Defying the Odds & Moving to Europe
Name: Olivia O'Connor
Where do you reside?: Charleston, South Carolina
What is your cultural upbringing and background?: I am an only child, originally from Portland, Oregon, and raised Jewish with spiritual practices and openness to learning about different beliefs and systems.
Are you currently a Pathway Member?: Yes
What was on your manifestation list?: A move to Amsterdam and my dream canal apartment.
What workshops did you use and what blocks did you discover during the DIs & workshops?: Both manifestations came through about 2.5 years into the work. I got a ping to go to Amsterdam on a solo trip in 2019 and fell in love with it. It felt like I was coming home to my truest self. I decided it would be a place that I wanted to base out, and I started calling in a working visa to live there. I gathered all the info, and then the pandemic hit. In 2020, I lived in North Carolina with my family and crafted my manifestation list for my dream canal apartment. The European borders were closed to US citizens during the time, and so it felt like a big waiting period for months.
Around January 2021, I got the ping to reach out to an immigration lawyer and see if, even though the borders are closed, there was a way to be able to move to Amsterdam and get a residency visa. They wrote back within a day, and we set up a zoom meeting. I learned that I could start a company over in the Netherlands and could be eligible to have a visa that would let me enter. That in itself felt like the biggest manifestation and showed me that if you have a ping, to ask. My visa came through early, about two months later, and I booked my flight to Amsterdam.
When I landed, I had a bridge apartment secured. I wanted it to feel bohemian, cabin-like, with wood accents, and to feel me authentically. That was the first manifestation over there that expanded me that my right fit for my price point could come through. I was searching for short-term apartments in Facebook groups for a couple of months kind of obsessively, when the day that I finally didn't care and was just scrolling on Facebook, I found an ad posted by a girl who wanted to rent out her place. I got the apartment and up-leveled my self-care and deservingness muscle around feeling deserving of styling a place authentic to me by purchasing linen sheets that I had my eye on for a while.
My major manifestation was still my dream canal apartment that I had envisioned for so long. I started to meet with realtors and go to showings of apartments. Simultaneously, I was being expanded by a couple that I went to college with that lived on a beautiful canal and owned their dream apartment. The feeling of it was what I connected to the most - open, spacious, wood floors, cozy, elegant, expanded, safe, secure. I was single and looking to rent, and so I continued to tell myself that I deserved the feeling I got when I was there but my authentic version of it. Most of the people that I met during my first two weeks since landing there told me how hard it would be to find a place, especially on my own and on a canal.
I didn't let that get to me and continued to unblock and expand. A test came through about a week before I manifested my apartment - it was a similar style to what I was looking for and a street back from a canal. It felt like a shiny carrot because it would've been directly working with the owner, and it was for my price point and a little bit under. When I saw that there was a cracked sink, it felt like the ultimate test. I decided to text the owner and let that one go. I also went to dinner at my friend's house, who lived in the expander canal house, and I met the neighbors on their street. I kept thinking to myself. Now this is what I want. A safe, beautiful community where it feels relaxing and expansive. "This is what I deserve," I thought. A couple of days went by after I said no to the test apartment, and I had the realization that I still had 1.5 months left of my short-term rental. I relaxed at ease and felt like I had all the time in the world and wasn't in a rush (surrender!).
The following week an apartment came on the market, and it was on the exact canal that my friends lived on. The style and feel looked like the exact apartment I had been envisioning but even better. It was a little more expensive than what I wanted to pay, and so I booked an appointment to see it telling myself that it would be an expander apartment to show me what I deserved. I walked in, and it felt exactly what I thought it would, so perfect. I still didn't think it was mine, just an expander, but I decided to ask my relator if we could make an offer that was a little lower. I was expanded by the idea of doing that from a friend who had mentioned that it's always worth trying to see if you can get it to the price you want, and so I decided to go for it. A few days later, I got approved for the canal apartment for the price I wanted, and it was mine.
If you did work with a coach or a few, who did you work with, in what capacity (Q/A service or Session(s)) and how did that contribute to your manifestation process?: Before this move, I worked with Amanda Blair who helped me own my power in dating and making a move even in a pandemic.
Did you experience a magic dark period? If so, tell us about it.: When I put in the offer for the canal apartment that I wanted, I needed to wait a few days for the landlord to look at my details and approve me. I felt a little anxious and kept turning to the Deservingness DI.
How did your manifestation come through?: As soon as I was expanded by seeing an apartment that felt was the exact one I wanted, even if it felt a little out of reach - I still moved forward on it, and it turned out to be the one I had been manifesting. Also, passing a shiny carrot test, knowing that I deserved to feel as happy and comfortable as my friends did (who ended up living on the same canal), and leaning back into surrender and trusting that I could wait for the right thing and that there wasn't a big rush.
How long did it take for your manifestation to come through after crafting your initial list?: About two years - but after I made a move to Amsterdam, it came through within one month!
How frequently were you using the workshops and DI's when you noticed the biggest shift surrounding your manifestation?: Every single day! The Deserving DI really helped me to not have a shadow around being a single woman and manifesting an elegant apartment on a nice canal.
How do you incorporate this work into your life on a daily basis? Any tips, tricks or recommendations for getting the most out of it, or personalizing it?: I like to do the work in an intuitive way. I find that things will pop up in my day-to-day life, and I'll feel into what would give me the best healing or make me feel the best from it. I constantly look for expanders and have found that it really does speed up the process.
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