Reflecting on my remote work journey, I was wondering where it all started. I find myself transported back to my first experience in a co-living space in Medellin, Colombia, circa September 2022. At that time, instead of working I was on a sabbatical, exploring the joys of Latin America and the Spanish language as well as slowly getting started on my mental health blog. During this experience, I met other remote workers and digital nomads in this beautiful, vibrant city, and a dream I had felt in the back of my mind started to come more and more into shape: I wanted to be able to work fully remotely, from anywhere, sharing houses with other like-minded individuals that are living the same lifestyle. I wanted to sit and work in cute cafes or on…
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Read on about my honest experience of an Ayahuasca Retreat in Colombia. Just be aware – this won’t be the usual happy ending story with this plant medicine that you’ve likely come across before. What is Ayahuasca? This depends very much on who you ask. On the one hand, a shaman or healer will tell you that it’s a healing plant, retrieved from specific trees found in the Amazon in South America. More specifically, a plant with many healing properties for the mind and body. Ayahuasca is for example said to be able to heal trauma from the past. On the other hand, a scientist might categorize Ayahuasca as a psychedelic drug. Most people who have tried it would probably agree that drinking this plant offered them the chance to enter a different dimension…
Or: does traveling mean running away? An opinion piece for those who judge themselves for taking a travel break from life and are scared of doing so because of their mental health struggles ‘We don’t travel to escape life, but for life not to escape us.’ As I am sitting on the train I am starting to think about traveling, now, post-covid where we finally can move around freely again. What is it that makes me crave so much for it? I wonder. An escape from ‘real’ life and routine? Am I running away from ‘real life’? From my perspective, most of us don’t realize that this ‘real life’ doesn’t exist outside of a fixed mindset that has been created and passed onto us by society. ‘Real life with a real job’ is merely…