A Fiber Life | ordinary moments on the fiber farm

If you are going to change your life, you are going to encounter obstacles. And some of those obstacles might even be dangerous. Welcome to A Fiber Life. In episode two, Lisa and Greg get real about the darker parts of their journey. The parts that should have made them quit. From shoveling loads of hard-packed poop, the death of their mentor, difficulties with the guanacos themselves that left them physically and mentally scarred, Lisa and Greg leaned into their decision to be farmers. You see, the way you react to these scary things could mean the difference between actually making the life you want or going back to where you came from and never making a change at all. If you don’t let the fear take over and instead If you lean in– If you take a breath and keep going, you might be surprised at how good things can become.

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There are these moments in life, let’s call them ‘YES moments’. They happen when we stumble across a really good thing and say ‘YES’. Welcome to A Fiber Life. In episode one, owners of Aliento Luxury Fiber Farm, Lisa and Greg, share the story about how they quit their busy, successful and stressful jobs, moved to an island, and started their lives over as fiber farmers. They share how they began raising llama-like creatures, called guanacos, and learned to harvest their fiber to create garments. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Did they know what they were doing? Lisa answers all these questions while also challenging listeners to tune into that nagging part of their brain that tells you to say “YES” to crazy ideas... and how this may actually be the sanest thing you can do.

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In 2018 we did a crazy thing.....

we quit our stressful-suburban lives and bought a farm on an island in the Pacific NorthWest.

Then, we bought a small herd of exotic animals called Guanacos.

Now we raise them for their special fiber.

If you have ever had the impulse to change everything about your life and do something completely different

or if you are a fiber artist or an animal lover who wants to know more about our special guanacos and their exquisite fiber, I’m glad you’re here

Our hope is that this podcast, A Fiber Life will do for you, what it has for us...inspire you to live with every FIBER of your being.

Leave your stresses behind and join me, Lisa Mitchell, as I share stories about Our Fiber Life.

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It turns out that we humans are terrible at estimating the value of the present. There is a study I just read by Harvard researchers. They found that as time goes on, we regret how easily we let moments go. So, maybe the question, “What’s next?” doesn’t need to be answered by moving or with a new big adventure or project. What if we decided to stop underestimating the value of the present in our own lives and started figuring out how to capture and learn from those ordinary moments that one day the study says we will likely long for?

For this third season of A Fiber Life we’ve decided to forage our lives for ordinary moments and create an auditory scrapbook of sorts. We are by no means experts in this endeavor. It’s going to take trying some new things, changing some old habits, and navigating more than a few obstacles, I’m certain of that. But, in the end, I think it is a worthy thing to work on.

If this resonates with you, I hope you join us in our exploration and find some peace and respite by listening to the sounds and stories about our little fiber farm on an island in the Pacific Northwest.

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A Fiber Life Website: www.afiberlife.com

The Study Lisa References:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614542274

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This is the last episode of season 2. In this episode, I dive into the question, why do I write this podcast? What does reflection of this kind mean to me and others? And when the magic seems dimmed, how can we get it back? I talk to Laura Davis, author, writing teacher and retreat leader about the act of writing and its healing potential especially when it’s shared with others. Greg and I reflect on the podcast season and our farm life. And you won’t want to miss this—while at the beach where something very, very special happens. I’ll take stock of where things are right now on the farm, and show you how writing really does lead to magic. So if you are feeling like you can’t see the forest through the trees, like you need to have some time to breath, this episode is for you.

If you’d like to attend the same retreat I attended, Writing as a Pathway, with writer and author Laura Davis, the next one is coming up later this summer at a beautiful retreat center in northern California. I highly recommend Laura’s retreat as a safe, supportive place for dealing with grief, change or life transitions of any kind: https://lauradavis.net/writing-as-a-pathway/

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https://lauradavis.net/

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