Wow 20 years ago today I left Cape Town to explore new shores, meet new people, experience a different lifestyle, travel more freely to beautiful places and learn and experience more through working and living abroad

I look back at that pivotal moment when I decided that Cape Town would no longer be my place of residence. I just had this deep knowing that I couldn’t explain to anyone, but I just knew I had to move and leave the place I was born in, grew up in, had family in to follow my own path. I recall the painful good-byes to those nearest and dearest to me. This was up there in one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.  

But wow what a ride this has been!!!!!

Wow, how I have grown and changed into this well rounded, strong, thoughtful, emotional, radiant, light, resilient, open, dynamic, kind, eager, willing to try new things, sensitive, gentle, loving being that I am.

I have embraced so much more of who I am and what I have to share in this big beautiful world  

I have learnt to love myself fully, my quirky ways, my imperfections, everything that makes me; me and have compassion for myself

I have learnt and embraced vulnerability as a strength, not as a weakness

I know and trust my beautiful deep connection to my inner-self that I have cultivated

I am owning more and more that my voice and truth has nuggets of gold for the right individuals who need to hear it

I am reminded of the beautiful lifestyle I had in Cape Town and found my own way of incorporating that into my life in London

I am following my own path and not that of others

I have taken ownership of my life and the life I want to lead

I have accepted and own that I love being different and unique and that there can only be one ME in the world…So love being me

I have overcome the need for perfectionism and I have embraced progression instead

I have embraced failure and love experiencing learning

I love being pushed and getting uncomfortable with and embracing the new and changing so I can keep growing as an individual

I am open to and embracing support in all areas of my life and I have given up the batten of Going It Alone and being a Lone Ranger

I have embraced and love that there is strength in community and sisterhood

I love and want us all to thrive together for there is enough for every one of everything

I am evolving as a woman, an entrepreneur and I know that at present I am birthing something new and this is so exciting, nerve-wracking and scary at the same time and I love it

I feel deeply and this is a beautiful gift that I only started to embrace in the last 5 years

And I know that to feel deeply is to be alive and open….

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