When A Nomad’s Freedom Starts To Feel Like A Trap

that's beautiful does that have anything to do with why you're called pocahontas or you named yourself where does that come from

I don't know.

People have always told me that I look like Pocahontas since I was a very young lady.

And I do resonate with the values of Pocahontas.

You know, nature, the balance, the energy.

It's, I think, something that really resonates with me.

So, yeah, that's how I go about the world.

I ground myself.

to the earth and obviously my heritage being half Peruvian also has a lot to do with the connection with Mother Earth and seeing natural elements around you as beings that actually exist and have essence and They're entities that are out there.

That's why I love teaching my students at Deeply Nomad how to connect with places in a way that is uniquely yours.

Because, you know, a country, a city, a mountain, they're alive.

And the way that I experience that place is different to the way that you experience that place, because we build different relationships with those entities.

And the more you can see that place as an actual entity that is sacred, the more you're going to respect it and give back as well.

And I think that sense of intentionality is something very unique to Deeply Nomad and something that I really know we're going to make an impact with because the nomadic community needs that.

It needs more of the intentionality.

Too many nomads are wandering the world with a sense of extraction rather than generosity.

Yeah, how do you, if you're someone who is wanting to become a nomad or say that, let's just, I guess the question is, how do you know whether your desire to live a nomadic life is truly rooted in something positive or if it's just an escape from something else? How do you determine about that yourself?

Hmm.

Escapism is a real thing.

We talk about it a lot at Deeply Nomad.

It's something that a lot of nomads or aspiring nomads deal with without even realizing it because it's not in your conscious mind.

It's in your subconscious mind.

It's a pattern, right? It's a way to deal with unresolved problems.

to hit the road and just forget about it.

And what people don't realize is that just because you travel, your problems won't just fade away.