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I hope this video brings you a moment of peace and inspires you to slow down daily life this winter just a little with me today.

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My life is quiet right now and so is the rest of the world around me. We have been snowed in with all public transport delayed or cancelled. Not that I wanted to leave the house anyways. I am an introvert and homebody as it is but winter definitely brings out this part of me even more. I have also been feeling so tired and cozy just crafting indoors.
For the sake of my immune system and filming for this video I did however leave the house once! I went on the most magical walk through the forest and over the lake. From where we live we are able to follow the frozen river until we gte to what usually is our beach. Today is nothing but frozen, crunchy snow and ice. It was breathtakingly beautiful.

As I get out into nature every week to film these videos, some of you might be surprised to hear that I do not live in the countryside. I actually still live in the city. Berlin city, the capital of Germany out of all places! And contrary to the feelings I am trying to express in my stories on here, I have been living a rather city life for years now. I wanted to be transparent about this with you because I believe that it is important to be truthful in online spaces. While my greatest wish and plan right now is to move to the Irish countryside in a few months and to find a cottage for rent with a garden and quiet nature surrounding me, I am not there yet.
We live on the very outskirts of the city right now between busy streets and the beautiful landscapes I am showing you all on here. For the first time in my life I have immediate walkable access to rivers, lakes and woods and I have been craving it for a long time. My personal story in short has always been about belonging. To a place and to people. And ever since I graduated high school I moved around countries and cities quite a bit in order to find my place. After years of living in capitals, the nearly painful desire for a nature centered life has been growing month by month until at the end of last year, we decided to finally change things including our jobs and living situation. We quit our rental agreement and are currently preparing for our move back to Ireland.

Something I have learned though in these years of feeling disconnected and out of place has been that while my outward circumstances might not be what i want them to be, I still have a lot of control over my life. This is a message I have been desperately needing to hear in the past years. Time after time I have felt so low comparing my life to others who live in my dream homes and places. Now I see how this sadness had been holding me back from creating what I wanted to create and kept me frozen in place, thinking what I dreamed of was unattainable. I come from a small industrial village and moving into the mountains seemed impossible. I was also chasing a career that depended on being in cities. Always available and ready to network and catch a flight somewhere important.

It’s almost funny now how since I made my decision internally, it feels as though my entire external world has changed already. I feel so much more connected and calm now that I allow myself to follow the seasons, create art every day, make these videos that help me pay attention to nature and most importantly, I now make the time to go into the forest and put myself in the way of beauty.
Yes, the thing I am looking for is a change of scenery and to begin a new, different life but it is also a life that is creative, slower, simpler, more wondrous. And none of those things require a new home or car or job. I can begin to create the life I am searching for right now, right here. By making small changes and implementing new habits, learning new crafts and skills.
I don’t need a garden to be a gardener right now, a windowsill or balcony is a great way to learn. I don’t need a studio to be an artist or a cabin in the mountains to truly enjoy nature. All of what I need, I have. And everything I still work towards will be in reach when the time is right. I choose to hold on to these thoughts.
I would like to think that my daily life in a year from now or in a perfect home or perfect job won’t be all too different from my life between city and country right now.

Sending all my love!


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