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A happy aquarious💛 thank you all for all the birthday wishes and celebrations🥰💛💛🙏🏼
08/02/2024

A happy aquarious💛 thank you all for all the birthday wishes and celebrations🥰💛💛🙏🏼

Ah friend, but if not now, when?When will you ever be ready enough, pretty enough, whatever enough to feel deservingOf t...
23/01/2024

Ah friend, but if not now, when?
When will you ever be ready enough, pretty enough, whatever enough to feel deserving
Of the life you want, the space to dream, the love you crave
Change is hard, changing once mindset, image of self and all of that, is even harder
But I kept asking myself that, if not now, when?
I took all my savings that I was supposed to use for a home
Uprooted my life for a dream that I coul build a life I want to be 100% present in
Learning to live from the heart is the hardest thing I've tried to learn so far in my life
Also the strangest because it doesn’t have a clear end goal... or at least not one that I can picture
And yet, it is the most gratifying thing I've done for myself
I can literally see the changes happening
Feel the space I am creating within
Everything is shifting, there is no going back from this and for that I am eternally grateful 🙌🏼💛

Always on the outside looking in or on the inside wanting out. It's always been like that. Conforming is a nightmare but...
19/01/2024

Always on the outside looking in or on the inside wanting out. It's always been like that. Conforming is a nightmare but also, to some extent, the premis of being part of most contexts.
Don't know if it is the dilemma of my aquarious sun, being born and raised with one foot in different cultures or simply my clandestino heart.
Perhaps the lifestyle of doesn’t help with feeling rooted in a place but it is the only thing that nourishes my soul.
Still looking for that perfect balance of belonging and freedom, community and independence.
Can you relate?

Photos from a day with .gente_tours

Boa vida com boa gente✨️Every time I go out to sea with Ruben and his people I learn something new. The spirit of Ubuntu...
08/01/2024

Boa vida com boa gente✨️
Every time I go out to sea with Ruben and his people I learn something new. The spirit of Ubuntu. More than just a catch phrase, a way of living.

In academic terms I think we would call what they do implemented sustainability. Still having a thesis to write on this journey I tried discussing it with Ruben.

He laughed and said "But Julia, to us this is normal! This is just how we are, what is mine is yours and what is yours is mine." Or as he usually expresses it "Aqui não falta nada." which loosly translates into 'Here we miss nothing♡' An expression of abundence.

I ask him how it is to run a business with that mentality. With the biggest smile he says that he will show me when I come back. "Come stay with me and my family, you will see. You will miss for nothing. Everything we want the earth provides."

The way he speaks makes him the most abundent person I know. I want to learn that. Perhaps he is right when he says it has to be lived in order to be understood. Once again I am faced with a concept I can’t intellectualize my way into. It has to be felt.

With only a few more days left on my two month stay in Tofo I am starting to feel ready to wrap it up. I am missing Maputo and excited for everything that I have planned. But the connections I have made here makes it easy to feel that I want to come back. Who would have thought that in the beginning?😂😂😂

Back to solo traveling shenanigans in Tofo💫Slow traveling tiny places is magic in many ways. It can also cause boredom! ...
02/01/2024

Back to solo traveling shenanigans in Tofo💫

Slow traveling tiny places is magic in many ways. It can also cause boredom! Here I got so bored I thought I could paint (a once every third year occurrance) and thought I'd try being the subject of my new found interest: photography.

I saw a reel yesterday talking about how my generation was the last generation to experience natural boredom due to us being children before the smartphone era. I used to HATE being bored, could even go to mom and cry about it. The cool thing was that I,almost every time within a matter of time, always found something to do. Even if it was just on my own, something would come up, an imaginary game, letting my mind wander and dream myself into another world, creating something with my hands, or going outside to see what the Univerese would bring me.

As a kid, my world consisted of a handful of people on an area no bigger than my block... and yet the worlds I would create, on my own and together with other bored kids, were absolutely amazing! They would definitly give the matrix movie a run for their money. Anyways, the reel I saw yesterday spoke about this, that we don’t yet comprehend the extent smartphones and not experiencing silence and boredom, what it will do to us and the world we are creating.

It made me think back to this day specifically, and this period in general where I spent two months in Tofo's low season. My internet was once again finished from mindless AND mindful scrolling but instead of getting up to buy more data I let the boredom overcome me. I lay in bed for over an hour before my brain started suggesting and creating things for me to do.

