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Who is Chasing The Unconventional?

I am a French gal who’s lived abroad for the last 17 years. I am crazy about travels, the English language & I crave for deep connections. I also would like to mention that I have the least common personality type on the MBTI spectrum which is the INFJ personality (about 1% of the population), so you’re about to embark on a roller-coaster of emotions with me! Heads up :-).

Where did the idea come from?

The whole idea of running a blog was born back in 2014 when I had just arrived in Rome (Italy). I had just spent eleven years in London living the life, but suddenly felt the need to go & explore other opportunities. I basically landed in Rome with only two weeks of accommodation sorted out, but that was it, nothing else! I found two different jobs, but was only given a few hours per week, so I had to find something else. I was looking for a way to stay abroad, travel and make money. That’s how I came across a few travel blogs with incredible success stories and since I’m the type of person who believes that almost anything is possible, I thought “Bingo!”. For weeks I started drafting ideas, I searched how to build & run a blog and put down in writing absolutely all the ideas that came through my mind.

Even though the blogging idea was super exciting to me, I knew it wouldn’t make any money right away, so I jumped on a different opportunity that presented itself at the time. I accepted a job in Casperia which is an hour North of Rome and moved there to work for a yoga retreat called Sunflower Retreat. I worked there until November 2014 and then came back for the following season which ended in November 2015. Although there could have been plenty to write about, I wasn’t sure where to start and how to put things together, so I put the whole blogging project aside for a while. It’s only after the season ended that I contacted someone to help me out with the technical side of building a blog. That’s when “Chasing The Unconventional” was born.

Unfortunately, a few things came in the way after that again… I went back to what people call a “normal life”. Yep, that’s right… The full-time office job, rules, paying rent, routine and I lost myself for almost three years. This job taught me A LOT about who I am and what I’m capable of. Despite being in the wrong place, I met and worked with some really amazing people and I’m grateful for that. I’m just sorry that we didn’t meet in a different setting and they could have met the better version of me… Anyway, I couldn’t stay there any longer and left in August 2018.

I left feeling like I had dropped a big weight off my shoulders & felt happier right away. I was free again with no specific destination, no rules to follow, no justification to give to anyone, just a field of possibilities before me!

My goal is to reshape my life and to break the imaginary boundaries that I have created for myself. I know that there is much more I can reach for and it’s a matter of finding out how to do it. I believe that travelling along with other daily practices will help me just do that because it fuels my creativity & my motivation. It is about learning how to control my insecurities, implementing new & healthy habits and working on a new mindset. I have decided to blog about this journey because I want to share my experiences with others, empower people and help them find themselves too.