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Flip the Script: Feeling Lost

Andrea Hylen
6 min readNov 27, 2023

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Day Twenty-six:

Feeling lost

“When you begin to choose yourself, you will start to feel like you are in the wrong or being a “bad person” when in reality you are doing what your family generations have been ignoring.” ~Genell Gorman

Have you ever had a dream where you felt like you were falling and you woke up, startled because it felt so real? Feeling lost and not knowing where you are going next can feel like that. Untethering yourself from family and societal expectations can also feel like that.

Creating space to go into the depth of your being, you may have also touched a feeling of being lost. It is an empty space that shows up when something ends, and something is yet to begin. It can also show up when you become aware of living a life that does not reflect who you are and that awareness touches something that can feel like you are lost. Or you want to express something and you have nowhere to express it.

I have been living a house free, digital nomadic lifestyle since June 2014. Originally, my intuition told me that this was an experience for a year. Thank you, inner guidance. If I knew that this would last nine years+ and it would evolve into so many different experiences of feeling lost and found, it would have been overwhelming and scary. Focused on one year at a time, is enough.

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Andrea Hylen
Andrea Hylen

Written by Andrea Hylen

Founder of Heal My Voice and The Incubator. Life Scientist. Live house-free. Widow. Mom of Adult Daughters. Grief. Writing Sexuality. Evolutionary Woman

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