Dearest Clare,
Your spoken book "The Italy Dream" accompanied me over the last few weeks, a really important time on my own journey of manifesting my home. I tend to always find the right books at the right time, the right mirror for my current situation that shows me what I’m supposed to see at the moment and gives me a new piece of the puzzle.
Your story has definitely been one of those magic mirrors and it was truly the best company I could have wished for!
picture taken from @clareartista ‘s website: claregaiasophia.comFor everyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about:
The spoken book (or podcast, if you will) “The Italy Dream” in 17 chapters, lived and told by @clareartista, is a real human story.
The story of a brave woman, who tenderly looks back upon a journey, upon troublesome times and hardships, beauty and excitement, while starting a completely new life in another country. She tells about the magical journey it was to manifest her own house, how she ran into obstacles and had to deal with difficult relationships along the way.
But she also speaks about the spiritual journey that is was, how she allowed life and the house to teach her and how she gained the wisdom to now live a life in harmony.
Clare has such a wonderful way of describing the beauty she has encountered everywhere, it really opens ones eyes to the magic of Nature that can be experienced in every moment. I felt myself right there with her and I could feel her wonder, appreciation, her love for the land and the history, in her voice and words.
She talks about her experiences, both inside and outside of her, with so much clarity and awareness. It reminds me that we all have our own stories, and when experienced with consciousness, forgiveness, love and humor, they can all be a hero’s story and the most exciting thing one could ever witness.
Thank you so much, Clare, for allowing me to get to know you so intimately, to see the world through your eyes, to witness your unique human experience. It’s truly a gift. In my imagination I’ve already given you a hundred hugs and kisses, I’m sure this energy reaches you in some way 😊
I think the reason why I feel so connected to you and your story is that I’m on the same path. In a completely different way, but still the same on another level. My path looks very differently, I have different teachers, different experiences, but I too learned to receive the gifts they bring, accept the challenges, live them and gain the wisdom from them that now allows me to enjoy life more holisticly, more fully and happy, from the inside out, not the other way around.
We both seem to have arrived at a similar state of being, at similar conclusions about the fabric of the Universe and our role in it and it feels so very good to know that there is a sister out there who would know what I’m talking about when I shared my thoughts and experiences with her ^^
Your way of storytelling also inspired me a lot. It showed me another way of expressing, that I didn’t think of before.
I feel the call to share my own story, but I’m not sure yet how this is going to unfold. I know I will get there eventually and it feels you’ve given me another piece of the puzzle.
Listening to your voice and your story really made me want to meet you one day, dear Clare, and just talk and laugh and share over a cold drink in the shade of an orange tree ❤️
For everyone out there who is interested in listening to a real woman telling her real story from her heart, I highly recommend checking out "The Italy Dream" by @clareartista!
(If there are any other options and links, maybe clare can provide them in the comments 😇 @clareartista?)
Oh, dearest @anafae - you have moved me a lot by this beautiful gift of your post, your witness, and your resonating - it means everything to me! I hope we will talk more, and would love to exchange messages and connect more, if you are on Signal App? I'm there at Italy three three four, one nine six nine, three seven two🥰🌸
In the meantime, I made a Patreon post to share the full links list, but they are all available in sequence via both Spotify For Podcasters, and Fountain. I thought I'd already made a single post about this on the Hive, so thank you for reminding me to do so!
It is an honour to have my story blessed by you in this way, truly. Huge love and gratitude, and I so would love to witness your story - please do let me know when you start sharing it!!
Ah, now I found it. I updated the link to Fountain now 👍
Clare, thank you again for sharing your story so openly and intimately, I felt so connected to it and to you.
This is how it must have felt in the olden days, when people gathered around the fireplace listening to folks telling their stories ❤️
I will look into this signal app for sure. I would love to connect more 😊 I’m much more comfortable in face to face situations, but comfortable usually doesn’t get me anywhere ^^
Huge Thanks and Love and Hugs ❤️🙏😊
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You are so welcome - and I hope you will get out of your comfort zone, yes!! Signal is really a great App, and a beautiful way to keep connected more intimately in living voice with loved ones - I imagine that pushing yourself in this way to open the voice might help a lot with expressing your story, too! But I do get the discomfort about this: I had to compromise a lot with connecting online instead of face-to-face, during lockdown nonsense and as folks in the community seemed to calcify into their rigid ideas and circles: I treasure all the more now, the aligned dialogues and freedom of expression that comes with voice-images-spontaneous-living messaging!
So glad to know you and to have your loving support dearest @anafae !
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This is awesome of you. Nice to know that the news is spreading and more and more people are listening and finding value in Clare's story. I do agree that it's super relatable ( especially for creative cool 'weirdos' like us ) 😘
It came just at the right time for me, supported me in dreaming my dream even more vividly 😊
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👏 Keep Up the good work on Hive ♦️ 👏
❤️ @bhattg suggested sagarkothari88 to upvote your post ❤️
Thank you @bhattg! ❤️
A dream that is a driving force to prove that everyone has dreams in life. Like it. Thank you. Greetings.
Listening to how someone else's dream came true proves that it's possible and so worth it to keep going and to keep dreaming ❤️
I too will have to see if I have a way to check it out. I have never heard of fountain, but I have heard of spotify, even though I've never used it.
We'll see !
Sorry I’m late on this. I wish I could tear myself away from my grind easier and sit with other people’s work. I will pick this up though!
There’s a right time for everything 🤗
I missed Clare‘s initial posts about her book as well, but really enjoyed it when I felt ready.
Ooh this is amazing! I will have to check them out on spotify. Thank you for highlighting other hivers work too and sharing it with us 😊
Yes, do that! It really moved me, it's so real. not one of those super shiny and polished podcasts that we know so many of, but really down to earth and intimate. still great quality though because Clare is such a good speaker :)
!BEER