by Sarah Lehn | Nov 18, 2021 | Blog, Family, Life Purpose, Search for Meaning, Sex & Relationships
#17 Returning to the Old World Coming home after a year of traveling can be an utterly confusing experience. To me, it was a time of things falling apart and new beginnings. Life comes in waves, they say. Let me tell you about the ups and downs I experienced when I...
by Sarah Lehn | Oct 19, 2021 | Blog, Family, Friendships, Health
#15 Brother, bathrooms and bonding “Stop playing around!” I reproached my brother Kilian on the phone. He had just told me that he was planning to visit me in Central America for Christmas. Because he’s not the biggest travel enthusiast, I thought he was messing with...
by Sarah Lehn | Sep 14, 2021 | Family, Health, Search for Meaning
#8 Meeting the Mentor Have you heard of The Hero’s Journey? It is a narrative model that underlies the storyline of many myths. It was developed by a scholar named Joseph Campbell. Campbell read many religious and mythological stories and recurrent patterns...
by Sarah Lehn | Sep 1, 2021 | Blog, Family, Friendships, Search for Meaning
#5 Leap of Faith, for Real. Now what? Here I was, on an island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. My mother and aunts had flown home. I was all alone in the silent house on a brand new sunny day that felt in many ways like it was the first day of a new life. What do...
by Sarah Lehn | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, Family, Love, Search for Meaning
#4 Handheld Hop of Faith “SARAH! WE’RE IN THE WRONG TRAIN!” Through the train window, my mother and I saw my brother and father waving erratically, signaling us to come out. My mother and I quickly bounded out of the train we were in! Three minutes...
by Sarah Lehn | Aug 29, 2021 | Blog, Family, Search for Meaning
#3 The Cost of Freedom Even before I physically left Germany, my world was split into two periods: BEFORE THE CHOICE and AFTER THE CHOICE. My life had felt boring and stagnant to me before. But once I made my decision there was movement, things I had to do to make my...
