THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST

Abby Lewtas 30/10/18 Abby Lewtas 30/10/18

Travelling with space and feminine essence with Leticia Ringe.

Leticia is a Life & Purpose Coach, Host of the Create a Life that is Beautiful Podcast and qualified Theta Healer supporting her community to find inner peace, clarity & fulfilment through aligning with their purpose, embracing their feminine essence and creating a life that is beautiful to them. Empowering her clients to draw from both their masculine and feminine she created her signature online course, Embrace Your Feminine Essence, to teach you how to reconnect with your creative power, listen to your inner voice and develop a supportive lifestyle & mindset that allows your body, mind & soul to thrive.

Leticia was once a lawyer, she has since moved to London, set up her Life Coaching business and teaches how to have space and bring feminine essence into your life.

About Leticia

Prior to this work, Leticia worked in the legal industry for 10 years. She was a qualified & practising lawyer in Sydney, Australia before deciding to move to London to find her purpose. At this time, she felt completely lost & alone, however with dedication, trust & surrender she was able to create a meaningful career, business & life doing what truly lights up her soul. It is Leticia's mission to support as many people as possible find work or create a business they also love & she believes understanding our feminine essence, including our cyclical nature as women is the missing ingredient.

“Each time I go back to Sydney, I find it really difficult because the environment is more difficult than willpower.”

— Leticia Ringe

When coming home...

Emotions and differences Leticia faced - Frustration and feeling out of alignment, sometimes feels angry but also feels joy, fun happy grateful and appreciative. She describes it as a whirlwind.
What had changed for Leticia - She had changed quite a lot and been more involved in personal and spiritual development. Finds it really difficult when returning to Sydney as she knows that environments is more powerful than willpower. Sometimes she reverts to old habits and patterns. Difficult to reconcile the person who she is now with the person who she once was.
Biggest stress - The constant whirlwind of emotions on the opposite end of the spectrum.
How Leticia supported herself - Grounds herself, Meditation practice, practice her usual rituals (appreciation, intuition journals, ways to set up and close her day)
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

There is a whole other world out there and its so important to see difference.
Importance of removing yourself from your environment to see how you might change and grow.
Look at space as an investment in yourself and be able to create that on your travels.

Advise to herself for returning home - Appreciate as much as possible the time she had on her travels but honour and respect how she is feeling in the now and give herself plenty of space.

“You take a lot of things for granted, but there are a lot of ways of doing things and sometimes it takes a trip to realise that.”

— Leticia Ringe

Fostering resilience, gratitude and independence during travels with Rowena Mabbott.

Rowena is a Life Coach and writer and was bitten by the travel bug early with her first round-the-world trip at age eleven. Since then she has travelled to attend school in the US, lived and worked in the UK, travelled through Europe and Africa. Rowena loves planning family travel and is now committed to ensuring her two boys are also bitten by the travel bug.

Rowena stepped out of her comfort zone and begun to form her independence. She now helps others through difficult transitions.

About Rowena

As a 16-year-old, Rowena attended school in the midwest of the US over Thanksgiving & Christmas. Then, as an 18-year old she worked as a housemistress in an English boarding school for 12 months on a GAP year, travelling through the UK and Europe on weekends and during the school holidays.

Both experiences tested Rowena's resilience and broadened her view of the world putting her out of her comfort zone and living with people she either barely knew or who were complete strangers. That alone was an adjustment. Rowena also became much more aware of how fortunate and grateful she was to live where she does

“Travelling is really different and it’s amazing but its also quite a good reminder about how fortunate we are that we don’t have to have that experience of living in one space and not know anything about anywhere else.”

— Rowena Mabbott

When coming home...

Emotions Rowena faced - She felt lonely and alone with no friends. She felt like she didn't fit in anywhere. She felt uncomfortable and a sense of longing to head back to the UK.
What changed for Rowena - Willing to meet other people (and her how people) and put your self out there. Being friendly and opening conversations.
Biggest stress - No money and being a complete dependant with no job to return to. Fostering new and old friendships back home.
How Rowena used her mindset - Used mantras like "you can do this." and "it's not so bad." Knowing that she was stronger than she thought she was because of her travelling experiences. Feeling grateful for her family and living in Australia.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

You never know someone else's story and not to judge people based on your own assumptions.
Change is a constant but we can choose how we approach it.
Travelling is the best way to learn about yourself.

Advise to herself for returning home - Don't stress out, it will all work out. Give yourself time, find your people and it will all fall into place.

“Everybody has got a story and unless you take the time to say hello and greet them, you might not know it.”

— Rowena Mabbott

The one thing to do if you feel in a funk.

There are many things you can do if your struggling with the transitions, that in itself can be overwhelming. But undeniably the most important area of focus is your mindset. You must go to work on levelling up your mindset To create a conscious awareness around your thoughts and start to take control and own what you are thinking about so, if need be you can start to change it.

What do you do if you're feeling stuck, lost or feeling in a funk after your travels.

“Change the way you look at things and the way you look at things change”

— Wayne Dyer

What do you do?

How do you level up your mindset, Change your state and create new beliefs for yourself?

If you are constantly feeling sad, upset, confused, lost or frustrated with certain areas of your life, it is worth looking at what your thoughts are creating around those areas and begin making changes. There are many ways you can start to tap into your mind and create new behaviours and patterns. Ultimately you need to get yourself into alignment.

4 practices to get into alignment

Meditation / Mind awareness
Visualisation
Conscious creation and showing up as you want to be (taking inspired action)
Movement

Final Thoughts

If you are feeling in a funk after returning home from travel or any other challenging situation, start by looking at your mindset. Ask yourself these questions...

