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  • Who is Sarah?
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    Hi, I'm Sarah, 31 years old, mother of a 3 year old son, wife and dog owner. I was born in Germany, but me and my family live in Cyprus since mid 2018. And I grew up too fast.

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  • Favourite Posts
    • Some days you just hit the road and end up in … Episkopi 🚙
      March 24, 2020
    • Our First Night in the Rooftop Tent – Thunder, Storm and Hail Included ⛺⛈️
      March 17, 2020
    • My Homesickness 🏠
      March 10, 2020
    • Big Magic – We are all Artists
      March 3, 2020
  • Throwback to 4 weeks ago when road trips, sleeping in a tent and visiting restaurants and archaeological sites were still a thing and we thought we had the ultimate control over our lives and everything planned out so nicely.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you want to get back to this time for some minutes head over to my new blogpost on my blog (link in my bio @sarahlorenz.official). In there I write about our first camping trip of this year here in Cyprus. And hopefully not the last one for this year as well.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #episkopi #archeological #amphitheater #cypruslife #cypruslove #livingincyprus #ilovecyprus #cypruslocations #cyprusisland
  • "I definitely imagined this differently", I hear myself saying to Timo, while sitting upright in the tent. Even though my eyes are wide open, I can’t see anything in the pitch black tent. Our new tent definitely keeps the light out well. But that’s not even the reason why I’m so startled. It’s more because I see everything light up in one second, and then go pitch black right after a second later. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In fact, I would prefer total darkness right now. Because: It is thunder that I’m hearing.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It is our first night in the rooftop tent. We are lying on top of our car, which is standing on a steep cliff while a thunderstorm is heading right towards us. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In addition to that, it’s hailing and storming like crazy. Our whole car is shaking, and we are, too...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ..keep reading the full blogpost on my blog growingbackdownagain.com - link also in my bio @sarahlorenz.official⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #rooftoptent #dachzeltnomaden #offroadcamper #parkitwhereyouloveit #overlandinglife #adventureisnecessary
  • This is a very transformational time for me. Suddenly there is so much time and need to calm down and pause. No more distractions from the outside. Hardly any in-person human interaction. No more café visits or sports sessions or community meet-ups. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Just the option between staying at home or going to some remote nature place. And so much time for thoughts and plans and dreams.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Obviously, I have no idea how long this will last. And what’s on the other side of it. Neither for the world nor for me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A thought that feels scary. But also a tiny bit exciting.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #cypruslife #cypruslove #justpauseandthink #somanythoughts #isolationdoneright
  • Today on my 31st birthday I want to tell you the story of Doreen's 11th birthday.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Doreen lives in Kampala, Uganda 🇺🇬. I've been sponsoring her for 2.5 years through the amazing @22stars.foundation by my friend @stella_airoldi. With my small monthly donation, Doreen now doesn't have to work in the stone quarry anymore but gets to go to school.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ With her 11th birthday approaching, I donated a little extra money thinking it would be nice for her to get a present for her birthday.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This photo was taken on her birthday and shows her with her birthday gift: A 20kg bag of flour.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Flour! Not a toy or clothes or pencils. What this girl needed most in her life at that point was flour! She is HIV positive and needs to take very strong medication which hurts on an empty stomach. So the best birthday gift that I could make was something we don't even think about in our world.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ever since then I feel slightly weird unwrapping presents 🎁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ BUT this is not a story about feeling bad or even sorry for someone else. This is a story about empowerment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When Doreen started attending school her grades were below average (Of course! She has never been to school before). The kids in the school get ranked and she started as being the last one in the class position. In the latest school report, she is holding position 13 out of 113 and got "excellent results".⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ She is a very happy and smart girl and so determined.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you want to start something special today, have a look at the kids that are still waiting for a sponsor so that they can stop working at the stone quarry crushing stones all day long but instead attend school: https://www.foundation22stars.org⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy birthday to me and hopefully to one of the waiting kids too for their next birthday 💜
  • Last weekend we spent the first two nights in our rooftop rent. 🚗⛺ I'm currently writing a blogpost about it but I can already tell you: It was amazing! 😍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thecampingseasonhasstarted #rooftoptent #dachzeltnomaden #offroadcamper #parkitwhereyouloveit #overlandinglife #adventureisnecessary
  • Do you know the types of books you read and then years later you still remember bits of it? 📘 It only happens rarely these days. Most of the time I forget half the content or even the whole storyline, and then, if I happen to read the book again, it’s almost as if I’ve never read it in the first place (with crimes I often can’t even recall who the murderer was 🙈). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The more surprised I am when years after I’ve read a book, certain aspects still remain utterly present to me. Just like it happened with the book “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you’re still here”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I wrote a personal review of the book on my blog growingbackdownagain.com. You can read it there now. The link is also in my bio 😊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #bigmagic #creativejourney #artforthesoul #carveouttimeforart
  • A few weeks ago I had an interesting and slightly obvious revelation: I am a highly sensitive person.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The truth is I have known about the term and the concept for a long time. And I can’t really explain why I actually never considered whether this applied to me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But while taking a test and reading the questions, I quickly realized that almost every single aspect rang true for me - in fact, some of them to a very high degree. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Being a highly sensitive person basically means that our sensory intake (seeing, hearing, smelling, etc.) is more sensitive than it is for others. In addition to that, highly sensitive people have a rich inner realm of thoughts and emotions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I wrote a blogpost about this topic and just published it on growingbackdownagain.com ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Make sure to head there and check it out now.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #highlysensitiveperson #innerchildhealing #highlysensitive #innerreflexion

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