These photos were about a month before the festivals started happening for me. Before I started to dare to think that this platform could be something. I am fully convinced now that the boredom, silence and solitude I experienced the first six months of solo traveling were pivotal for what came next. I found out I am no Picasso hah😅 but I realize that in the grander scheme of things that is completely irrelevant. I had started to actually create things from within out in the material world and THAT, that felt amazing!💛

The Grinch captured in it's natural habitat😂🙌🏼💫
26/12/2023

The Grinch captured in it's natural habitat😂🙌🏼💫

I am a firm believer that the Universe mirrors our inner state and process. If that is true, the first three months shou...
21/12/2023

I am a firm believer that the Universe mirrors our inner state and process. If that is true, the first three months should be categorized as messy(!) or perhaps better titled as the 'catalyzer phase'. The next three months is probably best described as passive/still... or maybe the learning processes of surrender and non attachement.

On the seventh month, my phase of trial and error began, filled with personal face palms and very public face plants😅 Tofo served as a soft blanket for me to stumble within. Now, with some hindsight, I can see how perhaps this tiny place, with it's endless beaches, felt safe enough for me to start... trying to act from a heart space and letting that lead.

Since that seventh month, which marked the begining of so many firsts, I have many times wondered why here in Mozambique? Why now? How come this inner journey of self-exploration and discovery is happening?

One part I am sure has to do with that I was ready. Or perhaps it started with the desire to be ready to live a life in alignment with my highest self. Asking the Universe to guide me to a life led from my heart, to live and know my purpose here on earth, is what actually made me ready for everything that came next?

Why here though, in Mozambique out of all place on earth?? I think it is a layered answer with many reasons but the main one I know is because it is not home. I dont think I would have ever been able to start a blog or have the level of vulnerability and transparancy that I do online if I were living in Sweden.

Perhaps because we know the contexts we comer from, know every little norm and expectation people and society has on us, it is harder to break free. I am starting to discover that alot of what was holding me back, was my own internalisation of social codes and rules that kept me small.

I think Moz in many ways is so brutally different from where I come from that it shook something in me. But also, as a foreign traveller you will always be a bit different, there is no hiding from that fact. I've realized that this fact gives me incredible freedom to truly be who I am since the society I am visiting don't hold me to the same standards as locals. Thoughts?

And then there was only me! The original crew I came with have continued on their merry ways and now musicians have take...
17/12/2023

And then there was only me! The original crew I came with have continued on their merry ways and now musicians have taken over Tofo.

I wake to the tunes coming from my neighbour Matchote's bungalow. He is the best saxophone player I have ever had the pleasure of hearing live.

I am in wonder of those that create. In awe of those that have the ability to bring what's within into something that is out here in the world. I also want to do that.

One jam session in Tofo, one of the professional musicians gets off stage, walks across the dining room and asks me to join them on stage. I immidiatly feel the heat in my cheeks and rapidly decline.

I used to love performing when I was younger. Me and my friends would put on shows for the neighbourhood and when I got older I auditioned and participated in musicals and shows. I love that world. I love that part of me, the charisma, the glow that just shines from within.

But somewhere along the way I started getting embarassed, not just from performingfrom feeling seen. I look at the musician who I have just turned down. He is still there, still looking at me with his hand stretched out.

"It is time." He insists and I wonder how he knows. But apparently something in me agrees because a minute later I find myself on stage. I am sweating like a pig and I don't think my lungs know how to breathe anymore.

I close my eyes and for the nexts 7.5 minutes I sing. I haven't sung in over 4 years and my voice is lower than I remember it, older. I have never improvised before. What comes out is a mixture of existing songs and giberish, in languages I know and don’t know 😂

When we round off the song I feel both horrified and amazed. Horrified about everything I felt went wrong. Amazed by the fact that my soul absolutly LOVED it. I had forgotten that I too am a creative.

It really is time, I reflect as I go to bed. It is time to get over my embaressment and give space for this creative side to express itself. I want to be creative. I think I might be a creator🥹💛

Inga is leaving but not before we had the chance to go to sea with .gente_tours 💛✨️ What a person you are!! Ah I love lo...
13/12/2023

Inga is leaving but not before we had the chance to go to sea with .gente_tours 💛✨️ What a person you are!! Ah I love love love soul collisions like these! Love you to the moon and back! Safe travels💛

Ah the photos this place offers!!🤯😍😍 Is this place even real?!
08/12/2023

Ah the photos this place offers!!🤯😍😍 Is this place even real?!

