Today we are celebrating one year since we arrived in California from New York! It seems like just yesterday we pulled up to our new home in the moving truck, tired from a long, teary-eyed adventure across the country. Since much of the last year feels like a blur and a whirlwind, I haven’t taken much time to reflect on this huge life shift, so what better time than now?

The decision to uproot our life in New York, leaving our family and all that we had built together over nearly 10 years, wasn’t one that was brewing in all that time. It started as a pipe dream just two years prior, something my husband Mark and I lustfully talked about in a very dreamy way – “wouldn’t it be amazing if we just up and moved to California” or “one day we need to live in California”. One day we decided to stop merely dreaming and started taking the actions necessary to actually make it happen. Within a year of that decision we had sold our house, we said our goodbyes and we hit the road for the west coast.

So much has happened in this first year of living somewhere new, we have both accomplished new and major things, we have had our struggles finding our way in a new place, we’ve seen relationships change and new ones flourish and grow, but through it all – we have always had our dreams and each other.

Listening to your Inner Voice

The most important thing I have taken from this major life shift, is that the biggest dreams sometime require the biggest changes, some of which may not pleasant. Part of allowing your dreams to come to fruition, is taking the time listen to your inner voice, to realize that your unique path isn’t supposed to or going to, be the same as anyone else’s. Most of all – you need to realize what is holding you back from that dream and with that, you will likely be forced to look your biggest fears straight in the face. Read the rest of this entry »