It has been a hectic few weeks. Art and movement brings me t..

It has been a hectic few weeks. Art and movement brings me therapy, healing and regulation for when I’m feeling overwhelmed. This year has been so full and I've learned so much about myself. Learning a new culture. Rehabilitation from an injury that happened in everyday life and having to relearn my handstands, presses & deeper backbends. Spending more time with mum and dad and caring as they are in their 70s. Meeting and building new connections for family, friendships and work related project’s and so on. Learning my daughter as she grows and changes and needing to adapt as a parent and also transitioning my work again. Right now I’m in the process of relocating back to Switzerland at the end of this month. It’s where my daughter feels home and we finally have an opportunity to go back. We moved because Covid closed our work opportunities there. It has been a hard year and a half finding a new work home and now we are looking forward to going back to Switzerland and Europe where we love nature. It will be a little chilly. Changing countries is incredibly hard. Language, new systems of insurance and taxes and schools. But we will get there. I will miss being closer to Australia and will miss having family nearby, but as a mum making my daughter happy is important and this feels like home to her. I’m a little shaky right now. I’ve just been sitting and typing this at a cafe. Bangkok is unusually smoggy and hot at the moment. My daughter is doing gymnastics. We have a lot of cockroaches here and I got 3 cockroaches up my skirt, just sitting trying to have a drink and type this. What a way to start Saturday. I just finshed my training. Sat down to work at a cafe and end up doing jumps and shakes for cockraoch shaking out. of my skirt. Now anytime I feel something touch me I jump thinking it is a cockroach lol. I must have looked like a complete fool jumping around shaking them out. That’s real life for you in Bangkok. I’m not going to miss these bugger. Time to go home and shower. The thing about traveling is that you get to experience different worlds on the earth and realise nothing is normal. Everything is just human experience and you have some preferred and some non preferred. I’m realizing more and more also how important mind set is and we can choose it. All by our habits we create to help us handle ourselves in life and also by what we focus on. The biggest lesson I’ve learned this year is that you save/rely on yourself and others support is important too but not guaranteed and cannot always be relied upon. This year I was going to do a retreat and also online yoga teaching site, clothed with a friend. They pulled out and left me losing money I’d already invested. No apologies just I have to look after myself conversation and find work here because I can’t afford to do it. It was a hard reality check seeing someone I count on not be reliable or recognise the impact their decisions had on me. I had to learn that this is part of life, people only think about themselves in the long term, as we have only our life and cannot see our impact on others always as we look after ourselves. So I’m seeing it’s important that we learn to always rely on ourselves first. Things will happen out of our control and we have to be able to pick ourselves up. Because no amount of blaming the world or others will help us. Challenges are not there to stop us but to build us. Well I better get on with my day. Rhys thoughts for this day. Happy weekend xo