Ep. 4 Contentment

This week, I’m somewhere between packing boxes and a full emotional unraveling. We’re saying goodbye to Thailand and heading to Vietnam—but while the outside move is exciting, the inside one is... complicated.

In this episode, I unpack the messiness of contentment, the grief of losing my grandparents' farm (and my sense of home with it), the constant tension between nesting and roaming, and why a balcony full of tropical plants might be the thing that finally breaks me.

Also: a shoutout to a man who’s been traveling with no fixed address for 17 years, a flashback to my grandma’s favorite saying, and a friendly reminder that sometimes the best way to handle life-altering questions is to bring snacks.

Topics include:

• Living light... but still buying candles
• Processing grief you didn’t know was still sitting there
• Gen X rootlessness vs. cozy nesting
• “No bed misses me”—and the emotional spiral that followed
• The emotional logic of jungle plants
• What to do when you should feel content... but don’t