My Life Choices

Looking back over my life, I've realised that I've never sought oit an easy life, not in the sense of comfort and convenience. From a very young age, I realised that life is difficult, it's challenging and there is no avoiding it. Having lots of things isn't going to make life easier. Trying to fight the natural rhythm of life, will eventually begin to take it's toll. But if you surrender to life,really connect with it, it helps prepare you for what is instore for you. For all our different rites of passage, that are essential for growth.

Connect with all the elements you need in order to live. Connect with the seasons. Understand the impact your life has on the earth and begin to take responsibility for it. These are things that are very important to me and are why I live the way that I do.

Ever since I was a child, I have felt a strong connection with nature and a strong desire to maintain and help that connection grow. To live a more natural life, in every sense of the word. Finding my medicine amongst nature, as well as well as fueling my creativity.

I find my joy in the simple things of life. Simple but oh so nurturing and nourishing. For sure there are some things that I desire, things that have made my life easier. But it is not things, that make me happy, that fulfill me. It's the wonderful relationships I have with the many beings on this earth. Its the experiences that I have had. That is what I focus on gathering.

At the end of the day, we don't really need that much to survive. Our lives do not need to have a huge impact on the natural environment. Not when we strive to live in harmony with it. So how could I achieve that, or at least work my way towards it. To live my life as sustainable as I can. Taking futo ll responsibility for my life, living as free as I can.

When I left home, I moved to London
to study. Staying in nurses residence, then in shared houses for a while. Working and traveling, exploring the different ways in which other people lived. Which ended with me living in a tiny home.
My first was a Toyota Hiace van in Australia in my late twenties. Then a bus and now for the last 10 plus years in my housetruck.

When I became a mum, I knew that I wanted my girls to grow up surrounded by nature. Spending their time outdoors, being wild and free. Connected to nature. Having an appreciation for the simple things in life. Growing up, very much aware of their needs and how best to meet them. Growing up naturally.

This is my response to the latest question from the Minimalist Community, asking is to share what Sparked our Minimalist Journey. The things that influenced us. Be it people, the media. For me, it was nature, my love for it and my desire to be in service to the earth. My true home.