11/10/2024
✨How much can change in 6 years…✨
You may not know this about me but I used to work as a veterinary nurse and own my own farm in North QLD.
In 2015 I bought a 6 acre property with my partner at the time and set to work. It had been neglected by the previous owner and we created pastures, stables and a veggie patch and revitalised the chicken coup and orchard.
I adopted a whole range of animals, from dogs to goats to chickens, ducks, geese and even horses. It was a full house and I loved it.
But in 2018 I embarked on a new journey, attending my Family Constellations Facilitator training in Maleny. It changed my life. It changed how I saw myself and my relationships. It changed who I wanted to be and where I wanted to go with my life.
And just like that, I found myself ending a 6.5 year relationship, rehoming my beautiful animals, selling the farm I had poured my love into and uprooting my life to relocate to the Sunshine Coast.
6 years ago to the day, I arrived on the sunny coast, to a new house and a new job. I only had my car, packed the the rafters with boxes and my favourite futon couch tied to the roof racks. The car was so full my dog actually had to sit on my lap the whole 12 hour drive (not that she minded haha).
At 23, it was one of the scariest things I have ever done in my life. I had next to no social support, no financial backing and to be honest not much to go on other than the little voice inside me telling me that this felt right. I desperately clung to it.
I am so glad I did.
So much has changed since then. My past self would barely recognise me now. The confidence, the self-love, the many beautiful connections in my life, the work I so dearly love. All things that I have created and grown since then.
And all because I refused to ignore that voice inside me. That feeling that told me it was time for something different, that there was more out there for me. That I deserved and craved more from life, more from myself.
I am forever grateful for the farm experience. I treasure the country, the land, the animals and the produce dearly in my heart and memories. But I am so glad I chose change.
It has given me the courage and the confidence to make scary moves many more times since then. Knowing that I have done it before and I can do it again.
It has given me the ability to sit with people at these potent crossroads in their own lives and support them to make their own leaps into a different version of themselves.
What a gift.
Here is to the next 6 years and whatever they might bring 🙌🏼
(For a little throwback: Photo 1+2 = my property; Photo 3 = my miniature doe with her triplets, Photo 4 = freshly milked goat's milk, Photo 5 = doggos, Photo 6 = soursop harvest)