Letting go, accept and get involved! My review of the year 2023: A year that could have been under the motto:
do everything differently!
And that affects both my private and my professional life.
Because in 2023 everything interwoven and in 2024 I have a lot in mind!
This year I followed the trace of the new beginning and spent a lot of time in Morocco. As a passionate person, I want to explore, taste, touch and practice life in it, add, and to blow up the topics and masks of past times. The old man is no longer used and the new wants to develop. It is interesting to see which people I put on through my newly developed energy field. In preparation for this, it has been the turn of a lot of “self”: self -care, self -love and honor and appreciation for me. From a higher perspective, all this has been learned and the already lived life makes so much sense today and the circle closes!
What did I do in 2022 for 2023?
- Goal 1: Offer desert trips for women to Morocco.
I was able to offer sold -out desert trips for women twice this year. - Goal 2: Spend more time in Morocco
and my blog: fill my Morocco with stories.
I succeeded in spending a lot of time in Morocco and getting to know life and the people there better. - Goal 3: Finally end my construction sites at home.
Tell God about your plans! He just laughs! I still haven't succeeded in this mammoth project.
For this I really enjoyed life in 2023 because the trace of the new beginning followed.
2023: On the trail of life and myself
Design trip for women
In March I realized my first desert trip for women after the Corona period.
I wrote a detailed blog post .
That was a very special experience! It showed again what the nomads always say:
No plan is the best plan! Because everything that was in my imagination should be how something should be, the nature of a better taught me!
And I'm grateful for that. It suits me! One participant said to me: You are such a cool sock and the best desert guide because you can adapt so well!
New beginning: just live life and don't ask as many questions!
For me that was at the top of my agenda: Morocco!
This year I was often in Morocco this year. Both professionally and privately. Once even 3 months at a time.
There was a dream that I have been wearing in me for 30 years: spend a lot of time with nomads!
You have exactly what is good for me: serenity, joie de vivre, music, wisdom and an incredible sense of reading energy fields. I almost only spent my time in men's society and it was so nourishing because there was so much care and appreciation.
In addition: on a road trip, you got to know new places: Tan Tan, Aglou, Agdz, Eaasauira.
My mother came to visit me in Marrakech and we spent a very nice time together.
Another world with a lot of friendliness and humor
I always said that I want to live in a world where people make music, laugh and dance.
I found all of this here in Morocco and much more. A connection was strengthened that I hadn't actually looked for…. But as it is: The best things that happen in life are those that you neither worked, nor waited and awaited!
Liberation from old patterns
Looking back before 2020.
It took a very long time to go through my shadow topics.
The failure to let go of a relationship that had anything but goodbye to me was a huge chunk of pain coping with pain. The healing needed a lot, patience, care and unrestricted self -love.
During this time, I was so busy with myself and the questions about my cheeky in relationships and with the questions about my femininity. From this, a great need in me developed to help other women to appreciate themselves and to live a happy life.
But first I had to learn to accept and heal this anger and grief.
It's not just the time that heals wounds. Above all, it is very conscious steps, reflection and interior show
that it takes to become successful in it.
At some point I had a real breakthrough!
My laugh came back, the joy of life, the confidence,
the desire, curiosity and the feeling of:
I can trust life and what happened, ultimately good for me.
Being happy is a decision!
My master Shika in India had already told me that in 2015.
But my ego, this little will in my head, who stuck to my "idea of how everything has to be", had stubbornly remained despite everything. So I continued to suffer for a while until I finally separated (!!!) and then could say at some point: Now I'm happy!
The magic of letting go and the turn
A lot of lightness and feelings of happiness flooded me last year. I did not want to be broken by external circumstances. 2022 was such a wonderful year because I had freed myself from my ideas and illusions. So I was not looking for a relationship, no man, no flirt, no sphere of life, no partnership and also no friendship-plus relationship model! Nothing that manages to get away from me and my joie de vivre .
But when I met a very special person at the end of 2022, everything changed completely in 2023!
Because this person has been turning my life upside down and I ask myself new questions:
- Do you really want a relationship?
- How do you want to feel in a relationship?
- What is at home for you?
- Where is that home? Is it a country, a place, a person?
In 2023, the year was spending more time in Morocco to find out whether I could live here and how strong my connection to the country, humans and partnership is.
What I take from Morocco with me
What this country does with me: As a woman who always thinks a lot, what is doing and drives the tasks and run after time, Morocco is a blessing. Everything is exactly the opposite here!
In summer it was so hot that I couldn't do anything anymore. I couldn't move because every movement was just too much. That's how I started to relax. There was rest into my system. A lot of sleeping during the day. All of this brought me into my inner world.
My motto was: to do the opposite of what I would do otherwise.
So I acted out of a field that felt uncertain. But I knew very well that my thoughts had arisen from old stories and possibly nothing to do with the reality I lived at that moment.
