I WENT QUIET

SO I COULD LEARN HOW TO LISTEN AGAIN

I went quiet for a while. A good long while.
Life had become so overwhelming, and even though it was a life of my own making, it became too much for me to bear. Not because it wasn’t a life I had enjoyed, but because it no longer felt like me.

For those of you who don’t know, I was born in Denmark, immigrated to the US and lived there, built my life and my business for right around 10 years, until one day, I realised that I could no longer find the happiness I was truly aching for. 

Don’t get me wrong. Life was beautiful in so many ways. I lived the American Dream. But at some point, the call of home became too loud, and one day, I realised it was time to go back. 

So I did.

I moved to Sweden. Close to my family. Close to lakes and woods, and long Summer nights, and stillness. And peace.

What followed was unlike anything.
It was an unravelling of my identity.

I thought I was just going to have a bit of an identity crisis when I moved. It was only natural.

What I didn’t know was that everything I believed in, stood for, and wanted for myself, was about to fall apart…and I was the one actively, purposely burning it to the ground. 

Everything I had fought so hard to achieve was no longer important.  

Photography taught me how to see the world and to see humans. But somewhere along the way, the vision had become tainted by the things I thought I wanted. The accumulation. The ego.

So I put the camera down for a moment. Or more accurately, I didn’t want to touch it. Something in me had to be resolved first, before I picked up my most important tool to see.
I needed to see without the camera.
I needed to reconnect with my purpose.

And I needed to redefine how I wanted to be a photographer. 

It meant dismantling my business. Picking it apart piece by piece, throwing out most of it, and only keeping what I genuinely believed would serve you. And more importantly…it meant taking a deep, long, hard look at my ego, and releasing that too.

The process was painful but intensely beautiful. The results make me want to tear up. Because finally, I believe in what I do again. Fully. With every fibre of my being.

I rewilded myself and my business. Untamed my mind. And allowed the joy of creation to flow back into my chest. 

I had to be quiet so I could learn how to listen to what my inner being was trying to tell me. 

As a result, I am becoming more in tune with my gut, my art, with the world, and with you. 

I am finally coming from a place of creation again.
And I can’t wait for you to join me!

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