What thoughts am I thinking that are making me feel this way?
How do I want to feel?
How can I change my state, at this very moment, to make me feel the way I want to, what can I do that will make me feel joy?

Consciously start to take control and reprogram your mind to a place that serves you better so you can start feeling in alignment.

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Abby Lewtas 25/8/18 Abby Lewtas 25/8/18

Stop pursuing happiness and start living it now.

So many people lead themselves to believe that happiness (success, joy, love) is in the future and they become addicted to chasing that feeling. How would you know if you're pursuing happiness instead of living it. Think about these questions...

Life is about the journey, not the destination. Cure destination addiction and the PURSUIT of happiness.

“Beware of destination addiction, a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job or with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”

— Robert Holden

Are you PURSUING happiness or are you actually LIVING it?

Is there always a 'pinnacle event' on your calendar that you are looking forward too more so than anything else?
Do you always feel busy?
After a big exciting event in your life, do you fall into a mild sense of depression that you can't shake?
Do you have so many plans, forecasts, projections about what you want for your future, but you're not enjoying the process of bringing them to life?

Falling into these ways of thinking and living can be so easy especially if we are not aware that we are doing so. You must learn to stop placing everything that makes you happy in your future and outside of your control.

How can you cure destination addiction and the PURSUIT of happiness?

I'll be the first person to tell you that I still fall into the destination addiction trap from time to time. As with any addiction, I believe it all begins with regaining control of your mindset. So Here are some actions that I have applied to my life to help me feel happy NOW!

Apply personal daily practices to help get present. E.g. Active stretching routine, meditation, exercise, get into nature.
Think and FEEL about what in your life excites you right NOW?
Tune in to what is actually going on for you in your life right now.
Create awareness around your thoughts and actively choose a positive mindset for yourself. Choose to feel happy for no reason.
Stop placing your happiness in things external to yourself...your relationship, your job or your next exciting holiday. Just create it now - it is a choice.
Consciously set your day up for happiness and success.

Remember you always have a choice on how you show up. Your situation in life may not be picture perfect or your ideal. Let go of that mindset and start focusing in on your life and how you can be and feel happy now.

Drop the idea that happiness and success is something that will come to you at the end of the road, the top of the mountain, when the championship rolls around when you reach that goal, that next holiday or you finally nail that job you wanted.

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Abby Lewtas 11/8/18 Abby Lewtas 11/8/18

Why you should never stop travelling.

The world has so much to offer...

Travel continually teaches us to grow and evolve. I say continually because sometimes we don't learn the lessons the first time round, or we don't fully pick them up and adopt them, or we lose them.

The world has so much to offer so here are 5 reasons why you should never stop travelling.

“Travelling is the only thing you buy that makes your richer.”

The world has so much to offer...

Travel continually teaches us to grow and evolve. I say continually because sometimes we don't learn the lessons the first time round, or we don't fully pick them up and adopt them, or we lose them.

Common lessons and learnings that people say they have gained from travel are to have an open perspective on life, how to be flexible, adaptable and capable of doing things you thought you couldn't do, how to be resourceful and look within rather than outside yourself to get something done and that travel teaches us that life is to be enjoyed and to choose an adventure.

5 reasons to never stop travelling

Travelling is unknown, NEW and thats exciting….There is always a new place to go, new people to meet and new cultures to experience.
Travelling helps you to continually dive into curiosity and playfulness.
Travelling is fun, rich and creates lasting memories.
Travel disrupts the mundane routine
Finally (might sum up the last 4 points) Travelling offers us an opportunity for growth, learnings, lessons and expansion.

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Abby Lewtas 28/7/18 Abby Lewtas 28/7/18

Are you glorifying your travel memories?

How do you look back on your travel memories? The common thread is that you remember the good times. Most of the time, you forget the rest. The seemingly ‘bad’ and ‘challenging’ times turn into moments of ‘overcoming challenges’ and you look upon these with a positive outlook. On occasions I believe you glorify these memories. Making these memories seem even more amazing than they actually were, attaching the strongest and most amazing emotions to them.

The unrealistic stories and emotions we connect to travel to make it seem 'better' than where our life is at right now!

“Never let your feelings get in the way of seeing things as they truely are.”

How do you look back on your travel memories?

The common thread is that you remember the good times. Most of the time, you forget the rest. The seemingly ‘bad’ and ‘challenging’ times turn into moments of ‘overcoming challenges’ and you look upon these with a positive outlook.

On occasions I believe you glorify these memories. Making these memories seem even more amazing than they actually were, attaching the strongest and most amazing emotions to them.

The reason is this is important to RECOGNISE is that there are some instances, such as Reverse Culture Shock, experiencing Post Travel Blues or your in a time where your unable to travel but you want to...maybe its a stage of life that your in so it can be unhealthy to look at our memories this way. Making us feel worse about our present situation.

Thinking of travels or any situations for that matter, can lead to “glorification” to the point we envy our past.

SO...Perhaps nothing good and nothing bad?I believe that in life you experience emotions 50% what you label ‘positive’ and 50% what you label ‘negative.’

The opposite is also true. You can also dramatise the negativity of a situation. Stating how awful and horrible it was and deep diving into these emotions. Painting this time in a far worse light than it actually was

It's up to you how you see a situation, look at what you gained from it? The challenge that you faced, the wonderful time that you had. Just don't over glorify it and make it something that it wasn't. Especially if your working through a tough stage of your life, it will only make things more challenging for you.