Welcome to coming home with Maura.
A space where you can join me.
In my journey.
Through my living memoir.
From my new home.
Egypt.
Take a deep breath.
And let your nervous system relax.
In 2022.
I had my first calling to go to Egypt.
I had no idea what to expect.
Or why I was going.
Now looking back.
I think it was meant to be.
As a first taste.
Of what freedom feels like.
To taste a sense of being at home within myself.
To feel a huge relief from all the expectations I had been carrying without knowing.
And to experience connections.
With like-minded people who were all moving away from their own pain of not fitting in.
After two years in Egypt,
The hub.
I came back to the Netherlands.
Not because I missed it or because I was excited to go.
But because I had another calling.
That it was time to go back.
These callings I am talking about are deep feelings inside of me that I can't ignore.
Usually I try to push them away for a while.
But they become so strong.
That it doesn't really feel.
Like a choice anymore.
I believe it's something guiding me.
Whether you call it a higher self intuition.
A spirit guide.
Or even God.
It feels big.
And undeniable.
Back in the Netherlands.
Things didn't go the way I'd hoped.
I hoped for work.
Money,
And a clear direction in life.
None of this happened.
Instead.
I had no job.
Became broke.
And everything.
Felt like a fog.
In those two years back home.
All my health issues from before started to come back.
Only this time worse.
If you want to label it,
You can call it chronic fatigue.
Combined with the kundalini rising.
You don't have to know what these things mean.
Because it doesn't matter.
Whatever I've been going through.
It was rough.
Honestly,
I wasn't sure if I could get through it.
Most days I could only lie in bed or on the couch.
As any movement would make my body shut down.
I couldn't do any sports.
I sometimes couldn't walk more than five minutes.
Well,
You get the point.
These were difficult times and without any direction or money I felt lost.
During the last two years back in the Netherlands,
I missed Egypt enormously.
But it was as if I wasn't allowed to go back.
Yet.
I needed to heal whatever needed healing.
Without money or my health.
I wasn't able to go anywhere by myself anyway.
And to be fully honest with you.
Egypt was a sensitive subject for me.
I missed it,
But the pain around a relationship I had experienced there kept me hesitant to go back.
In the last few months,
The calling started to come back.
After healing,
Crying and resting for two years,
I finally felt a small glimpse of excitement in my heart.
A feeling that Egypt was calling me again.
And I noticed the hesitation was gone.
The painful feelings around the breakup were gone.
I felt myself coming back to life.
Every day the excitement got bigger.
And I felt in my whole being.
This was meant to be.
I still didn't have much money or health.
But I knew possibilities were coming.
I knew someone was close by.
Ready to help me make that jump safely.
How I knew.
I can't really explain,
But astrology,
Intuition,
Tarot cards and visions all said the same thing.
And guess what?
Someone contacted me who I hadn't spoken to in four years.
Who turned out to be living in the exact place I felt called to move towards.
Crazy,
Right?
He helped me find a place.
That is very cheap.
So I didn't need a lot of money for an Airbnb or a hotel.
Meanwhile,
I got information.
That I was going to receive unexpected money.
Just enough money to prevent this leap of faith from ending in an immediate crash.
It felt as if the universe was saying,
Yes,
It is time.
It's so interesting how every time I get a calling,
All the puzzle pieces to make it happen start to fall into place.
I'm not fully sure yet why I'm being called back to Egypt.
But I feel a big part of me simply belongs there.
More than I belong in the Netherlands.
All I know for sure right now.
Is this.
My flight is booked.
My suitcase is packed.
Money is on its way.
A little apartment is arranged.
And I am going where I am supposed to be.
And my health,
Well.
I have faith that things will get better.
Egypt healed me physically before.
And I have faith it will heal me again.
Thank you for listening to Coming Home with Maura.
I hope you enjoyed it.
This was the first story of my living memoir.
There is more to come.
Talk to you soon.
