This is what we left a few weeks ago. 6 feet of snow and minus 30 degree temperatures. 2nd coldest winter in recorded history. Love the changing seasons, but 40 plus years of it was enough.
Our Transistion from Duluth Minnesota to Playa Del Coco Costa Rica
My husband lost his job in August of 2013. He had worked in upper management for 15 years and we thought this would be his retirement job. Before this, the stress was making him physically ill, he was having chest pains, and an assortment of other issues. He ended up on major pain medication and anti depressants. To say the least...I was NOT happy about this, but, knowing that everyone has to be on their own journey, no matter how much you love them, it has to be. THAT is a tough lesson.
I had been searching for quite sometime before this of somewhere WARM to live. I have Chronic Lyme's and when it flairs up, I am in the shit. I looked at Florida, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, even Australia! Costa Rica kept showing up time after time. I did not even know where it was. Ok Universe! I will check into this! So the story goes.....
Finally we agreed that it would be best for him, myself, and our two daughters to give up the resistance and let the job go. OMG! Then what? Everything we had worked our asses off for would be gone! We have paid it forward our whole lives, even given the shirt off of backs, and I mean in the REAL sense of the terms to people who were in need. There is nothing we have not done for others.
Where was OUR help??? Our family members dropped away, friends that we had for years....it seemed like we were contagious. A very sad and angry time.
We had a choice....sit here and feel sorry for ourselves, which I am sure no one would blame us for, but there was no one left. OR we could pull ourselves up by our boot straps and CREATE a new life. The second option worked! And that is where the Imagination came in!
Bankruptcy was filed, our house is in the process of going back to the bank, and we have been purging material possessions like no other! It is AMAZING how much stuff we hang on too because we think it has some value or meaning....it is just STUFF! Along with the material things, many emotions that have been stuffed deep down inside have surfaced and demanded to be recognized, healed and sent away. NEXT!
There has been many conversations about this process within our little family of four. Both of my girls are Empaths and wonderful healers in their own right. I have learned so much from them. I have been truly blessed that they chose me to be their Mom. I will forever be grateful. We have decided that our work here has been done and it is time to go on a GRAND ADVENTURE!
We will move into our new home April 8th 2014 with 3 suitcases a piece and the clothes on our back. The material world has fallen away and we have never felt so much freedom, excitement and joy! No more robbing Peter to pay Paul. We will be able to live on 1/3 of the income that we had been living on. We will have warmth, fresh organic food, and much much playtime. I am so grateful for this opportunity to spend with my girls before they go off to start their own lives. What a blessing!
So many hard, deep lessons learned is such a short time. The Universe has showed us the endless opportunities that we all have with just a change of a thought. It has shown us that everything is a blessing......
Faith in yourself, loving yourself, and trusting yourself........feed that little spark......let it grow and BE the Lighthouse that needs to be seen......
So the end is a new beginning.....more to come!
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