💛Kia ora e te whānau (friends & family)

I’ve been quiet.

A little absent from this space, not because I had disappeared, but because life called me into a big and unexpected transition.

Just over 10 days ago, I packed up my life in Mangawhai, back into storage and made the journey south to Ōtaki.

This possibility first whispered to me back in February. I explored it then, but the timing wasn’t right. The door remained closed. And then, as life so often does, everything shifted.

The path opened, the pieces fell into place, and it became clear that it was time to move.

So I’ve spent these past days gathering, packing, letting go, travelling, arriving, and slowly landing.

For now, this feels like exactly where I need to be.

For my mahi.

for my whānau

for me.

And perhaps most deeply, for my whakapapa.

As someone who whakapapa into Ngāti Raukawa - Otāki (this is one of my tribes, and my ancestral lands) there is something profound about waking each day beneath the gaze of my maunga (mountain )- the Tararua’s, being beside the waters that have known my tupuna (ancestors), and within the embrace of the whenua (land) that remembers my people.

It feels less like arriving somewhere new and more like being welcomed home by something ancient….my ancestors.

💛My last post spoke about stepping more fully into sharing my Matekite journey and leaning into the vulnerability of being seen.

Then life had other plans, and all of my energy turned towards this move and everything it required.

Now, as I slowly unpack and settle into new rhythms, I can feel another chapter beginning.

A quieter one.

A deeper one.

One that asks me to listen carefully.

To root myself more fully into who I am.

To honour where I come from and where I am being called.

Thank you for your patience while I’ve been away, and thank you for walking alongside me, whether from near or far.

I’m looking forward to sharing more from this beautiful place, this chapter, and from my journey that continues to unfold.

Arohanui,

Lisa

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“Sometimes the path doesn’t ask us to know where we’re going. It simply asks us to trust the call home.”

That’s certainly is true for me- in the way that this come about so quickly.

💛huge aroha to my nearest and dearest friends and whanau, arohamai I didn’t get to tell you all seperately - I was thinking of you annnnnnd I was getting my head around making this transition so swiftly…..and I felt this pull to go quite inwards with it all - and just land💛love youuuuu💛