Thoughts On Hitting 70 and My 2 Year Steemit Journey - Part 1 ( Cos I Got A lot To Say)

They say that things come to you just when you need them, and time has shown me this over and over again.

Two years ago a friend of mine came to visit me, he had come to the community with his family to spend the winter and also to escape the pressure of CPS, who were threatening to take his daughter off him if he did not enrol her in school.

There is a huge homeschooling community here, so he came to the right place. Both him and his partner were telling me about their situation, when he mentioned the support he was getting from this amazing online platform. A platform where you could earn some currency for the content that you posted on there.

He was of course talking about Steemit and he would go on to create @familyprotection with @canadian-coconut to help other people around the world who were being terrorized by the Child Protection Services in their country.

The more he told me about this platform and the amazing support he got from the community on there, the more intrigued I became. I am all about community, about bringing people together and helping to support and heal one another.

So I was very lucky to have @markwhittam show me the ropes, when I decided I wanted to get involved and he supported me a lot in my early days on here. I wrote mostly about birth, sacred celebrations and homeschooling in those days. It felt great to be able to share my life's passion's with everyone and to connect with so many amazing people who were stretched right around the world.

The @ecotrain community, caught my eye very early on, I was so inspired by their driver @eco-alex and the content that the passengers were creating.

I emailed Alex asking him if I could become a part of their community and I was so excited when he said yes. I remember the first time, one of my posts was featured in the EcoTrain magazine, it was a proud moment and by far one of the highlights of my time on here. I knew I had connected with my tribe.

Community has always been the most important thing for me about steemit, sure it was nice when steem went to the moon. At that time it enabled me to get my girls passports and make a trip to Ireland to spend some time with my sister. But the friendships and family I have made on here have supported me and lifted me in some of my darkest hours and that is not something you could ever put a price on.

There is something magical about connecting with people from all over the world, sharing your stories, your art, your passions. Connecting with folk from so many different walks of life, I have learnt so much, I have laughed and cried and I have been and continue to be so inspired by so many of you.

Being on here, has given me this amazing opportunity to share my life and to help spread my message, a message which is all about living a more natural life and re connecting with nature , reconnecting with our natural selves. I have always loved to write, but since becoming a mother, I never made the time to do so.

Over the last 2 years I have posted almost every day, sharing my life, my knowledge and my poetry. As a result my writing has improved and I rediscovered the healing that comes with expressing yourself through words.

This came at a time in my life, where everything that I knew, was about to be thrown into disarray. But it was not just my words that helped in my process of healing, it was also the many, many supportive words that the steemit community wrote to me.

All of those words, all of that support, carried me and continues to carry me, so to all of you amazing folk that have reached out to me. Thank you x.

To be continued................