Where do I begin…

Do you know that beautiful 80’s song ‘Love Story’ by Andy Williams? No, I wasn’t talking about Taylor Swift. That’s not the kind of blog we have here. :)

The song kept playing in my mind as I was beginning to write this post.

‘Where do I begin, to tell the story of how great a love can be? The sweet love story that is older than the sea…where do I start?’

I’ll start from the present and make my way back, to give you some foundation to work with.

I’m Ana - hello my darling and thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts.

As a mother, wife, immigrant in a newish country (moved to Canada from Romania over 10 years ago), traveler, holistic geek, cat mom, writer of all things deeply beautiful and speaker of words that bring life back into people, I’ve played around with many ideas of how I wish my online presence to be.

Do I just write?

Do I just create reels?

Do I just speak on podcasts?

How about ALL. Let’s do it allllll.

I love to do it all, and not from a place of needing to accomplish anything, but from a place that feels aligned with my creatively happy brain and heart.

I love to make people happy. No, not as a form of people pleasing - even though I used to be one fabulous people pleaser - but from a place of truly believing I can leave people better than I found them because of who I am, how I speak, how I write and especially how I think and feel.

Feeling is my superpower.

In Human Design, my ‘authority’ is Emotion. I feel with every cell of my body. I feel with every thought of my mind. I feel with my whole spirit. If I were a cat my purr would heal you just by being in my presence 20 seconds.

That’s how deeply I know how to feel.

I used to hate the fact that I feel everything to such a deep extent, because I used to not know how to set boundaries, how to prioritize my time, how to respect and love myself as much as I respect and love others.

I used to be a doormat ‘in a previous lifetime’. My mind wasn’t my friend. My emotions didn’t know how to be disciplined. But that changed when I came back to God.

For a large majority of my life I lived with some serious mental stuff going on - I recorded a podcast about that whole time if you want to listen to it - but once I began to heal my mind and respect and put in check my emotions, I noticed something else was still missing.

I kept looking for somewhere or something to belong to - friendships, relationships, projects, collaborations. Until… I met Christ.

Well, better said, I re-encountered Him.

And that is when I knew, I needed to dedicate my life to building a relationship with my Lord and Saviour, with the Creator of everything and everyone, without restrictions and limitations from religious approaches. Those were the things that pushed me away from Him in the first place, so they couldn’t be at the base of this new chapter.

I began to properly learn who He is, who I am for Him and where does all of this fit.

The more I learned, the more it all made sense.

The more I read, the more I felt free in my mind, and attuned in my heart.

The more I listened to sermons, podcasts, talks, testimonies, teachings, the more I could hear Him speaking through the people I would surround myself with.

And then, one day I said: I need to speak about it too, but from MY perspective. Not just from a place of ‘OMG, He came and saved me and it all was perfect afterwards.’ But from a place of growth, of true personal development, of understanding, of sharing mistakes and lessons, of belonging.

Finally belonging.

And so, Becoming Abundant came into existence. The blog, the podcast, the IG community. The space where those who felt empty, emotionally lacking, mentally overwhelmed could find a haven to belong to. A space to feel seen, understood and where they could grow in alignment with their birthrights: to be free, to be loved and to belong.

I’m so happy to have you here. It’s going to be such a ride!

Get ready for some very fun, deep, transformative, life speaking posts and topics.

I’m so excited to share it all with you.

Until next post, remember to Stay Salty & Bright!

xoxo,

Ana