Do you have travel memories of certain times in your life and places that had a profound effect on your life? 🌏
This morning, I came across this memory from 18 July 2018, which had me looking back on how my life has changed over the years.
The Isle of Skye, in Scotland has always been a healing place for me, from the first time I visited it in 2002 during my Haggis Backpackers tour whilst nursing a broken heart and feeling like my whole world had crumbled around me
Over the years, I visited it many times with the red cullins and ‘old man of storr’ calling me to soak in their beauty
Fast forward to this trip in 2018, where I felt life had come full circle from my first trip in 2002 as I faced the breakdown of my marriage and questioning where my life was taking me. In photos, you see me smiling on the outside, but it was a forced smile whilst I was falling apart on the inside.
It was by the beautiful and serene fairy pools that I came to the realisation that some things are just not meant to be, and I had a choice in life to continue living a ‘half life’ of not being appreciated, respected and not following my passions, or to have the courage to change the narrative.
I chose to have the courage to create a different, unknown path to my life. It has taken me 6 years to heal, and I look back and reflect on how my life has changed for the better.
Over the last 6 years, I have felt broken, burnt out through to discovering my purpose, rebuilding my life, and embracing the future with an open hand, learning to trust again.
One day I will return to embrace the beauty of the Isle of Skye with outstretched arms, but that time is not just yet 🙏
Jenn Barfield - Holistic Career Development Coaching 