26/08/2025
“Hey Siri, I wanna try a new life” - check out this mega cool website page of things you can try! https://www.allankarl.com/try-something-new-35-ideas-for-doing-something-new-different-in-your-life/
I’ve recently thrown myself into some ‘new life’ activities. I’ve booked to clean a beach in England - I’m studying on Udemy something I’ve never done before - I went CAMPING for goodness sake and saw some of the most beautiful things I have EVER seen in Scotland. I’ve got a new hobby of seeing as many of the different bodies of water located around the UK. I have made changes to my furniture at home and my wardrobe choices. I made changes to my make up and beauty routines. I’ve stepped forward with some extra training at work. Bought myself an air fryer so I can now be ‘better than’ people who use ovens! Haha! (AIR FRYERS ROCK!!!!!!! - strongly suggest you get one!) I’ve come off some social medias and stopped some of my old hobbies that weren’t really lifting me anymore. I’ve changed my hair style. It’s actually awesome. For such a long time I’ve addressed my mind. Sorted my mind - studied the mind - done courses to understand my mind and other peoples minds - I’ve considered and fixed what’s in my head for years. And finally after 6 years of pretty much dedicated mind healing I’ve now got the strength to aesthetically move on - I guess I’m in a physical glow up now rather than a mental glow up!!! I have the mental space for looking at my surroundings and seeing if my physical life matches my mental life. It’s exciting! I did even have plans to live on a boat but after researching it properly I’ve decided to just live near water rather than living on it. Life is changing aesthetically and I feel I’m so glad I fixed my mind first before the aesthetics, not that that was a conscious plan tbh. I was broken at one point that I couldn’t do ANYTHING. I just couldn’t do anything until my mind was healed enough!!!!! I had no choice but to heal that first - I had no energy for anything else and quite frankly I didn’t care about aesthetics - but the freedom from doing that and now stepping forward yet again to address my life aesthetics is exciting. I’m glad my subconscious mind decided this route for me as I think I would’ve recommended this to others. Ideally we’d want to fix our minds first and then allow the blossoming of the flowers to show later 🌺 i believe in this route otherwise you just spray perfume on the ‘crap’ and the perfume can’t win. There were many times I thought I was never going to heal and I was to be what i was but the day has come. How did I do that? I can honestly say books, therapy, good people around me. Allow time to move as slowly as it needs to travel. Healing is VERY VERY SLOW - but ITS STURDY AND LIFELONG! Allow time to move slowly to heal you. It not linear either. Sometimes you will step forwards and fall back - sometimes your gallop forward and think you’re healed but you’re not quite. And then one day you’ll realise that you just don’t care anymore…… you just don’t care like you used to. And this is when you can look at your day in the present moment and this is when you can look at your future and decide what you want to try in life. All the things that you wanted to try before the trauma happened the person that you were supposed to be comes back and has another go at life. The ‘go’ that you were always supposed to have. Plus, you have all the knowledge that you learnt in your trauma to not make those mistakes again or to help those loved ones around you who are going through similar things…. Life can be beautiful again. It will be beautiful again. What did you used to like? What did you used to love when you were young? Do one of those things in the next month…..
After my last post, I received many requests for suggestions on "new things." Here's a starting point for anyone looking to move outside their comfort zone and trying something new or different.
