My Life as The Nourished Sensitive: Travel Diary, May–June 2025

A season of magic, movement, and coming home to myself.

Hi sweet soul friends,

I wanted to try something a little different today. This post is a glimpse into my personal travel diary—part story, part reflection, part open-hearted musing. ✍️

Over the past few months, I’ve been on the move… caring for pets and homes, myself, wandering gardens, sipping tea, visiting rivers and galleries, and collecting moments that feel like little soul whispers. Along the way, I’ve found myself returning to something essential: the quiet magic of simply being alive and paying attention.

Sharing these intimate moments feels like an extension of The Nourished Sensitive—because this isn’t just a business, it’s a living practice, a growing ecosystem. It’s an embodiment of the life I have chosen and created for myself which involves moving through the world with softness, presence, and reverence for the little things and moments that shape us in ways we never could have anticipated.

My hope is that as you read my diary, you’ll feel yourself slow down a little. Breathe a little deeper. Remember something tender about your own path. Because this diary isn’t just about me—it’s a love letter to the parts of you that long for beauty, belonging, becoming, and true, uncompromising self-nourishment.

I’m so glad you’re here. 💗

Love,
Leah
The Nourished Sensitive

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Finding my way back to myself.

Experiencing profound levels of personal freedom. Sacred union of my feminine and masculine aspects. Good love, bad love. Love that glows.

Listening to a lot of Taylor, 1989. This Love, Wildest Dreams, Clean, Style.

Enriching my own life.

With visits; to the art gallery, the gardens, the jungle, the tea room, the backyard, and the river where I found a good and necessary release. I find myself feeling so good in my skin. Beauty is effortless; it comes from within.

Enriching my own life, choosing me.

Taking care of things.

Pets, homes, plants, friends, myself. Most of all, myself.
Noticing all along all the magic unfolding, and how this love always seems to come back to me. Just like the song promised.

My heart is full as we gather as friends.

Together again for Sensitive Sanctuary Circle.

This circle centered around the theme of Pura Vida—a phrase from Costa Rica that loosely translates to “pure life,” but carries a much deeper message about simplicity, presence, and joy in everyday living.

We explored what that looks like through the lens of sensitivity: how slowing down, connecting with our bodies, and being in nature can offer profound healing and regulation in a world that often feels too fast, too loud, and too much.

We share reflections.

On the grounding magic of gardening, the playful wonder of a spontaneous "bug walk," and the deep comfort of somatic practices that help us feel safe and at home in our bodies. There was space to name the grief many of us carry—the ache for a simpler, more connected way of life—and also to imagine what small acts of pure living we might weave into our everyday routines.

What does Pura Vida really mean (to me)?

Later, I find my peace underneath the magnolia tree.

Which happens to be blooming right as I'm arriving in Atlanta. A lovely synchronicity.

I'll be where I found my peace. Sitting beneath the magnolia tree.

I gaze again at the crystal my best friend Marina gave me for my 32nd birthday. The one of the angel hugging the Earth. When she gave it to me she said: “It’s you, Leah”.

Inspired by this sweet memory, I write a few words on the page asking for guidance and next steps. And sure as the breeze on my skin, and the speckled sunlight through leaves, I feel a Love enter the space.

It hugs me with the breeze and I lean in, asking it to guide me. It nudges me gently, tenderly, with so much love toward the edges; the shadows and the door to self understanding. Whispering in the back of my mind…

Openness, love everything, love everyone, and protect your heart.
Rest, take time for you, protect your energy, presence is the work.
Roots, protect your connection (to self, to loved ones, to higher self, to God).

I whisper back: message received, thank you 🙏 💗

A baby acorn falls in my lap from the oak tree above my head. It’s young, not yet mature. And yet, it has so much potential. I always take notice of these things.

Message received, thank you.

Next stop? Red Rose Era. About 6 months from now, if I had to guess. I make note, November. I feel so seen. Remembering my card pull right before leaving @selvatica_ecoretreat. It’s message? Ease worries and seek joy in everything.

I promise that I will try.

Again the whisper. It always answers back in one way or another.

Don't worry darling, you'll find your way. 🌹

Love,
Leah
The Nourished Sensitive