Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone

August 15, 2019

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

That saying has hung on my wall since I was a senior in college. And how true those words are. Back then, I was recovering from a head injury and a break-up, facing innumerable challenges on a personal and physical level. 

Now, I am a mother of a 13 week old beautiful daughter, a wife to an incredible man, and we have just moved to Kenya. 

Living in the Kenyan bush has been a life-long dream of mine from the very first time I came to Africa with my family at 7 years old. The people, the land, the animals... all of which captured my heart 22 years ago, and never left.

Yesterday I asked myself if I was crazy for doing what we are doing. Moving literally across the Earth to another country, another culture, a new job, a new place... and with our newborn baby. 

Yes, it is crazy. And it is challenging in ways that I anticipated as well as others that I couldn’t have possibly imagined. But following your dreams requires at times a complete leap of faith. Hoping and opening and trusting in something greater than yourself, beyond which you could ever possibly truly comprehend. 

Following your dreams takes courage. 

As I lay here in bed, I can’t help but feel the urge to pinch myself. Is this really real life? Is this really truly finally happening? 

I have prayed and begged and dreamed of this for years now, and here it finally is, a tangible reality.

The feeling is unlike any other. It is intoxicating, standing at the edge of your comfort zone. Terrifying, electrifying and incredible. Standing at the edge of the “known” and with faith and courage moving towards the life you have imagined. The life you want. The life you have longed for. 

Behind the mirage of what we think life is... after the bullshit of societies expectations, the ingrained conditioning, the “should’s” and “shouldn’t’s” of life are removed. That is where reality lies. And that is where life truly begins.