Well today is January 4th 2015- and it’s my last day of my 20’s. Tomorrow begins a new stage of my life. My 30’s. This brings mixed emotions to me today. The 20’s were very FULL ON and full of so much learning, lessons and adventure that I never planned I don’t even know what to expect in my 30’s.

Any regrets? Not one. I have learned from everything that I have done. Thank-fully, I have a guardian angel looking after me, especially through a few irresponsible and unplanned situations that I found myself in.

I am so grateful for so many things in my life. I have been known to others as a old soul, a gentle soul and someone who was very kind…very friendly. Not everyone likes people. I am thankful that I love people. I am not afraid of people or people who are different. I am not afraid to talk to the opposite sex anymore. I do not have fear to talk to someone who lives in a box on the street or someone who lives in a million dollar mansion. Fear is limiting. Yes I am to limited by fear- but over the years I have challenged certain belief systems that I had… I challenged them and I normally found out that what I was thought- simple wasn’t true in my manifestation of life.

Before I went to Brazil some of my friends and family were afraid of me getting kidnapped or raped- and having my organs sold on the black market. My 6 months in Brazil were amazing. I had an open heart and mind, and I went around by myself and I walked home late at night and camped on beaches and travelled with people I just met. I stayed in the houses of people I met through couchsurfing… and I was safe. I made amazing friends and had such nice nights full of laughter, music, food, dance and nature. I learned how to surf, found a job, starting renting a very nice apartment… it was a pretty cool experience. After Brazil I moved on to Argentina and had christmas there and moved on to Bolivia to celebrate New Years in La Paz and my birthday on the Isla de Sol, Lago Titicaca. I travelled by myself and with friends I met on the road…I took a plane to Colombia and waited for the arrival of a friend to begin a month of traveling. We did a 5 day hike through the Jungle to the ruins of Ciudad Peridad. We hiked and camped in Tayrona National Park, went dancing in Cartegena and took a boat from Cartegena to Panama…spending a few days at the San Blas Islands. We travelled up into Costa Rica were we separated paths and I met my family in Costa Rica. After my vacation with my family I decided I wanted to try and learn Spanish…so only after a week in Nicaragua I travelled to Guatemala and a special town named, San Pedro where I found good priced Spanish lessons. I stayed there for a month or so- then a Scotish girl I met there and I travelled the rest of Guatemala where we had amazing experiences. We also travelled through Belize and Honduras to Utila to take our Padi Scuba Certification and we through the south of Mexico by chicken bus to Cancun to fly to Canada to meet my family and to begin picking Cherries in British Colombia. We spent a few more months living out of our tents on the beautiful orchards on B.C. First campsite was right by a river and the second was up in the mountains. I continued working at the Bar when I got home and continuing on with a few Digital projects. I picked up contracts with Boundary Dam, saving my money to again be able to go and travel for an extended period of time. Then I met my current love. I went to Mexico and then he came to Canada and we celebrated New Years and my birthday together in Paris and Spain… then I went to India…3 months later I made my move to Mexico-  after some months I had a feeling I really needed to continue my Yoga education in India so I went back for 3 more months. Now I have been in Mexico for a year… with a few little trips to the states and to visit my friends and family in B.C… time goes so quickly. I wanted to be an English teacher one more time- and I enjoyed my experience, but realize that although I am a good teacher and love having students, my passion is in health and happiness, not language. Some teachers have a passion for language- I wish I did- but my passion is nature and holistic health.

When I get back to Mexico in a few weeks I will be writing my mid-term to become an Ayurvedic Health Educator, and I will begin working along side a Practioner in Tulum to begin giving certain Ayurveda therapies within their Holistic community. It’s a beautiful place- with a great, open and easy vibration… full of potential.  I am going to continue my studies to become an Ayurvedic Practioner… I am beginning to give classes of Yoga.

My 20’s began after traveling for 10 months in New Zealand and visiting Australia and Fiji. I did many different jobs in New Zealand from working as a Porter for the Whiskey Bar, on Ponsonby Road in Auckland, to selling stuff out of a bag in Wellington, to picking fruit and pruning vines in the South Island. I applied for College for something that I new I loved- Making Videos… I was accepted to Vancouver Film school but decided to go to a Digital Media Producer College instead, so I would be more prepared with different computer skills on graduation and be able to work for myself as a continued to travel the world. When I finished my schooling, my first love and I lived in Edmonton for awhile and I began my career in Digital Media. Working as a graphic designer for the Running Room and then later as a Adobe and Microsoft Programs teacher and web site developer for the TTC of the University of Alberta.  When I came back to Estevan I worked independently for a few years while also picking up shifts at the bar for extra cash… I really enjoyed designing things… especially posters. I loved taking photos for different projects and making videos and modules. But I wasn’t completely satisfied with my job. It’s very detail oriented work and very finicky… you need to constantly put a lot of energy and time into little projects- and then all of a sudden it’s done… but depending if your client had the same vision as you- you were creating something you were proud of or not. Also- as far as making websites- in the last 10 years if you were to continue learning all the new ways to make a website- you would have been very busy. In 2007 when I graduated, we weren’t even designing pages for hand held devices and there was less browsers to cross reference then… some people used flash and others didn’t and many people were still using Explorer. But I am happy that I know about these things enough still that I would be able to create a website for myself. Actually probably now, it might be easier to know how to build a website with all the tools and plugins already developed now… but I digress….

So my 20’s started and I was going to school for being a Digital Media Producer- New Age technology  and I am leaving my 20’s a student of Ayurveda… a 5,000 old Science from India. I wanted to travel- I am now not traveling as much as I once would have liked- but I am living in a tropical paradise and everything is still new to me and I have A LOT of exploring to do in the country that I am in before I will feel I am missing out on adventure.

My 20’s started with me dating my first serious boyfriend that I loved and respected but never felt quite like he was the man I should marry… and I am now living with that man. Someone who is very different than me yet understands me and encourages me to grow.

My 20’s started off really enjoying to party and stay up very, very late whenever I had the opportunity- and although I still enjoy partying once in awhile- I now am learning to really appreciate the quiet nights and to have my weekends filled with nature, Yoga and family.

I started my 20s off knowing 3 other countries and now knowing 21 other countries.

I began my 20s thinking that I probably would want to be married and have kids by the time I was 26… and now those years are passed and I am now aiming for 33.

When I was 15 I remember thinking it would be good to get married around 22-25 and then have kids …but that’s before I ever dreamed of traveling. Dreamed of finding such light, here on earth.  It’s before I began on my path of self discovery and knowledge… it’s before I believed that I would ever be able to be a holistic or energy healer. These past years I have became a completely different person by connecting with my soul and recognizing the different between my self (ego) and Self (soul). I’m beginning to understand that just because doing something feels right and is fun- doesn’t mean that it’s the best for you… and just because you can pull it off… can live as procrastinator, make reckless choices, eat bad food, hang out with negative people…. just people you can do all these things and still survive… doesn’t mean that you are surviving to your optimal level. I am beginning to be aware of my emotions and my thoughts, needs and desires… and be able to separate where these thoughts, emotions and desires are coming from.

I began my 20s thinking “okay I want to travel the world…”
Then I began traveling and realize although is so wonderful… being part of a community is very important…then around 26, I started wondering if I would want to get Married? And now 29 and 364 days and realize that I am getting very close to wanting to get married and begin a family. It’s very interesting how it all goes. I still do want to travel to all places in the world and to do non-profit work in other lands.

Well thank-you universe, family and friends for all that you have given my in my last 29 years of life. My wonderful moments and memories. I am looking forward to my future with an open heart and mind to what is in store for me in my next chapters.