Meg is vibrant. Warm. A rebel with an adventuring cause.
I don’t know if I want to run up to Brisbane to give her a hug or to laugh at anything and everything with her.
When I think of someone who is going for what they love to do, Meg is it. She’s inclusive, real and has taken some pretty big risks; including starting her own business through Adventuring Home. The interesting thing about risks, which she’ll give you insight into, is when you are doing something that you love it doesn’t even feel like a risk, but that you are being supported and guided towards your bliss.
Meet Meg O’Sullivan…
Where are you in the world?
Beautiful Brisbane, Australia. Where I am currently sitting in my backyard mid-Winter soaking up the sun in 24 degrees. Yep. A bloody brilliant place to be.
How do you follow your bliss all year round?
I follow that feeling. You know that one that tells you whether or not you’re living in alignment with your truth, whether what you’re doing is good for your soul.
Following my bliss just means following my excitement in every moment.
At this point that’s lots of yoga, Chakra work, experimenting in the kitchen, writing, creating and living simply.
When did the inspiration for Adventuring Home first come about?
I have this feeling the Universe always had these plans for me, that Adventuring Home was brewing inside of me long before I ever consciously knew about her. That being said, I can clearly remember the point when she let me in on her plans. I had just finished my first Yin Yoga class in Lagos, Portugal whilst traveling last July. I walked out of the class with tears streaming down my face. My whole understanding of Home had just been completely and utterly transformed. I was the furthest I had ever been from my “home”, but felt the most connected, supported and loved I had ever felt.
Yep. It was as I was strolling back to my hotel with a face full of joyous tears that I realised home is not restricted to a location, time zone or type of surrounding. Home is something accessible to us always. No matter how far we travel, it never leaves us. And so it was with this realisation that I thought… “Fuck. More people need to know this!”. The seed was planted for what is now Adventuring Home.
If fear ever shows up in your life, how do you move passed it?
I stare it straight in the eye and look for it’s truth. For me the only thing that’s real is that sense of Home, I just mentioned, our inner divinity. Usually after inspecting my fear, I find that it has no foundation of truth but simply rooted in some ego-based worry, like “being left out”, “being criticised” or “being seen as a failure”. Once I see that this isn’t threatening to my inner sense of divinity (just so you know nothing can threaten this), I realise that the fear I am feeling is false. It’s my ego’s way of pulling me out of the moment.
As my main man, Eckhart Tolle says – “There are no problems in the present moment.” When we are focusing on the Here and Now fear cannot exist. So in the end, there isn’t even a need to inspect, dwell or question your fears (Hmmm I’ll definitely have to skip the first part from now on). It’s simply about coming back to the present moment, a place where they cannot survive.
Side note: You know those moments where you finish writing and you realise you wrote that exact part because YOU needed to hear it. Ummm that is exactly what just happened here.
Why do you love what you do?
Cause it makes me feel good. And that’s how I go about living my life these days, based on that feeling. At the moment expressing myself through the written word ticks the “feel good” box.
It is when I am putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys) that I often lose myself. My ego seems to drift away and I become completely present. That is why I love writing. For those nothing-else-exists-but-right-now kinda moments.
No, they don’t happened everyday. And yes, sometimes writing can feel taxing and chore-like. But those moment of pure presence is exactly what I live for.
AND… the fact that I get to share my beliefs, idea and stories with a community of gorgeous women, who seem to dig what I put out into the world is a pretty amazing thing too.
What’s one of the biggest risks you’ve taken, and how did it feel to go for it?
I feel like I have been truly guided in the last 18 months. I know that we are always guided in some way or another, but it’s only been recently that I have opened my eyes up to this force and surrendered to it. As a consequence, it has seen me create my blog, open myself up to coaching clients, quit my job (without another form of steady income) and release an ebook all within 6 months.
For me none of that seemed “risky” at the time, as I felt supported by some bigger force. However looking back its hard not kinda look in awe at myself and think, “You little risk-taker you!”.
So yes the last 18 months has been ‘risky” by a normal understanding of the word, but through it all I’ve felt unbelievably supported and guided. So for those wanting to take a leap I suggest you hand yourself over to that force. Surrender to it. Cause no matter how risky your “head” might make a situation out to be, you’re always supported and guided. Nothing can go wrong. Nothing can threaten that feeling of home.
Tell us a time when something totally synchronistic happened…
My life has been a bit of an explosion of synchronicities as of late. I don’t have one major “omg-did-that-actually-happen” kinda story for you, but there’s been a bunch of those little ones. Like when you’re thinking of a person, then everywhere you go they turn up or you come across someone somehow linked to them. Or like when you quit your job without any idea where your moolah will come from, then a whole lot of strange, unexpected opportunities suddenly flow into your reality. Yep, I’ve experienced a bunch of these kinda meaningful coincidences lately.
For me they’re a sign that the Universe is on my side. And there is really no better feeling than being in the flow, riding those waves of synchronicities. Total. Bliss.
What advice could you give to someone who knows what they love to do, but haven’t gone for it?
Just Do It.
I know that sounds so simple. But it really is.
We as human beings love to complicate things. We dwell so much on what could happen instead of actually just living in the moment, going for it and picking up the pieces along the way (if there is in fact any to even pick up!).
So my advice is, do as Nike suggests. Just do it.
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Meg O’Sullivan is a Reality Alchemist, yogi-in-training and crazy-passionate writer. Her mission is to help beautiful women with big, badass dreams discover their inner power and transmute their current reality into one which they truly desire. With a Bachelor of Behavioral Science (Psychology) and Business (Marketing), Meg is privy to the wonderful workings of our brain and understands how it can be used to help us create a life we have always dreamed of. She is a lover of all things mystical and mysterious, and believes swearing is the key to self-empowerment and that dancing is the perfect elixir for a depleted soul.
