And suddenly it’s time for a whole new adventure.

We bought a house, and honestly it’s taken a minute to unpack and start to feel settled. Today is the first day that it actually feels like home and can be the foundation of the creative space where this blog and news business will take place.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve traveled for so long and not had a real place to call home, or the exhaustion of packing and unpacking, but I have felt tired, drained and not myself at all.

I wasn’t very grateful at first. Until I took a moment to reflect on how far I have come, and how only 3 short years ago this life was my dream.

The partner, our house, building an office and art studio in our home.

I longed for this.

I had spent so many nights wondering why life happened the way it did, why this dream and vision I had for my life always felt like such a struggle and so far out of my grasp.

And people always told me it would make sense one day, that I would look back and understand why everything had to happen the way that it did, to get me here.

And I do.

I get it now.

I get that everything along the way shaped me in to this version of me. The person I am today, the woman I get to be and the woman I have to work on being too.

I think if I had met Brandon before, we wouldn’t have wanted each other, as the versions of us we were in the past.

We met at a time that made sense. And while all relationships take work - and my melt down this weekend after burning myself out with the move shows - if you work on it, it works.

And now here we are, opening the doors of our first home, the stepping stone to the rest of our lives, wondering what will come next.

And for the first time in my life I don’t have the answers, and I love that.

I’ve always known the next step or what I am working towards, but right now, I feel like letting the path unfold before me and so open to being wowed by the universe.

So here is to the next chapter, a new level of commitment - to myself, our relationship, my body and my business.

Love always

Ashlie xx