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Reflecting on 10 months of being a digital nomad

I’m reflecting back on 10 months of being a digital nomad and preparing to end this chapter of my life in the coming weeks/months. Those 10 months changed everything for me, and I’m so grateful to myself that I did this. I am a different person than the one who left Germany last August. I have released so much more trauma and pain that I didn’t even know was still there. My body is different because of it. I have released decades of negativity and disappointment that I…
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Successes of 3 months as a digital nomad

fully terminated & paid off my German health insurance fully terminated & paid off my German liability insurance paid off all other open bills reduced costs from 2.100€ in August in Germany to an average of 1.100€ in Sept./Oct./Nov. in Bulgaria and North Macedonia (that still includes several 100€/month paying off bills) Did my 2021 income tax statement got 3 new Healing Session clients and one new Reading client had 2 months of about 200€ more income than costs Reduced the use of my overdraft which will reduce…
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I’ve been trying to fit in for far too long. I’m just letting go now.

I’ve been trying to fit in for far too long. I’m just letting go now. I’ve always associated trying to fit in with people and society, but in yesterday’s osteopathy session I realized that I had been trying to fit in this country and my family of origin. I got up from the treatment table saying “If I want to belong to Germany and the family I was born into, I have to bend over backwards. I have done that far too long. I can’t do that anymore.”…
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Leaving My Country To Find Balance

In November it became clear to me that I was nearing the end of a 5 year phase of transitioning from a separation into having built a new life and business and financial self-sufficiency. I even suddenly had my wish granted of having my own flat after the flat share ended and I was in the flat on my own. I felt that I needed the space and empty space and at the same time it was challenging for me at first to expand my energy. I was…
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