It’s been a minute since I’ve had the words.

I’m still in it, but I see more now, what its actually going to take to build my life here.

We’ve just completed our second rental move ahead of our property build, now facing further delay. Moving from Scotland to the island with a toddler and a dog, while running a business, asked a lot. To uproot us all over again into another temporary casa has been both a relief, after enduring some challenging times in our first finca, and a further test, calling for yet another layer of acceptance in this transient season.

What I keep returning to is how different twenty years of visiting the island for beautiful breaks is from the experience of making somewhere your home. Finding the balance right now isn’t easy, but the backdrop of beauty, everything I’ve always loved about this sacred place, waits without concern for us to catch up, as we navigate the practical demands that only Spain seems to deliver with such abundance and flair!

There have been some incredible experiences, and also very real moments of isolation. And yet, it only deepens my connection to the life I once dreamed of and am now shaping in real time. I can feel it more clearly because of both.

I’m managing things I never would have believed I was capable of 12 months ago. When there is no choice, you get on and do. It’s been eye-opening to see how much I had imprinted on myself about what felt like “impossible.”

My new neighbour speaks no English, and yet has adopted us with regular food parcels and a kind of amused exasperation in her corrections of my beginner’s Spanish, which she is kindly helping me improve. I feel humbled by it. In truth, the island has supported me in more ways than I could have expected since I arrived, offering the encouragement I needed as I begin my life again at 47.

Community requires vulnerability. For me, having lived independently for so many years, and content in my own company, this chapter is asking something different. It reminds me that if we want true connection, we have to meet each other with openness.

We can’t say we want closeness or a sense of village, and then resist what comes with it. It asks for tolerance, for compassion, for the ability to see beyond projections placed at our door. It asks us to recognise our own responses within interactions, and to meet them with awareness rather than withdrawal, or boundaries built so high they keep everything out.

There is a balance here. And if we are to create the kind of future we want for ourselves and those we love, we have to show up in ways that allow for honesty, for resolution, for staying present when it would be easier to step away. Everyone has lived something. Everyone carries an imprint.

Dreams are here to be realised, but they arrive with a journey of their own. We can’t skip the parts that test us most. They are often what make the experience richer, deeper, and ultimately life-changing.

My business is reshaping itself. I’m behind where I thought I would be at this point, because of the reality of moving and taking care of my family. And yet, so much is shifting in real time, it wouldn’t have made sense for it to come together any sooner.

Do you ever feel more alive than when everything once felt predictable, and now nothing is?
What does it actually feel like to feel this alive?
And can you stay with that, even here?

This is what I am sitting with as everything I thought I knew about myself is being redefined.
These are my Soul Diaries.
And this is my Golden Chapter.

Until next time,

Keep Rising in Love

Romy

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