The Peace of Enoughness

Hello everyone and thanks for your patience while I stepped back from here to absorb my relocation fully.

Movies tell us that a clean-cut happy ending happens all the time. But life is rarely like that. It’s ever-changing.

Even seeing your dream realised doesn’t mean the learning has stopped.

There has been plenty for me these past weeks as we navigate a new lifestyle. While it is similar to how I grew up, less the slaughtering of animals on sheep and cattle farms (thankfully) and more awe for the wildlife, there have still been adjustments to make.

My time of transition continues and today, I feel my heart’s call to go back to bed for a while and let go of all responsibilities, since my daughter is at school and our dogs have mastered the doggie door so can come and go as they like. (At last!)

Sometimes, we just need to give ourselves nurturing, especially through chapters of large change.

I love my new little home. It’s gorgeous and so lovely to wake up here each day.

I also adore the wildlife, some of which I’ve shared in recent vlogs. You can catch up on them all here, including fighting kangaroos:

29. Why My Tiny House Dream Almost Killed Me

30. Becoming Friends with Money

31. Living Slowly in a Fast World

Having moved a lot in my past, including getting my belongings down to only a handful of boxes at one point, it’s always been my intention to try tiny home living – to let go of surplus belongings, to find ways to do more with less, to honour simplicity and enoughness. And I have to say, it feels great!

I have enough. I am living comfortably, sleeping in my own bed in a warm and cosy home.

It’s enough.

If you have water, food, a safe shelter, and people who love you, you really do have enough.

When I see how much of humanity is living without those essentials (and I’ve experienced the same myself in earlier life), I feel very blessed with enoughness and abundance.

Some may not see my life as particularly abundant since I’ve never romanced society’s interpretation of success. But we all have our own version of what success is and what abundance is. I share examples of abundance in Episode 30 of the vlog.

This is not me coming down on those with big dreams. I still have other dreams too. Expansion is a part of the human heart. But there are ways to expand while still honouring our beautiful planet, our home, and while still honouring a life that actually supports us.

The more-more-more lifestyle has a hard time truly filling anyone up completely.

So I invite you this fortnight to check in with your heart and ask it:

“What does enough look like for me?”

This doesn’t mean you have to surrender your other dreams. It just means being present to realise that on a global scale, you possibly already have enough.

Gratitude for that along the way to the bigger dreams truly does offer a different sort of peace.

Is the chase for more worth it?

What does it represent to you?

What is great about your life in the meantime?

Enoughness may be the final destination or it may be a stepping stone to the next level.

Either way, it’s worth leaning into it a little and letting its peace wrap around you like a nurturing soft blanket on a cold winter’s day.

Enoughness can do that.

With love,

Bronnie.

PS. The audiobook for The Purple Chair is now available through all usual outlets. All six stories are recorded in one book, so I invite you to check it out and follow Gwen as she heals others while life is healing her.

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