Context matters! If you take a minute to look at these photos you might understand why the decision to stay, to continue...
06/12/2023

Context matters! If you take a minute to look at these photos you might understand why the decision to stay, to continue my journey, was the only reasonable choice for me despite the sh$t storm I described to you earlier this week.

Context matters! Where you are and how you feel where you are is essential for life quality. Perhaps especially so when you are going through it, whatever it is.

Personally, I felt it wise to stay in an environment that was so beautiful. If given the choice, why not choose the most beautiful place on earth on to have an existential crisis on? At least then, the beauty of the world is written on your nose even when you struggle to see it in your life in general.

Furthermore, Tofo allowed me space to breathe. And with every breath I could feel my need for creativity and movement grow. An energy I had not been connected to in years! They say that it is in stillness that the true magic happens. Knowing what I know now, I can only agree💛

10 frames does not even begin to cover the beauty of this trip. This day marked my 6 months & 1 day traveling Southern A...
03/12/2023

10 frames does not even begin to cover the beauty of this trip. This day marked my 6 months & 1 day traveling Southern Africa. Realizing that 6 months had passed and that they had been some of the hardest months of my life made me want to cry and laugh at the same time. Life can be so painfully full of irony sometimes. The day these photos were taken marked something else too, it was the day that I realized I could ask for grace. And give grace. To me and to others and to the process.

During the current of my first 6 months traveling I had been broken hearted and severly ill. I lost my passport, my visa, an internship and a buttload of money. For ten weeks I sat at a hostel without the ability to take action, feeling completely at the mercy of strangers in a country I did not know and where nobody knew me. A friend carefully asked me, are you sure you don't want to come home?

I nodded. I was sure. I knew deep within that I would be equally lost at home, maybe more so because in the mundane I don't allow myself the same freedom to wander (and wonder). I had asked to be shown my purpose in life and here I was being given ample opportunities to try out everything my heart desired.

I love these photos so much. Now that I look back at them I can clearly see how the process of allowing myself to become a creator started manifesting here. It is beautiful because at the time, I had no clue. Seldom have I felt more lost. And yet, the prayer of grace came with the answer of joy and beauty. I started doing everything that my intuition immidiatly said YES to. I started creating. Carefully. Quietly. But yet, I could feel the movement within transforming and shifting something.

At 4am the minibus came and picked us up. Road trip! I was grumpy the whole way through😅 Where to? I hardly knew, I was ...
01/12/2023

At 4am the minibus came and picked us up. Road trip! I was grumpy the whole way through😅 Where to? I hardly knew, I was just happy to be included🥂 After 12hours together on a sweaty bus, the cohesion amongst us random grown folks was like that of a kids summer camp.

It was April and I had just spent the past weeks locked up at a hostel without being able to go out. To say I was starving for a change of scenery was an understatement😂💃🏽

Breathe into the emotions that are alive within you💛Right now it is pretty overwhelming and chaotic. But you my sister r...
27/11/2023

Breathe into the emotions that are alive within you💛

Right now it is pretty overwhelming and chaotic. But you my sister reminded me that it is part of the process, my process. You said my doubts are valid and it is ok to not always be brave. You said it is okay if I want to go home and I was reminded of the imense love that holds me.

Everything is under reconstruction and I am not gonna lie, right now the future feels very far away. So thank you my sisters for grounding me, reminding me that we hold space for each other and that asking for help is an act of love.

I know I am far from alone in going through it right now so I wanted to share. Doing something completly new is scary and often uncertain but it is the one choice I will keep choosing. Thanks for holding my hand when it feels scary, thanks for giving me space to grow💛

It's always a good vibe when you two are around💃🏽🥰🥳 See you in Zambia!My favourite photo from this festival is also my o...
22/11/2023

It's always a good vibe when you two are around💃🏽🥰🥳 See you in Zambia!

