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The ache for home

Posted on by RhapsodyBoheme

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

~Maya Angelou

I have lived torn between two countries for most of my life and it’s not easy. You always experience some kind of homesick, and it’s hard to answer where and what you call home. Mom always said “well you wanted it that way”, and it is what she believed since I was the one who left, but I know it’s not true and I couldn’t have imagined how hard one decision would spread over the term of a lifetime.

Home is where the heart is they say, and home can be anywhere, although you never forget where you came from and where your roots run deep. It’s understandable and yet sad to me that the EU has closed its borders to people coming from the US. I’m sure somehow I probably could get in being a German Citizen and having a house there, but it would be under strict guidelines and quarantine I’m sure. All understandable and yet for the first time it feels as if I can’t return to the place of my roots, home. For now at least.

In the end I believe that this quote is all encompassing and home truly is where you are accepted as you are and your heart finds peace. Where you are understood and not questioned. Home is a place where you can be and sometimes if you are lucky, a place where your tribe and likeminded people live. People you have something in common with, people who can value you and where you can contribute.

May we all have such a place, even if it is in more than one home. 🙏🏼

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We are the co-creators of our life and the time is now. More than ever are we needed to support Mother Earth and each other. Together we discover and explore our unique gifts in times of strengths, in times we lean on each other, and in times when we learn from each other. This blog started as an outlet and what I ultimately called my “Warriors Journey.” It was a way to document the ups and downs of my life, sharing my hardships as well as my successes. It showcased the struggles, but more important the ways of how to overcome them. Although we are warriors each and every day, I realized that having to be a warrior, comes from a place of pain. I decided to rename this blog, and “Phoenix Rising” now stands for the story of overcoming such a painful place. My motivation for this blog hasn’t changed and I hope to share inspiration and hope, to create a sense of belonging, a space of being heard, and connecting with like minded beings who instill a sense of oneness. We are never alone, and we are unstoppable in the pursuit of what sets our soul on fire. Who I am in a nutshell... 
I am an energy healer and Reiki Master. I am surviving a chronic disease that I’ve sent into remission three times since my initial bout, 15 years ago. I continuously challenge the status quo and by doing so I change my stars. I am a believer that anything is possible. I am a hopeless romantic and I believe that true love exists on various levels. I am an optimist that will always see the glass as half full. I am a dreamer, believing in endless possibilities. Not even the sky is the limit. I have jumped off of the hamster wheel, and I am writing a new chapter. I am chasing my Nirvana to support my most authentic self. This is my story, I am that Phoenix and I am rising from the ashes. Namaste 🙏🏼💙🦋

10 thoughts on “The ache for home”

  1. I used to live out in the Australian bush. Grew up there in fact. And the only place I ever felt that peace was when I was out in it. Nature all around, the energy was one of acceptance. It never asked anything of me but to be myself…so I opened to it and always connected, to such a degree that most animals and birds accepted me and would allow me to get quite close.
    Mind you, the occasional ‘splat’ was a bit close but hey, they were just being themselves too. Maybe that’s their way of saying I was special too 😀 ❤️ 🙏🏽 🦋

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    1. Besides the occasional splat, you described the feeling wonderfully and it truly is what it’s all about. And I’m sure it was there way of telling you how special you are. Mom always said that if an animal splats in you it is suppose to bring good luck. So consider yourself fortunate they picked you to bestow such honor upon. 😉❤️

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      1. Hear, hear!!! Then they must have accepted all of me to bestow such an honor. And the luck was in being able to find that inner truth, the love and happiness we always seek 😀 ❤️ 🙏🏽 🦋

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  2. I also live in two countries and visit other places but I feel I could call Berlin home. Regardless of where I am, after two weeks of being there, am longing to come back to the countryside of Berlin. Am so glad I was home before the shutdown. I wonder how it would have been if I wasn’t in Berlin…. I haven’t thought about this. Awwww, thank you for sharing.

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