April 13, 2022(Updated edition now available here: mybook.to/livingfearlessly )
Do you remember when I wrote Living Fearlessly? It’s been five years! Following its publication, I embarked on my Digital Nomad Adventure (thirty locations in fifteen months, from Stroud to Stockholm.)
Many of you cheered me on as I moved from house to house with one small white suitcase. I had just turned forty-nine and was in my fiftieth year. My first stop was an elegant town house in Fulham, taking care of two little westies.
I took a train to London, moved into a lovely family’s house and it felt like I had appropriated someone else’s life. Where was Rachel? After twenty years in a tiny Suffolk village, raising our girls and living a quiet life, it was a huge transformation and quite a shock.
Those were crazy days—some wonderful and many heartbreaking. My twenty-five year marriage had ended and I was trying to figure out what to do next, with the minimum fallout for my family. It’s never easy to make such drastic changes, and the insights and understanding I share in Living Fearlessly is what got me through the most difficult time in my adult life.
Transformation is wonderful but it can also be intensely painful. It’s a shedding of the old and a discovery and acceptance of the new…
You question and doubt yourself.
‘Can I do it?’
‘Do I have the courage to create a new version of me or should I just play it safe and stick with the life I know?’
The problem is that when change wants to happen, it will happen anyway, whether you feel ready for it or not. Those of you who have suffered tragedy, know this.
During my housesitting travels, to name but a few locations, I stayed in a three storey Victorian home in Surrey with two labradoodles, a gorgeous Chelsea flat with an elderly cockapoo just off the King’s Road and a three minute walk to Chelsea Embankment, a four-storey townhouse with The Tower of London almost in its back yard (and two siamese cats).
I explored Cheltenham, staying there for three months, and also landed a fantastic gig in a Swedish villa overlooking the lake on the outskirts of Stockholm. And let’s not forget, the cramped little house in Burgess Hill with the cute, elderly, ever-purring cat. It wasn’t all glamour. There was a blocked toilet, an old-fashioned stove I had to keep burning through the night in a godforsaken farm off the beaten track, and one poor dead chicken. There were tears. Lots of them. Nuff said. My mission in between meltdowns was to research and complete my debut novel, Twin Flames, (which has since morphed into a popular Mystical Time Travel Romance series with Book 4 in the works).
There have been many more changes—both epic transformations and tiny ripples. My coaching business transformed into a successful Ghostwriting and Co-writing service for busy CEOs and entrepreneurs, which is amazing as I’ve now been a full time writer for several years, dividing my writing time between my novels and my clients’ books. (Who said you can’t make great money and have a wonderful life as an author?) Living Fearlessly is a game changer.
The amazing thing is it took none of the ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ old style pushing and striving. It happened organically when I learnt how to follow and trust my intuition. We all know what to do, even though we sometimes think we don’t. We think other people know better. They don’t. Not for us. It’s an inside-out job and I share my insights in the book, so that readers can apply the understanding to their own situation and learn to listen to and trust themselves. (Again)
If this intrigues you and you’d like to know more about transforming your fear into freedom, without ‘working on yourself’ or making yourself do things you don’t want to do, then keep an eye out for my posts.
Living Fearlessly has had an update, a smart new cover and I’ll be relaunching it shortly. The stuff I share in the book (I don’t claim to have invented it—it’s not the latest 3-step system) It is a deep universal understanding of how to get more out of yourself and your own wisdom so that your life transforms in ways you have only dreamed.
Ready for a new you or a new experience of the old you?
It’s easier than you think…
