Life Lessons — A Broad In London — In Search of Mr Darcy

Important Lessons You Can Only Learn From Travelling Solo

It’s been said, once you get past a certain age, and for me, that was fifty, life becomes a little same:same. I had been chugging away at my career for eons, entrenched in a predictable relationship, and booked the same annual holidays spots with the kids in the name of “easy”.

An inevitable boredom seeped in that I just accepted as “age appropriate.”

Truth was, I had stopped growing. I had stopped learning about me…about life… about everything.

But it wasn’t until after a colossal, unpredictable breakup that something extraordinary happened. Not unlike Dorothy’s cyclone, my house, my life…my entire world was lifted up and dropped down hard. I was catapulted out of my comfortable, predictable life and jettisoned into a new, unexplored world.

I was suddenly single…again.

Explore, Life Lessons, TravelChristina FordOctober 3, 2021Solo Travel, Women Travelling Solo, Life Lessons, Cinque Terre, Hiking, explore, passport

Fear. When Are You Suppose To Push Through It OR Heed Its Very Real Warning?

FEAR. That is what I feel every time I ride that first chair lift of a ski trip.

I only learned to ski in my forties so never possessed that fearless, “throw yourself down the hill” childlike freestyle. Skiing was outside my comfort zone and it did not come naturally due my total lack of any inherited athletic ability (or so I tell myself).

Pushing through my fear I learned to ski. It allowed me to experience some incredible parts of the world I would have otherwise missed. All the while creating and redefining my own personal bests. I felt highs that can only come from overcoming fear and emerging out the other side victorious. But fear is multi-purposed. Push through OR beware? As I get older those lines are getting blurred, not nearly as obvious as they used to be. Fear is there to stop you from doing stupid dumbass shit, right?

So How Do You Know What Fear Is Trying To Tell You?

Life LessonsChristina FordFebruary 5, 2018Fear, Skiing, Zermatt, Switzerland, Life Lessons, vacation, Burning Man, I Was Here, Rosa Parks

A-BROAD IN LONDON

A Survival Guide To Life, Travel & Being Sensationally Single

An inevitable boredom seeped in that I just accepted as “age appropriate.”

FEAR. That is what I feel every time I ride that first chair lift of a ski trip.

So How Do You Know What Fear Is Trying To Tell You?

A-BROAD IN LONDON

A Survival Guide To Life, Travel & Being Sensationally Single

An inevitable boredom seeped in that I just accepted as “age appropriate.”

FEAR. That is what I feel every time I ride that first chair lift of a ski trip.

So How Do You Know What Fear Is Trying To Tell You?

A Broad in London