Hello world. Here I am. It is me, Rach. In 2017 at the ripe age of 25 I drove myself to the emergency room to be told I was just experiencing ovarian cysts and should let them pass. Three days later I woke up from emergency surgery with a temporary colostomy bag. I was young, fit, and healthy, or so the doctors and I thought. I followed a “balanced diet”, been an athlete my whole life, drank enough water to fill a pool, but my colon perforated due to diverticulitis.
It’s moments like these that make us stop and think “huh. Weird, turns out I’m not invincible. Now what?” Over the past three years I have been on a mission to not only recover physically, mentally, and emotionally, but also find out what happened, why we’re here, and what it is I want to do with this life.
My whole existence there has been a spirit tugging at my soul to go this way, take this chance, but I so badly want to be in control of what happened (words that have been used to describe me through out my life: intense, particular, crazy, dare I say…controlling.) The past three years have made me realize I have no control so I should probably learn to give it up and let the spirit that guides take the reigns. Through this realization the spirit has been asking me, what does your soul want?
That question leads me to this experiment. My soul wants adventure, knowledge, real food for everyone, to take care of the earth we’ve been given, and to spend time with the love of my life. Ultimately, to let myself be guided by the spirit that makes me yearn for all these things and not what society or my own mind deems as acceptable.
What do I hope to learn from this experiment? How to travel sustainably, if such a thing exists. How to nourish our bodies traditionally and correctly, past what conventional methods are pushed by industry. How to create, sustain, and support regenerative agriculture. How to look past my anxiety-riddled existential spirals and see the hope in this world. And most importantly how to listen to and respect other humans; how to follow our guts, our souls, the universe, and the spirit, in order to take care of ourselves, others, and the planet, because in the end it’s all connected.
I hope you will join me and possibly learn something about yourself and the world while you are here.