Think back on your most memorable road trip.
I kept my word.
I’ve been to a few amazing places in the world, although I’m far from well traveled. I started with a school cruise when I was 13, then I went to Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Paris, Sweden, Eire, Sedona Arizona, and Florida. I loved every single place but Italy and Florida hold a special energy for me. In both places I relax.
An emotional journey
I’ve spoken about my American uncle Joe before, and how I missed seeing him before he died, because our elderly cat suddenly went into his final illness and we couldn’t leave him. He died the day we would have got back.
That cat and his sister saved my sanity if not my life, and I owed him everything. I just had to be there. Fortunately Joe loved cats and understood. He had 17 at one time, all rescues, and named them after friends. Debbie was named after me because she had one green eye and one blue eye, so matched me for being unusual. I was apparently the only child Joe ever liked.
When I met his brother he said “finally I meet the miracle!”
As I’ve said, even though Joe had been dead for years, I still kept my word to my uncle, found his house, at least stood outside, and had a meal at a restaurant in St Petersburg.
The journey
The thing about my journeys abroad is that I’ve discovered I’m not really English. No surprise that a soul that has had many lifetimes can feel comfortable in many places.
In the UK it’s London, that’s my home here. in America so far it’s Florida. In Sweden it’s a town called Gavle. In France I love Paris but I don’t belong there. In Switzerland it was Lake Garda, I didn’t resonate with New Zealand at a soul level, but I also didn’t explore fully, it was a meet the family visit.
I love Eire. But in Italy I was comfortable everywhere. I had severe acute anxiety at the time, I went with a toxic ex and his lovely parents (the tension between them though!) and yet I was completely relaxed. Nothing touched me.
Inward and onward
With any journey it’s not just what you see, how magnificent it is, it’s how it touches you within. How it affects you. How it changes you. In all but one country I discovered that I could be happy and relaxed.
One of the great things you can do is to record times when you’ve felt truly amazing in a journal, and if you’re going through a rough patch, remind yourself of those times and take yourself back in your mind.
On that inward journey you can reconnect with the good feelings, and that will help you to move forward from the difficult place.
Any good memory will do.
It’s the journey we take inwards that makes the biggest difference to what happens in our world.
I know I’m right – Amos says so, and he’s proved it. 🤣😍🤣
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 