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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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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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Autumn is for letting go and receiving

Like the trees that let go of their leaves right now, the energy of autumn supports releasing and letting go in our lives as well. Last year in September I had to step back and let go of everything I thought I was meant to be doing including this business. I suddenly had no idea what was to come. I felt my body release years of exhaustion and nervous system impulses that related to trauma behavior like survival and pushing forward. And at the same time I started…
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