Ep.15/ WHEN YOU GOTTA GO, YOU GOTTA GO!
"I have this belief that everything always works out for me. It doesn't matter where I go, I'm going to find love and I'm going to be given love. I will give it, I will receive it, and I will be safe."
In this episode, educator and co-founder of The Living Library, Brenda Biekx shares with us how she made the decision to leave home and move to Qatar (before she’d even told her husband). Biekx discusses how her experiences abroad taught her the importance of living for yourself and choosing a path that is in alignment with your truth, regardless of the cost.
A Message from Brenda:
“I was born with the name Brenda Biekx, but I also answer to the names: Carina, Crappy, and Miranda depending on when and where you met me.
What I do for a living does not define who I am. What do I do? I teach. I have taught formally from JK to high school. I have taught in highly specialized, segregated schools, and in alternative, wonderfully integrated schools. I have taught French, Science, Math, Reading, English, Yoga, and Sign Language. I have been a teacher for behaviourally exceptional students, for gifted students, and for Deaf students, for kids with Autism, and the myriad kids that come to school and are special just because they are who they are. I have taught in Ontario, in Qatar, and in Pakistan, and I have loved every single student I worked with, and they loved me back. It’s the most rewarding work I’ve had the pleasure to ‘do’. I am ever grateful to free public education.
But who am I?
I am a seeker, even at the level of my soul. I am a seeker of knowledge, of Truth, of adventure, of novelty, of justice, and of connection.
I am a lover. I am a lover of people, of trees, of animals, of spiders and snakes, of water, and of air. I am a lover of travel, of grammar, and of prose and poetry.
I am a student. I learn languages, philosophies, viewpoints, theories, and lifestyles.
I am a-live-er. I live my life, and I let you live yours. I live wherever I am. I live in many places and in many hearts. And they live in me.
I am afraid, I am timid, I am intrepid, I am sassy, I am a coward, I am brave, I am loud, I am broken, I am whole.
I am That.
I am.”
Want to know more about Brenda? Connect with her below:
https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Brenda-Biekx/2373358920
https://twitter.com/biekxynormous
