journey. A big key to that has been following my true feeling which has involved going to places I feel called to go to, talking to people I feel called to talk to and doing things I feel called to do. Life can really be that simple. It’s when we resist, when we don’t follow our feelings, when we stay in situations that don’t feel aligned anymore that we don’t line up with the people and places that would be a better fit for us. I’m seeing that a lot more clearly these days. I’m observing what happens when I move through the world open and ready to talk and interact with the people around me and the kinds of experiences and connections that spring forward from that way of BEing. The seeming magic that happens when I talk to a woman in the store and find out that she also followed her true feeling here and has been having so many amazing experiences too. We don’t find the others living this way by staying where we have always been and doing what we have always done. I would not be in Hawaii right now if I stayed rigid to my original vision. I have changed a lot since my flight to Australia on November 1st and so my path and vision have also changed.
I don’t know where I am going, but I know that it’s a path paved in true feeling and alignment with my own Spirit, so I expect it to be even better than I can imagine. The seemingly “magical” things that happen aren’t actually magic at all. They’re just the things that naturally happen when we follow our true feeling. We all have a Spirit, therefore we all have the same power to create. You just have to be willing to give up what you know in order to create the life of your dreams. At the end of this life, we will only have ourselves to answer to. Are you living life on your terms or someone else’s?