Welcome to my travel blog on living my life long dream

In this blog I share my personal thoughts, insights, tips from travelling to 14 countries in 12 months solo backpacking from UK to New Zealand and Australia, around SE Asia and Europe – something I had dreamed of since I was in my twenties, but inspired by ‘ imagine actually seeing the real Amazon’ since I was about 12 from my encyclopaedia – just one small, simple picture of a dense green jungle and a few paragraphs started that dream off so long ago.  Even if I didn’t know that then…I did get there in 2016!

I left on 1st August 2015 and returned early June 2016.   I get the usual Facebook reminders that bring the swell of memories and feelings up to surface again.  Not that the thoughts are ever really far from mind for me!

I am Julie Crowley, mum to two young women, and professionally a Mindset Coach in my business practice Clear Mind Coaching & NLP helping people to live and create a life they love – and like me, to live their dreams too.

This is my place to share that side of me that was free and easy, doing what I wanted and how – the freedom just ‘to be’ and do.  It was also my dream of 35 years – and when that moment came I did eventually live my dream!  Older, wiser and using coaching techniques to help me, some of which I had developed before I even knew about coaching (and you will have those too!) just now I know how to best utilise them to live my dreams and create my life.