Into The West
The Journey Continues
“To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
Bernadette Devlin
Here is the audio version of this article.
Westwards Into the wild, my soul whispers, go! Westwards where the clouds kiss the mountaintops Westwards where the herons soar across the sky passing the heavy grey that cloaks the croagh Westwards where the song of the wild mingles with the raw abundant scenery Take a breath have a rest and then travel towards the west Sadhbh Adamea
Swept by Storm, Shaped by Surrender
It’s been a wild year. My hair is tousled from the storms that stripped away every single plan, every unnecessary item, every limiting belief. Now I feel like naked baby Jesus, as the bells of new beginnings are heralding a new year. Being an entrepreneur is not a smooth highway, it is a journey through long and windy roads, a discovery of dead-end after dead-end, a wild ride up to the highest mountains and into the lowest valleys. When our soul reclaims the driver’s seat, we exchange the comfortable coach of familiarity with a wild ride of responsibility. As we have taken over the steering wheel, we can’t sit back and enjoy the scenery, we need focus, a clear view and a well-maintained vehicle. This unique ride takes us to the most wonderful places that no coach can ever reach. Places that are not made for a quick visit. Places that only hold space for a few brave souls. Places that are not common tourist spots and that take your breath away on many levels.
No, it was not a smooth, flowing year. However, the lessons I learned were beyond valuable. The people I met were beyond amazing. The places I saw were beyond breath-taking. No matter how far fear took me from my path, Love always brought me home.
Driving with the Divine
2024 felt to me like a year-long driving lesson. There were moments of joy and satisfaction when I managed to park the car sideways. Yet, every traffic situation felt like a big challenge. My eyes were glued to the road and my hands barely left the steering wheel, always trying to control the speed and direction while having the feeling of driving in circles. There was no destination; I just drove around for practice. All I practiced was to turn the car off and on, to find the gear and break and follow the signs. Occasionally I hit a dead end and would then learn to drive backwards. Spirit is a patient driving teacher, but fear gripped me often. My neck is still sore from the constant stop and go, the jerking and the push and pull of fear and Love. However, looking back, there were lots of moments where life flowed well. My book writing process was painful but magical, and I am so grateful to everyone who purchased it. The bliss is still limitless (pun intended)! Thank you so much for your support!
Sacred Success
What is success? For me, success is when I can say that I have grown - and oh boy, did I grow. I get better and better at bouncing back from victim mode. I know myself even deeper now. I have become more patient, more resilient. I feel exhausted and in desperate need of some rest that I struggle to allow myself to have, but I also feel very happy and content with myself. This year’s lesson was all about receiving. I end this year in utter gratitude and awe. The amount of kindness and generosity that I’ve experienced this year still blows me away. Thank you to everyone that contributed to my journey here, who helped me on my way. Whether you commented or shared my posts, read my articles, purchased my offers, sent me blessings, supported me financially, gifted me something, spread the word or simply thought about me, it all means so much to me and made a huge difference! Sometimes I need to pinch myself to realise that I made my dreams come true and live in Ireland now. It still feels a bit surreal. However, nothing in life is fixed, so the wheels of change keep turning, taking me further into the spiral of growth. Life has continuously been calling me westwards, and so I will move to the beautiful, wild West of Ireland soon.
“Go West, life is peaceful there.”
Pet Shop Boys
It is funny how quickly we get attached to things, people and places. I have lived in the heart of Ireland now for almost a year. Compared to leaving Germany, I don’t leave much behind, yet I realise how much my ego is already asking to keep the familiar structures, even if it feels like it is the right thing to close this chapter. I deeply feel in my heart that it is time to move on. However, I have made such beautiful connections here and the familiar feelings are asking me to stay a little longer. Even if we choose to explore new territories, change comes with grief and this time I am fully aware of it. I will give it all the room it needs to move through me. I will let the darkness embrace me in the knowledge that the light is inevitably taking over again.
In the end, we need to ask ourselves one question:
“Will you settle for what you know,
or do you dare to explore and grow?”
Sadhbh Adamea
Our Wild Nature
It takes practice to be comfortable with the inevitable chaos that surrounds us when we embark on new adventures. Still, our souls are wild by nature. We are not meant to be pressed in form or restrict our roots from growing, intertwining with fellow travellers until they reach the core of the earth. Here they soak in the nourishment of Gaia, the warm, red and velvet energy of our Great Mother. And it is this deep connection, this groundedness in nature, that helps us grow so tall that we can sway with the wind of the heavens.
Ireland I know this place deep beyond my bones in the heart of the green and ancient stones my soul wanders this strange journey of Love I am right here where I belong between the grass underneath my naked feet and the melting clouds in the heaven above a traveler exploring not lost advocating a life of Love at all cost In the dance of rough and gentle winds I swirl in the spiral of growth feeling every part of me from my crown to my toes tuned into the sacred energy I am right here I am Love I am free Sadhbh Adamea
If you feel like the dark is swallowing you these days, please feel free to reach out. Let’s keep our flames burning. We all need each other.
New Year, New Offers
The New Year brings not only the change of a new home, it also brings along a new collaboration. I am so honoured to announce that I will be leading creative and playful breathing practice sessions for families within the sacred container of the company “Wild Minnow”. Tonia and Jessica have created a beautiful container for a variety of practitioners who are devoted to enhancing the wellbeing and nourishment of the individual as well as in workplaces. If you want to take advantage of their beautiful offer to explore the January membership for free, all you need to do is sign up on their site, no credit card information required. Daily, weekly and monthly offers around breathwork, somatic practices, cacao ceremonies, moon gatherings - it’s all included.
You can find out more about the offer on www.wildminnow.com or simply head over to my website, it is linked there and also shows more details about my offers within Wild Minnow.
Have a wonderful New Year’s celebration!
Happy New Year to you all!
May you be healthy!
May you be happy!
May you be safe!
May you live abundantly!
May you open your heArt and let Love in!
Lots of Love,
Sadhbh (Nicole)
Woah, lovely photos - so green - and the beckoning wild. 'Going West' took me to Cornwall for 10 years by the sea, and now in Portugal; I feel comfortable 'out of it' and away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Thank you for the newsletter round-up of 2024; a challenging year indeed. But a spirited and precious one too I can see.
The opening lines of the poem ("I know this place / deep / beyond my bones / in the heart / of the green / and ancient stones") capture something very important about connection of soul with physical location - from wilderness to wilderness we seem to wander until our bones are in tune with the land - and we find a home for where we don't have to 'explain ourselves'. All the best for 2025, Josh & Veronika.
What a lovely and poetic review of a powerful year of growing...
I can totally relate. My inner voice called me westwards in 1995. So I landed in West Penwith, the most western peninsula of England, where St. Eia is said to have landed in the 5th or 6th c. sailing across the Atlantic from Ireland in a Coracle. It's been a wild ride for me too. I landed with nothing and received so much more than I could have ever imagined or wished for.
(3 years after my landing on the wild western coast, Josh arrived and stayed)
Every year in the autumn we attended the Celtic festival of Cornwall, which is held in Perranporth (about half an hour north from where we lived), and where the Celtic nations gather from Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Isle of Man, Cornwall, and of course Ireland, to make music and dance five days.
From Cornwall we moved to the western part of the Iberian peninsula, about an hours drive inland from the Atlantic (the constant wind got into our bones after 10/13 years). Although physically settled in this southern Celtic landscape which has been our home for the past 16 years, the inner journey continues. It still feels like a wild ride...
One cycle has ended, the new one has just begun.
Very best wishes for a safe and breathtaking ride through 2025 from on wild rider to another. Let's never stop growing xx