May 7, 2024

Change, authenticity, living life in an endless bouquet of jasmine ✨

Jasmine makes me think of presence and pleasure and sensuality and sweetness and being really, really connected to my surroundings.

It makes me think of Rome.

And reminds me that summer is right around the corner.

I spent ten years of my life living the summers of other people, but not fully getting my own (tour guide life).

I have spent the last four summers making up for lost time. I’ve fallen in love with a life that I could never have dreamed of living, a life full of adventure and Italian daydreams.

A life where I have more free time. A life where I have to remind myself, constantly (still) that I’m doing enough.

A life where I get to give people the opportunity to take the world’s longest and most fulfilling journey: The one back home to yourself.

My work, my purpose, my mission is to love. To help people (mostly women) slooooow way down, stop, smell the flowers, eat the pasta, live without second guessing, laugh, cry, play, move, grow, learn about themselves, retreat from the world.

I want to live life like I’m swimming in a blanket of fresh jasmine blooms.

How do you want to live yours?

So. What’s this have to do with change? With authenticity? When I started posting regularly in 2020, I felt like I had to ‘show up’ on IG. I had to make sure that this was coherent and made sense and didn’t just feel like a slightly manic live journal.

Umm. But here we are. I’m continuing to learn and grow and change and being as authentic on here as possible and even more authentic irl.

Wanna hang with me there (the real life part)? I have retreats coming up and I’m so excited about each of them and I’d love to see you there. That’s all.💛