An Ode to My Little Storied Home

Growth is inevitable. When we grow into something new, we grow out of something old. We grow out of clothes, we grow out of hobbies, we grow out of habits both good and bad, we grow out of relationships and friendships, we grow out of jobs that no longer fulfill us (or never truly did to begin with). We grow out of spaces, too. This little storied home included. 

In the five years I’ve lived here, I’ve grown. Mostly emotionally and spiritually, but mentally and physically too. Within the walls of this little old bungalow, I learned to love myself and others more deeply. I learned to set boundaries and explore curiosities. I rediscovered my creativity and realigned with my values. I learned to trust myself. In this home, I reconnected to the truth of who I am and built a life of meaning, purpose and joy. I became my favorite version of self, and in turn, this little home became the best version of itself, too. 

Nearly five years to date, our time together is up. We typically know when we’ve outgrown our clothes, but outgrowing homes looks a little different. Unless you’ve built a family, there are no physical signs. Knowing when you’ve outgrown a home requires awareness, intuition and trust. 

It was late January of this year and life felt stale; externally chaotic, internally flat and predictable. Both creative doers, my partner and I began looking for opportunities to shake life up. We looked where we always look, home. We reopened the kitchen backsplash conversation and started brainstorming hardwood flooring. Then one day, between meetings and project deadlines, my partner sent me a job opening at a small company that he’s long admired, in a town that we’ve long dreamed of moving to. It was the spark that ignited our fire. I started piecing together all the little details I hadn't previously noticed. Perhaps we weren’t completing house projects for our own enjoyment but in preparation to move. Perhaps I never heard back from that part-time job because we won’t actually be living in Portland much longer. Through this unexpected opportunity, I realigned with the natural energetic flow of life. 

In flow, we pick up on things we may otherwise miss, like the message that came through my favorite astrologer. Discussing the instability of our world, she invited listeners to look for opportunities to simplify, minimize, pay down and pay off any unnecessary expenses. In that moment I knew with crystal clarity: it was time to sell our little storied home and take a leap of faith toward our dream. My body felt electric, alive and connected to something far beyond my reality.

I told my husband over dinner that night. I told him that I would hold space for his reactions and feelings, but that ultimately I needed him to trust me on this one. I promised that although I couldn’t explain how, I knew that we needed to do this. He received my wild declaration with acceptance and curiosity, but the more logical and skeptical between us, he naturally had a long list of questions, most of which I couldn’t answer.

I was living in the flow of life, already past questions that could slow us down or alter our destined trajectory. I felt complete and total trust in my intuitive download, knowing that by the very nature of the download, all the details were already in cosmic alignment – our only job was to say yes. But we all have our processes, so I invited him to sit with it and we agreed to revisit the conversation later in the week. 

He was on board by dinner the following evening. Our real estate agents came over that Friday. They ran numbers, gave us the green light and we picked a symbolic date to hit the market. It felt surreal, like I had unlocked some secret map that was literally guiding me to the doorsteps of what was once a dream. 

Don’t get me wrong – preparing our house for the market in five weeks with a two week international vacation in between was no easy feat. We often felt reminded of the early days in this home where we worked by day, ate take out pizza for dinner and painted until 11pm, only to wake and do it all over. From that perspective, the exhaustion felt symbolic, as if we were bringing our chapter in this home to a full circle. Not to mention, when we bought this house we envisioned three to five years – this is the end of year five, almost to the date. 

To keep ourselves focused and in flow, we made a manifestation list. Each night either over dinner or before bed, we listed everything we wanted in the sale of our home and everything we wanted in the rental that we would soon call home. We kept our vision alive and made our desires crystal clear to the higher powers that be. 

Never underestimate the magnetic power of intention. 

The sale of our home is a fairytale. A story for another day, it is a beautiful and pure testament to how extraordinary life can be when we learn to tune into our intuition and trust ourselves. 

We’re less than two weeks from closing. We don’t have a rental home yet. We have 60 days of free rent back and a grand invitation to trust ourselves and the higher powers that be once again. To rise above scarcity and fear, trusting that everything we want in a rental, maybe even more, awaits us if we can hold the space and continue to flow.

We’ve come full circle. Not just with our home, but with ourselves too. We’ve grown and transformed alongside this home. We are not who we once were. We are the best version of ourselves in every way, just as this home is the best version of itself to date. We are ending an era, closing a chapter feeling a deep and profound sense of gratitude, joy and freedom knowing that dreams aren’t just abstract thoughts to carry us through monotonous seasons of life; dreams are the map to everything we want and more. We carry the key to that map within ourselves. 

My job is to help you find that key so that you can anchor your wildest dreams into reality, too. The time is now because life is too short to put your dreams on hold. Schedule a complimentary 50 minute session to get started. Together we’ll work backward, exploring what stands between your current reality and the life of your dreams. By the end of our session you’ll have a new perspective, a spark of clarity, and a handful of strategies to help you realign to the natural magic and flow of life. 

With love and light,