My favourite photo from this festival is also my only one😂😂 It was too much to think I'd be able to do content creation, photography and participate as a team of one. If you have any with me in it, please send it through🙏🏼💛

I am also somewhat putting out feelers if there is anyone crazy enough to build this with me? I need a team. A team that wants this life almost as much as I do. Drop me a dm if it speaks to you and we will take it from there🥂


A new blog post is out my people! And this one is a real special one🥹  During my time in Moz I have had the honor to get...
15/11/2023

A new blog post is out my people! And this one is a real special one🥹 During my time in Moz I have had the honor to get to know the young artist .musico 's. A few months ago we started looking into a possible collaboration and today we are here with the launch of not only his EP but a whole project😍 Today's read is his story and if you feel called to it, we also invite you to be part of his future💫 Read all about it in the blog, link in bio💛

In a country where nothing works the way I am used to, I often find myself both feeling and being treated like a child. ...
12/11/2023

In a country where nothing works the way I am used to, I often find myself both feeling and being treated like a child. For an independent lady like myself it is HARD! Frustrating like hell to feel so little agency and control like I do here. But underneath that fruststration I can also feel a huge amount of unlearning and redifining getting done. How do I relate to others and how do I limit myself in that regard?

There is something very humbling being in a different culture than your own and being given the grace to be unknowing. In Mozambique there is a crazy level of inter dependency amongst the people that is the social norm in society. Estamos juntos, (crappily translates to) we are in it together, is probably the most used phrase here. And not just said, but implemented. People show up for each other here, maybe not always to their best capacity, perhaps not always with the best results. But they do show up.

So just like the child in the picture, I am learning to lean in, embrace and fall into the safety of knowing I am part of a collective. Without ignoring the shadow sides of comunity mentality, I can testify to how extreamly healing it is for me that comes from the oposit mindset, to exist here. It is like accessing a completely different nuance of what it can feel like to be human.

Cape Town light doing its thing💫
06/11/2023

Cape Town light doing its thing💫

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31/10/2023

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After my first month traveling it was like my body started to understand that this new way of living, of doing every day...
18/10/2023

After my first month traveling it was like my body started to understand that this new way of living, of doing every day life, is not going away. So it started to relax.

Five months into my journey I was so frustrated with my own pasiveness. I mean, I did not move across the earth to sleep more?! But then it dawned on me, maybe that was exactly what I needed. I started letting go of my internalized demand to always be a productive member of society.

At first there was nothing. Just more sluggishness, old emotions and traumas resurficing. To not judge or try to change my passive being at that point was CHALLENGING! It went against everything I had learnt of what it means to be a person. The unlearning of this is still on going but goodness is it worth it!!

Eventually the ideas started coming back to me. Eventually things started to feel possible again, reachable even. The curiosity and drive were at the front seat. But I think I have the silence to thank for it. The silence and the time I gave to myself, that I allowed myself to be in.

To say I enjoyed it would be a lie. Frankly it sucked. But I am grateful for it... today.

I got introduced to Bolo do Amor right when I first got to Maputo. Bolodoamor is really called Gil but got the nickname ...
18/09/2023

I got introduced to Bolo do Amor right when I first got to Maputo. Bolodoamor is really called Gil but got the nickname Cake of Love when he was working at a bakery. In the begining I found it a really odd nickname but as time went on I could not think of a person more suited for it! Bolo simply is a cake of love, an explosion of joy!

When we first met we had no language in common. I mostly spoke spanish and Bolo made his best attempt to understand me. One day he asks "You are always saying me encata, me encanta. What does it mean?" I laugh because it really is an expression that I use all the time, I just had no idea it did not translate in Portuguese😂😅 "It means I love/I adore." I explain and we both laugh.

Since that day, my nickname is Me encanta, I love. It feels like such a beautiful affirmation. Most people here have names with significance. Another friend of mine explained his name as the essence of who he is, the intention his parents had for his life. With this in mind I give thanks that mine got to be an intention of love and not Purification like my granma...😂❤️❤️

Aqui não falta nada💚 exept for maybe a clue... A clue of what I'm supposed to be doing here😂Right now I'm trying a littl...
17/09/2023

Aqui não falta nada💚 exept for maybe a clue... A clue of what I'm supposed to be doing here😂

Right now I'm trying a little bit of text editing, last month I got started on building a web page for somebody else and the other day a friend pitched a cultural ngo type project. Maybe the point isn't to know but rather allow myself to try the things that I intuitivly feel yes to. To try new things, old things or maybe be really revolutionary and do nothing at all. I mean I gave myself this time to figure things out, not just my purpose but what I want my everyday to look like.. what kind of energies, routines, people and values do I want to meet on a daily basis?

