Hi!
I’m Natalie.I can’t tell you how to live the life of your dreams, manifest your soulmate, or make a million dollars on Instagram.
I actually hate Instagram. (I still use it sometimes.)
But I can tell you this: one day, a few years ago, I realized that despite my marriage, my house, and my semi-fancy writing job, I was miserable. And that almost everyone else I knew was miserable, too.
So I went and traveled the world.
I thought travel would help me find all the answers and live happily ever after. You’ll be shocked to know that this did not happen.
But after a while, it did help me tell the truth. It taught me how telling our stories can unite us, and make us kinder to each other (and ourselves). And that we can only build a fair and just (and happy) world together, with kindness.
I love supporting people on similar journeys. I do this through teaching meditation and writing (usually together), and through telling my stories in film, book, essay and podcast form.
You can read some of those stories here and here. You listen to some here. And you can check out stories I write for other people over here.
Welcome to my small piece of the internet. Please make yourself at home.
I can’t tell you how to live the life of your dreams, manifest your soulmate, or make a million dollars on Instagram.
I actually hate Instagram. (I still use it sometimes.)
But I can tell you this: one day, a few years ago, I realized that despite my marriage, my house, and my semi-fancy writing job, I was miserable. And that almost everyone else I knew was miserable, too.
So I went and traveled the world.
I thought travel would help me find all the answers and live happily ever after. You’ll be shocked to know that this did not happen.
But after a while, it did help me tell the truth. It taught me how telling our stories can unite us, and make us kinder to each other (and ourselves). And that we can only build a fair and just (and happy) world together, with kindness.
I love supporting people on similar journeys. I do this through teaching meditation and writing (usually together), and through telling my stories in film, book, essay and podcast form.
You can read some of those stories here and here. You listen to some here. And you can check out stories I write for other people over here.
Welcome to my small piece of the internet. Please make yourself at home.
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Gentle Men
“Maybe these things take a while to develop. Maybe people change. Maybe vulnerability grows.” So I waited, even though I knew – or at least, the loud lady living in the corner of my brain knew – that people don’t change on a dime like that, unless they are characters in Hollywood movies.
And then, Ruble died.
Naughty Nat
I have, to my surprise and horror, met someone I like.
It’s not serious. I can’t do serious yet. I am still too traumatized by serious. Even leaving a bottle of contact lens solution at his house feels transgressive. He gave me a toothbrush because I forgot mine, and I had to stop myself from throwing it out afterwards to delete the evidence.
He loves to travel.
He doesn’t want kids. At all. Ever.
Retreat
“I’m going out of my mind,” I whisper to my friend Susan.
“Me, too,” she whispers back. “But don’t forget: it’s Day 2.”
