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Welcome to My Basic Journey. A journey to living a sustainable, compassionate and healthy lifestyle with a focus on travel, spirituality and personal growth.
I made dramatic changes to turn around what I felt like was a worthless existence. Conquering addiction saved my life. It was tough, but I knew that I wasn’t going to make it unless I made the necessary changes. I had to lose almost everything I had, including people, my job, my living situation, most of my belonging besides what would fit in my car, and any sense of myself I had before that moment.
I have been on a journey of self-love and self-discovery. It has been the hardest, yet most rewarding thing I’ve been through. This is why I wanted to start this blog because I know it’s not easy going through this alone. If I could help anyone by sharing my experience and the things I’ve learned, then I will feel content.
I moved across the country to a place I didn’t know a single person and started building a life here.
I have been focusing on myself for once. This includes trying to heal myself from so many years of neglect and abuse. From the age of thirteen to twenty-seven, I was buried so deep under years of substance abuse. I was drowning my emotions and not allowing me to cope and deal with life at all.
When real life started, and I was no longer living in my mother’s basement wasting my life away, I didn’t know how to cope. At first, everything was amazing; Everything was new and exciting, and I loved the new scenery I’ve put myself in. The depression I felt, that I thought would disappear when the substances did, was lingering on and eventually was able to swallow me whole. The anxiety became overwhelming, to the point of not breathing and hyperventilating, shaking and crying uncontrollably.
I had only experienced two full blown panic attacks in my life before this. From previous occurrences, I knew what anxiety was and felt like, but not to this extent. I was waking up daily in panic, dreading my days before me. From an outside perspective, I seemed fine. I was going about my day, and doing all of the things. Wake up, get to work, do my job, go home, eat, go to sleep, repeat. Right?
I’m sure that sounds familiar to a lot of you.
I tried at one point to start a business in Natural Wellness, called Essentially Chantelle, which is still the page name of my Facebook Page. With this, I discovered my love of the idea of having my own business and entrepreneurship, but I knew it wasn’t going to be with network marketing. After deciding that, it took me about six months of frustration, tears and almost giving up before I thought of the idea, My Basic Journey.
This is not the first blog I started, but this is the first blog that I started that was my own platform. I created this website from the ground up with only YouTube to help me. After the idea came to me, I knew with every cell in my body that this is a route I am destined to take.
My passions have become healing (using the law of attraction, manifestation, meditation, and movement.), travel, veganism, and minimalism. All of these are tools I use to help me get back to the basics of life, to learn to love myself enough to help others feel love too. I want to spread the knowledge I’ve learned and will continue to learn, with anyone and everyone, in hopes it can help them as well.
This path can be lonely, but you don’t have to go through it alone. If you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to reach out via the contact page! http://mybasicjourney.com/contact/ I also give tarot readings for all of your curious beings. Information for that can be found here: http://mybasicjourney.com/services/ Please join my e-mail list to get updates when a new post is up.
Thank you so much for being here. <3