Traveling solo is often filled with contradictions. Never ever have I, during such a short intense time, met and connect...
11/09/2023

Traveling solo is often filled with contradictions. Never ever have I, during such a short intense time, met and connected with so many amazing people. And not just that, but people that come in and catalyze me onto the path I am longing for. People that I know I will remember for the longest time, whos affirming words, brilliant minds and loving eyes have woven like at cape of courage around me.

Yet, when something does happen...Like that time when I got stuck at a border completely alone and was forced to stay the whole night in a migration officers sleeping quarter. Or like the time I didn't dare to go to the bathroom after a stranger at a pool party kissed my hip, afraid that he would try to take more liberties. Or, like I wrote in my last blog post, when I felt manipulated into letting a friend stay the night and ended up sitting outside my room for an hour getting eaten by mosquitos contemplating the social consequences of rejecting him... yeah, when something DOES happen while traveling solo, I have never felt more alone. The lack of longterm relationships, community and context makes the risks feel even greater than if I was in my own context.

On the negative side, it really sucks. Realising how alone I am in risky or uncomfortable situations is terrifying. Some times, I just crawl up in a ball and cry. It can cause such a paralysing fear that I find myself unable to even think. On the positive side, never have I been confronted by my codependent tendencies as much as I have when I am solo traveling. Never have I had to learn to stand up for myself as I have on this trip. Never have I been so strengthened in my trust in myself.

Read the whole text on the blog, link in bio✨️

I know I've been quiet on the blog since Luju festival last month. There are so many things happening right now that I h...
05/09/2023

I know I've been quiet on the blog since Luju festival last month. There are so many things happening right now that I had to take a step back and look at where I want to go. I am so grateful to you all who are reading and following my journey here while I find my path in life🙏🏼 Everyone is always saying that you need to nishe down in order to have a successful blog but I think that I am going to take full advantage of being new in the biz. Continue doing everything I want and telling you guys about it, the good and the bad, no censorship. I love the contrast of my own story intertwining with others that I had the privillige to interview. Life is truly grand! I am not about to make it smaller to fit a marketable mold🙌🏼💃🏽 All I know is that there will be a whole lot more of dancing, festivals, personal failures as well as victories and, of course, loads of amazing people✨️ Check out the blog if you havent, link in bio😘

Maputo, where the sun shines even on the cloudy days🌻
27/08/2023

Maputo, where the sun shines even on the cloudy days🌻

The new blog post is out and it is filled with the wisdom of two amazing women  and  ✨️ We talk about daring to walk the...
22/08/2023

The new blog post is out and it is filled with the wisdom of two amazing women and ✨️ We talk about daring to walk the path of the heart, creativity but also the relationship to self and what the music industry needs to make more space for women. It was an absolute delight and blessing to sit down and talk to these inspiring creators. Link is in bio, I hope you enjoy💃🏽💃🏽

Some more highlights from Luju festival✨️ There is nothing like a smiling devil to get your weekend going!              ...
19/08/2023

Some more highlights from Luju festival✨️ There is nothing like a smiling devil to get your weekend going!

The new blog post is out! It was my great honor and privilige talking with  at the Luju festival. She is an activist che...
16/08/2023

The new blog post is out! It was my great honor and privilige talking with at the Luju festival. She is an activist chef who uses indegenous seeds and techniques to teach us about how to live in rhythm with and with respect to Mother Earth. Talking with her was an absolute dream! I left feeling both hopeful, inspired and strengthened by our conversation and her imense energy. I must admit, I didn't want the conversation to stop. Wheather you are a foodie, a fashionista, an activist or just generaly curious about the fierce women I met at Luju festival, this is the post to read. Link in bio✨️

Blessed with perfect curls😌
08/08/2023

Blessed with perfect curls😌

I had an amazing time at Luju festival in Eswatini😍 As soon as I have recovered a little I will tell you all about it✨️ ...
06/08/2023

I had an amazing time at Luju festival in Eswatini😍 As soon as I have recovered a little I will tell you all about it✨️
A special shoutout to the designers who helped me create an outfit on the spot when my planned outfits decided to stay put in South Africa friday morning😅🥰

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