I learned to ask 2023 questions, to myself and my counterpart. No matter how childish or stupid I am inclined to judge.
It was as if I opened dusty thoughts and whose content I gave the freedom to show up.
And that was exactly what it was, whereby learning was allowed to trust. To trust another person.
I always summarized the courage to say everything I felt, thought, which frightened me, made me angry and I didn't understand. I learned to stand up for myself, to express my needs and wishes and do not sake my strife under the carpet, peace.
"Not Always Everybody's Darling"!
To be unappealing.
All of this let me grow out of me! I learned to trust in 2023. To trust me! And learn that my intuition is exactly right.
In general, I learn in this country:
- Sense of community
- Hospitality! The guest is always king!
- Friendliness is a great virtue
- Respect and attention
- Appreciation and protection for the woman
- Communication through the heart works!
- There are really telepathy
- Laughing is the best entertainment
- Just wait and see, because everything comes in his time
- About femininity, beauty,
about respect, about honor and about care
Marrakech, earthquake, AGDZ, Mhamid
When I arrive in Marrakech on September 3, I live with friends in an apartment in the Neustadt when the earthquake on September 8th will fluctuate our accommodation. I reported in detail in a blog post.
Out of caution because of the warnings of aftershocks, three of us sleep on the street for three days.
Later we buy food and bring relief supplies to the Atlas. I am enthusiastic about the cohesion of people here!
After two weeks in Marrakech, we decide to drive into the desert and not to the sea as planned.
Arrived in Mhamid it is sooooo so hot that I am unable to move during the day and instead I nest in the air -conditioned bedroom. In the evening I am outside again.
At night we often only eat at midnight and sometimes drive out into the dunes. The rhythm here is completely twisted.
There is not much to do.
I continue to write on my blog posts on other things.
For a change, I sometimes go to a café in the city.
While I am alone in Morocco for myself for 10 days for myself, I drive to AGDZ and spend the time in an old Kasbah. At first I am sick. But then I explore the surroundings and take walks in the fantastic oases.
It has no longer rained there for 7 years. The palm trees look very dusty and are partially dried up.
One night I treat myself to the beautiful hotel next door, where it has a swimming pool. Then I drive back to Mhamid and spend the next few weeks here. The Riad von Omar is a construction site. But it doesn't bother me. From time to time other guests come by.
The Taragal Music Festival at the end of October was a big disappointment this time!
It always goes for 3 days. Unfortunately I was not there for the first two days because I had such a terrible diarrhea!
But the third day, which normally represents a highlight, was anything but great!
For the second desert trip in November with the women we drive to Marrakech to receive them.
A happy group awaits us and we drive back into the desert the next day. A route is about 9 hours of car, but what's time?
Something you learn in Morocco is that time is not measured with the clockwise and the clocks tick differently. In my blogbietr AG I wrote about the time and the time qualities in Morocco.
Design trips with women bring us together to our very own strength
When we pick up 11 women in Marrakech and then drive over the Atlas in a cozy minibus into the desert,
I'm a fire and flame again. I burn with so much passion and joy for connecting with women!
I know about half of the women that they have concerns with other women.
I am all the more pleased that these concerns solve immediately. Because to pull through the desert together in a caravan with dromedaries and nomads, teach us community sense, care, cohesion, respect, dedication and responsibility.
Our desert guide explains that he has single tents for each person, but that he likes to build two large tents because then the cohesion of people happens faster. Nomads don't know anything else. They only survive in the community. Our society is an individualized company. We can learn here.
We learn from the lifestyle of the nomads. Simply by walking through the desert with them, celebrating life with music, dance, laughter and singing with them in the evening by the fire.
A sandstorm put us in contact with our inner storms for two days.
This experience is unique and so valuable!
Why?
Because we have no control over nature, events and over time.
When the storm is over, it is over.
If it is time to go on, we continue.
If it is time to rest, we rest.
Devotion is the only solution. She pulls the veil of the illusions away.
Exactly in these exhausting moments in the desert, the reversal spunt, the change begins.
Some feel it immediately. Some only after their return.
This is the magic of the desert!
It brings everything to light and helps us to see our light and potential.
The circle closes at the end of the year
In the end of this year I can say that everything that has occurred in my life has been wonderfully complemented and added.
My training and my professional life so far are only part of it.
The other part is that of my personal experiences that made me deal more thoroughly about women, men and relationships. Ultimately, to help people
live in good connections to themselves and others.
My 3 loved ones own blog articles of the year
3 Bulletpoints with headline of the blog article and link to the respective blog article.
- Blog article 1: With the caravan through the desert: Pure lust for life and femininity
in this article is all my love for working in the desert with women.
And towards this article I had new inquiries for the next desert trip. - Blog article 2: A short story about courtesy and hospitality
I love this short blog article because he says some encounter about the country through this one encounter. - Blog articles 3: Earthquake in Morocco on September 8, 2023: I was in Marrakech's peronious experiences
at this place and have experienced the earthquake and the help of people.
