Time to get real. About cacao, connection and cross cultural relationships.
I can honestly say that cacao has been an integral fuel in helping me be more present and connected in my relationship with Rómulo - not only do we have colossal cultural differences, but a 14 year age gap (I’m older, would you believe it). And also lots of work with my coach Hannah, too, is helping me live a more connected and loving life, too.
The presence, love and connection cacao helps me feel is super useful in transcending ego and viewing life through the lens of the present rather than the past. I think it has helped us connect despite these colossal differences in cultural and views on life.
In Peru, I’ve been living in a culture that is super triggering for me at times... heightened against a backdrop of global fear and panic. Cacao has given me support and strength to process the deep triggers associated with being in a machismo and rural culture that I OPINE to be regressive, as I am a person who feels uncomfortable with unconscious and repressed sexuality, normalised domestic violence, non-consensual infidelity and deeply entrenched gender roles that people blindly accept. Because I am a person that believes that the paradigm has to change if our species is to survive. Connection over conditioning and status quo.
All this has been challenging and uncomfortable, but also rewarding for its growth. This is the remit of anyone consciously navigating relationships, life and their inner world, I believe.
Relationships and life are not roses and sunshine all the time. They’re real as fuck.
They’re like the jungle: wild, raw, heaving, unpredictable, fierce, beautiful, peaceful, mysterious, boring, healing...
Life is raw and messy, but it is also studded with jewels. And I believe there is hope for the us as a species, I believe we are headed to more connection. And these plants are here to hold our hands along the way.
Picture of us when we were living on Sumaqao cacao farm for a magical six weeks June-August this year.
🧡🍫🦜💓🌪☄️😈🌟🤩😍
