Through My Viewfinder - Issue #3

Getting tossed around inside Scorpion and frolicking in a Sunflower Field!

Scorpion out near McMahon’s Point in the Blue Mountains - Camera: Ricoh KR-10 Super, Lens: XR Rikenon 28mm f/2.8, Film: Kodak Ultramax. Self Developed/Scanned/Edited

New Year, New Me? Don’t know her… yet.

So as I mentioned in my little catch up newsletter - ya girl had a bad case of The Big Sad, you know - the good ol’ depresh sesh, whatever you want to call it. I ended 2023 year in tears and started 2024 the same way if I’m being completely honest.

New Years tends to be stressful and sucky anyways, but this one took the cake. I was determined to turn everything around and was frankly sick of being a sad sack - especially as I wasn’t even making my own wellbeing a priority which is how I got in this situation. I had cast myself aside and compromised so much (classic people pleaser behaviours lol) I felt like I was a shell of who I once was - and you all know how much I’ve been “searching for my old self” lately. So it comes as no surprise that things kinda spiraled for a bit there… oops.

I knew I had to shake things up to get out of this funk I was stuck in. I started putting my foot down and actually got back to the things I truly value and enjoy. I admitted that I needed time to fumble through the pieces and figure out what I can do to reset it and get back to a healthy baseline. And one of the best ways for me to process my feelings as well as have that space to reconnect and ground myself is to go out 4WDing and get gloriously lost in the bush somewhere.

… Continue reading over on Substack

More Reading in this Series:
Through My Viewfinder - Issue #1 - Searching for pieces of my past self in the Blue Mountains
Through My Viewfinder - Issue #2 - Exploring Wiseman’s Ferry with my childhood bestie Julia.