<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Kip Ashlynn wrote</title><author_name>Kip Ashlynn (npub1hs…hly9q)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1hspwpfkq7qddnj6h52c03muzgx79l7teeez99n57ys77g4m4vujs3hly9q</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>Today is my birthday, I am 41 years old.&#xA;&#xA;When I was 39 I realized I was unhappy and feeling trapped in a place without many friends or a sense of community, where everything was so expensive that even with my high paying job I was paycheck to paycheck. Where even the environment felt hostile and strange. I had been trying to make it work for years, and I finally said to myself it&#39;s not working. I need to make some big changes.&#xA;&#xA;I quit the job. I moved back across the country. I spent a year doing the Artist&#39;s Way, meditating and listening to my intuition, and living on faith.&#xA;&#xA;It didn&#39;t feel good, because change never does. It&#39;s been a lot of discomfort and confronting fears about maybe I blew up an ok life for a pipe dream of a better one. On my 40th birthday I was unemployed, homeless, and without any clue how it was all going to work out. &#xA;&#xA;But now I have a house with a big deck and a yard for less than half the rent I was paying in the Seattle area for a tiny apartment. I have a job that pays less, but is fully remote and I work with really nice, wonderful people. I lead a community group which is already huge and active even though we aren&#39;t even a year old. I have so many friends that when I got hurt this week I&#39;ve had people checking in on me constantly.&#xA;&#xA;I am feeling blessed and lucky. Things don&#39;t work out in our plans, but in God&#39;s plan. And as such it works out even better than we could imagine.&#xA;&#xA;I am glad that I was brave enough to make big changes. I am so excited for what the future has in store for me 🥰</html></oembed>