https://www.biancasimboli.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-01-05 https://www.biancasimboli.com/blog/three-years monthly 0.5 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/52c8a060-07c6-4b34-80e1-689753ca5f2d/IMG_5285.jpg blog - three years gone And what I’ve learned is you don’t just move on - whether it’s the loss of a loved one, of a job, of a life you once knew - you can move forward, but loss carries so much weight and it only changes shape with time. It doesn’t just disappear. It becomes a dimension of your being, a new part of you that you have to learn about yourself and then learn how to share it with the world hoping to be understood, but knowing just like anything else about yourself, that you and only you will only ever fully understand. And I’ve learned how painful that can be, how alone it can make you feel, how it makes you want to shut your emotions off to show up in another way that feels acceptable to the rest of the world. But, I think the only way to ensure that the tiniest bit of light in that hole never fully goes away is to let yourself feel what you need, lean into the change, and be grateful that the sadness is a result of being able to love deeply. Even in moments of grief, your heart finds a way to hold space for the beautiful things you cherished but also finds a way to expand to let more in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/8a2b65a7-3710-44a3-9e7d-185c7fc24a1d/IMG_2972.JPG blog - three years gone - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/62b61074-b070-4dcb-a5b0-150f5819cd35/IMG_6740.JPG blog - three years gone The silence I felt that night when I got home is a silence I still often feel. Like where is he? Why can’t I hear him anymore? I think what I have learned about grief is that it becomes normal over time to deal with - you start to heal from the immediate pain - but that silence doesn’t ever go away. In fact, it feels like it becomes more quiet. Losing someone is a hole in your heart that will never get filled with something else. It just becomes part of you. And over time, as you heal, your heart expands around that hole to make room for more good and more love, but it changes the make-up of your heart, requiring you to adjust and learn how to exist with a new version of who you are. That hole seems to feel like the depths of the ocean...those layers of emptiness seem to just build upon one another as you dive deeper and as more time passes. The light gets a little dimmer and the silence a little quieter the deeper it gets. https://www.biancasimboli.com/blog/thailand-pt1 monthly 0.5 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/a9c480a2-5e4a-4067-b145-a96574d32efe/IMG_5964.jpg blog - thailand - pt.1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/7f756dc3-ca1d-420b-85dc-87a6022e0b22/IMG_6096.jpg blog - thailand - pt.1 Qatar Airways quickly became my favorite airline (and still is to this day). The food, the crew, the comfort of the airline in economy was like nothing I had ever experienced. But there was one moment on that first flight heading to Doha out of JFK that I will never forget. As the plane was taking off, I caught myself holding my breath, still trying to convince myself everything was fine. I glanced behind me in that moment and in the seats just diagonally behind me, I locked eyes with the sweetest little girl with the kindest big brown eyes who couldn’t have been more than five - and she smiled the biggest smile toward me. She was sitting in between her parents, all of whom appeared to be regulars on such a flight. They were all calm and present, and in that moment, I suddenly was too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/111c99e7-3f02-42b7-8fca-15a300f0a8f3/IMG_5979.jpg blog - thailand - pt.1 For as long as I can recall, the desire to travel has always been part of me. I traveled to Spain in high school with my AP Spanish class, studied abroad for three months in Italy during college, and traveled frequently each month for work thereafter. But in 2018, I needed something more. There was something calling me to push the boundaries. I was living in NYC for quite some time. I was starting to feel stuck in my work, my relationship, my lifestyle. The day-to-day was becoming the same, rather mundane, routine and I needed to burst out of it. I was ready for a trip - but not any trip like I had taken before. I was in search of something that would change my life in a way that only my soul could understand. And I wanted to do it alone. https://www.biancasimboli.com/blog/gdx453y65ffk5vgi8c49j6yhdzx5lf monthly 0.5 2023-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/10b74c5c-ed83-4a8e-87a9-135459abd6f2/tempImageVA1Yqm.jpg blog - resurfacing So here I am in Denver, resurfacing into myself, trying to find the balance and the new starting line, and letting go of fear. My desire for community, my desire to share and be vulnerable, my desire to write - it’s never left me - and while I’m not sure what’s entirely next or what I’m fully ready for, what I do know is fear is taking the back seat and I’m eager to start again in a different way. I’m eager to connect and reconnect in a new light. If you have gotten this far, thanks for being here. You’re why I am here. For those of you that have been an endless light on my trail, I am wildly grateful, and, if we have yet to meet, I look forward to it happening soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/f4087bb4-ee7b-4efa-b6f3-51d246ba0e50/IMG_5430.jpg blog - resurfacing My world became filled with a lot of yin and yang energy. The pandemic caused the best part of my job (the travel), to cease for some time. With that, however, came the opportunity to engage fully in my yoga practice and to show up to a community more consistently than I ever had the chance to. That community filled my soul with the kindest of humans, taught me more about myself than I ever knew existed, and led to me my amazing partner, Mike. With zero expectations, we went on our first date and never looked back. Mike moved to Denver, CO in the summer of 2021 as I stayed in Florida, switching job roles to begin recruiting internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64893559b14f8044b08c2bc2/7e8d69fd-cd70-4ceb-86ce-b938b657c14f/IMG_1565.jpg blog - resurfacing - I loved living in Florida - I discovered an entirely new part of myself there and that ongoing journey is something I hold so close to my heart. I wasn’t quite ready to leave, but I knew something had to change. I decided to leave my job that no longer aligned with who I wanted to be, put my belongings in storage, and quietly moved on out to Denver last summer. YES, I MOVED TO COLORADO! What a ride. 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