GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 9 | Page 110

the comfort and safety of family, friends and
home. It gives you your first experience of
yourself in your essential nature as alone and
ultimately entirely responsible for yourself in
the big, wide world. You can find yourself being
pushed to emotionally to your limits while you
feel the security of your former boundaries and
beliefs crumbling beneath you in a new and
exciting but, nevertheless, strange land. It
can be scary when this happens and you don’t
know what is happening because it can feel
like your very sanity and stability is at stake. It
is difficult to feel anchored and trust yourself to
make wise decisions when your internal
compass feels like it has gone wild. It is so
crucial at this point that you realise you are at
this place for a very significant reason.
At this place, there is a birthing, an emergence
of a v