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I am in the middle of a big life change (1/30), an I am in the middle of a big life change (1/30), and I’m challenging myself to open up about every emotion along the way. 🥹

You know that feeling where you know you’ve outgrown a situation, a moment in your life, but are too afraid of escaping that comfortable, familiar place in search of something new?

Where you can sense that something is shifting inside of you, but if you voice it, it becomes real, and you’re not sure if you’re ready for all of that? 

This is the moment I’m in.

welcome to my 30ish day challenge of posting. Documenting. Showing up and feeling all the things as I take a leap I’ve been hoping to do for ages.

Truthfully, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I’ll be figuring it all out as I go! 

Any guesses? 

#30daychallenge | vlog | #fyp
I am in the middle of a big life change, and I’m I am in the middle of a big life change, and I’m challenging myself to open up about every emotion along the way 🥹 Day 1

You know that feeling where you know you’ve outgrown a situation, a moment in your life, but are too afraid of escaping that comfortable, familiar place in search of something new?

Where you can sense that something is shifting inside of you, but if you voice it, it becomes real, and you’re not sure if you’re ready for all of that? 

This is the moment I’m in.

welcome to my 30ish day challenge of posting. Documenting. Showing up and feeling all the things as I take a leap I’ve been hoping to do for ages.

Truthfully, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I’ll be figuring it all out as I go! 

Any guesses? 

#30daychallenge | vlog | #fyp
Visit Mo’orea with me! 🌴 Have you heard of t Visit Mo’orea with me! 🌴

Have you heard of this island? I took a solo trip here from Tahiti on my last day in French Polynesia and this is how I spent it. I’d have loved to spend more than a day here but this was all the time I had and when there’s a will, I’ll find a way. Like biking nearly 30 miles on an e-bike in one day which transparently, I have never done before 😅

Side note, in preparation for my 30(ish) day posting challenge, I’m already challenging myself to show up more consistently, more authentically, less polished. My goal is to fall in love with social media again. I’m starting by having more fun with video editing and voiceovers, like this one.

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Tahiti | French Polynesia | Moorea | #moorea | #freediving | Coral Gardeners | #coralgardeners | #travel
Postcards from Polynesia 🌴 Has a place ever fe Postcards from Polynesia 🌴

Has a place ever felt like a warm hug and a familiar friend? French Polynesia felt like this to me. Like a place I’ve known my whole life. If it weren’t for the French speaking and the love of roquefort (jokes but seriously I will never be sophisticated enough for blue cheese) I’d say it felt like home.

Some of my favorite moments from my first time in these beautiful islands (swipe):

🌸 Watching the surfers at world-famous Teahupoo
🌸 Every time a whale revealed itself to us 🫶🏽
🌸 This playful little girl, who had no idea how big she was and got a liiiiittle too close 🥹😅
🌸 Boat chats, dancing, and endless inside jokes 
🌸 Swimming with a fever of 20+ eagle rays, where I felt time slow down before my eyes 
🌸 Our wonderful hosts for the week and of course, the pink pony club 🐴
🌸 Seeing a coral nursery and feeling hope 

🫶🏽 i have one more post from French Polynesia coming for now, thank you for following along!

📸 underwater photos @natureman.j 

French Polynesia | Tahiti | Humpback Whales | Freediving | #FYP | #freedivers | #travel
When the doomscroll aches, look around, come up fo When the doomscroll aches, look around, come up for air, and name at least 3 things to be grateful for. 

Can you do that? 

PS - Follow @racheloffduty for more travel joy. I’m on a journey of self re(discovery) in my 30s, and I’d love to take you along 🫶🏽
Nearly every time I go online lately, it feels lik Nearly every time I go online lately, it feels like drowning. It’s why lately, I’ve felt like posting less and less. 

But when I come up for air, and stop to look around, I am constantly reminded of all the things worth remaining optimistic for!

Things like...

1. dancing with strangers turned fast friends, or

2. laughing so hard my belly aches because a woman with 73 years of life experience who lives on the other side of the planet is giving me hilarious, and most definitely questionable, advice on how to get men (haven’t we all met someone so unbelievably wild and full of life while on vacation??) or

3. witnessing the beauty and resilience of nature, or

4. sharing a meal with people offline paired with real, raw conversation

5. health, and the ability to move my body and do little things that scare me

… all these little things, that become the big things in time. 

I’m slowly finding new inspiration to keep showing up here. To keep showing up in my joy and my silliness and my hope even when the world feels crazy. 

So here’s a little reminder in case you, like I, might’ve needed one 🫶🏽 When the doomscroll aches, look around, come up for air, and name at least 3 things to be grateful for. 

Can you do that?
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