Ice swimming in the Ore Mountains
In February I drove to the Ore Mountains to be there at the event on February 22, 2023, the " Zollhaus Open" . My brother and my two nephews organize this under Addicted to Nature. It is an international ice swimming event in the middle of the forest, near the Czech border. Very lovingly designed in an extremely romantic frame. The host is the Landhotel Altes Zollhaus . People come from everywhere and have great fun in the ice water in various disciplines of 50 to 1000 meters of distances, swim and end up proudly knocking on their shoulders, sitting together in a warm tub and then celebrating partying and enjoying buffet and award ceremony.
I wrote about it in a review of the month .
It was nice to be there again (even if this time only as a helper and viewer). Experience the competition and the emotions of all the swimmers to experience makers and companions reminds me of my own time as a former swimmer in a very, very young age. 24.2.2024 I will be there again when it says again:
Take off your clothes and go into the water! Uahhhh!
What else was going on in 2023: unbearable heat and fire fires in Sicily
During the summer I am back with my family in Sicily.
There I give my courses and massages and enjoy the sea.
The heat becomes almost unbearable in the course of summer. Even for me!
I live in the country, 5 minutes by car from the sea. Without air conditioning.
The first time I buy a fan for the night. I shower myself several times at night
and put myself in bed wet and naked.
Everyone is so broken by the heat wave that has grasped all of Europe.
It is a summer again in which I am a lot in the country for myself and work on my business.
Sitting in front of a large window, looking at the sea, I should have seen what was going outside in the short time.
But I didn't look at it. Until my girlfriend came by car and told me that it was burning around us everywhere and we should go away immediately. I told her that I would like to write something ready and then come with my scooter.
When I got up after a while to look at the situation outside, I didn't understand my own stupidity! It burned everywhere! Ash flew through the air and the sun was completely covered by the ash rain. I quickly grabbed all my money, my passport, my new laptop and a few clothes. Then I grabbed my scooter and drove through almost unbearable heat clouds to the family on the sea.
Ultimately, everything went well! Shortly before the country house was on fire, the wind turned and a water plane appeared.
What luck we were! Many others not. Hating burned and the trees and the whole nature was charred black.
Such a sad sight!
Every year there is heat and arson everywhere.
Also with broken glass, which bring the dried shrubs to burn with the strong sunlight.
My findings in 2023
- Follow the signs, impulses and invitations in life, even if my mind says: Are you crazy?
- Be brave to jump into the unknown, even if I'm afraid.
- To have clarity about what I really want, creates the necessary attraction to achieve it!
- Live liability!
- Consciousness and the review of my thoughts are the key to change
- To recognize me as the most important person in my life
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My goals for 2024
- Design trips for men also offer
men to support men to feel valuable and confident so that we can all live together better. - Other new and old desert travel concepts
are so many ideas and concepts in my head that I would like to achieve in 2024.
There would be the T ai-chi desert retreat and the women's trip: longing for origin .
I am currently planning a menu and a trip for queens, for young people and for business people. - Offer course online:
To be honest, women in their female power, I sway internally with this online idea. My belief that nobody wants to do anything anymore, comes into my head with all the considerations and blocks me. I know how valuable my input is. - Time for connections and relationships
The older I get, the more I want to be more for my environment. For my friends and for my family. - Growing business and financial freedom
I have to change so much and invest a lot after the corona crisis, in time, money and patience.
For the 2024 I hope that the buds will bloom magnificently and I have more than enough money
to continue to invest and make it possible. - Plant my first tree in the desert.
A new home….
My conclusion
Letting go of my old stories took a long time.
But taking this path gave me a completely new awareness, a new
attitude to life and new life events. I am very, very grateful for that!
Investing in yourself and taking new steps requires courage and a lot of patience.
Life wants to learn and is growth. I love growing, learning and finally
passing on my experiences.
But sometimes life demands exactly the opposite:
stay still, indulge, wait and enjoy what is there.
I would like to wish that for the coming year 2024.
Dear Nora,
thanks for this wonderful insight into your year. I love it and I will read a few other posts right away, about the desert trip with the women. The desert also has a special fascination on me,
I was in Marrakech for the first time this year and found it great.
I wish you success with all your projects.
From the heart of Ines
Dear Ines,
thank you for your enthusiasm!
I'm pleased! Yes, maybe you will come into the desert.
All love! Nora
Dear Nora,
a great review of the year. Your lust for life and joie de vivre is so contagious.
I was already in the desert and can understand your enthusiasm and your writing very well.
Good luck and success for 2024.
Kind regards Martina
Ahhh beautiful! I see on your website that you also convey the power of joie de vivre and take this life engine important! Thanks for your feedback! Very warm, Nora