HAPPY SUNDAY!

I feel like since I’ve been in Seattle, I have spent a lot more time outside, embracing nature.

I think it gives me a good opportunity to reset. To just be in the moment and admire what is around me. I have started going on daily walks/runs. Everyday, when I can, which is mostly at night, I walk and explore. I feel like I am such a beginner with where to go, so I feel like walking somewhere different everyday builds my directional capabilities around the city.

I think it’s also hard, because living in a new city, you don’t exactly know what night life consists of, where the safer routes are to go and overall just travelling around efficiently. I think especially downtown, it gets kinda scary in some parts, and I have a tendency sometimes to be oblivious to that. But anyway, getting out and about has helped me organize my paths around the city.

I went on a hike on Friday. It actually turned out to be four hours. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t a trail that looped, so the two hours I walked one way, I also had to walk back. I guess a unique adventure in itself, it was absolutely beautiful.

I think I’ve been at a little bit of back-and-forth lately. On one side, I love that I am able to go out and do what I want, when I want. And a lot of the time, I walk, or hike, or run. And it is amazing. But on the other hand, I have been missing my people. I know it’s a trade-off. I really do love being able to explore on my own, embrace my nature side, and live freely in that sense. But my people feed into my social battery and we uplift each other always. So it’s definitely still a period of adjustment.

I decided last minute that I am going to visit friends in BC next weekend. I guess in the states, that is our long weekend, which I am still not used to. But anyway, I am completing a solo road trip to the beautiful Kelowna, one of my favourite places, and I couldn’t be more excited. I feel like it will just be a really wholesome weekend and that is all I have been craving at the moment.

I feel like this experience has really been a test for how I can handle my own company, and truly being an independent adult. It’s a hardcore adjustment, but it’s something I have really embraced. I have said it before in some previous blogs, but truly enjoying your own company is a strength. Being able to do things by yourself, and really get something out of it and enjoy your time is challenging but if you can accomplish that, I believe it is a big stepping stone in our growth. This adventure so far has been setting me up for that. I have been working hard at pushing myself to go out and explore, and try and enjoy what’s around me, even if I am by myself. It has given me a lot of perspective. One in which I am really just showing up for myself.

During the school year, I felt as though I was in quite a slump when it came to being there for myself and focusing on my mental health. Although I talk about it all the time, considering I try to keep it consistent my blog, I lose track sometimes of the things that make me truly happy or rather that I know are good for my soul. I think this adventure was something I needed, whether I knew it directly or not. I felt blind-sighted at first. I hadn’t thought about the fact that I was moving across the continent by myself. The anxiety for that didn’t really hit me. But now being here, it has and I’ve had to deal with it while also adjusting to being somewhere new. But slowly over the past couple of weeks, I have grown very appreciative of this opportunity and experience of self-discovery. I have taken it upon myself to set a goal and just try new things and really rediscover what makes me, well me. And what feeds into my joy in life.

I hope you all are having an amazing week.

STAY KIND:)

with love

grace<3