When you find yourself lost, as your home got devastated and too wounded to let you back in....

before Maria

Imagine a situation where you do not know, where to go next. What move to make next. Your planned move is not doable anymore as circumstances got in the way and force you to a different direction....which direction?

This year I experienced this feeling many times. However now in the month of October I feel the real pain of it. October is my usual month every year to start my winter season in the tropics. Since last October in 2016 I start my winter season in my favorite place: Dominica, W.I. I started last year, not this one.

Dominica just got devastated by the hurricane Maria. This monster storm turned my home of heart, my green jungle paradise and deep sea coral diving paradise into a brown, severly wounded rock in the middle of the West Indian island chain at the East edge of the Caribbean sea.

before and after Maria

In the name of Maria, climate change had sent us a storm of the highest magnitude possible - a hurricane with more than category 5. This cold blooded blender blew, sucked out and ripped off leaves and trees, bursted and broke buildings, vehicles, entire landscapes and the topography of lovely Dominica, even killed nearly 100 people (real number is still unknown) and broke about 73.000 hearts - ours, the hearts of the residents and citizens of Dominica.

I am just a new resident of this beautiful country, who was priviledged to be able to set up my business a year ago and who experienced an unforgettable wonderful time on the island while the last season. In this life I might not have been born and raised in Dominica, however love this country like I was an original native Dominican.

Green Dominica - with its Morne Trois Pitons National park listed as UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE - turned over night into a mostly brown broken piece of rock. Still an unknown number of people left their lives that night, plus 95% of the rainforest is severly damaged up to its roots as well as 95% of the houses are at least roofless, severly damaged or not existing anymore. Dominica has turned into a place beyond wild origin in only one night - the night of September 18 to September 19, 2017. Now Nature Island is appearing as big wound showing us the impact of humankinds ignorance.

After I was able to experience my beautiful start at my new home coutry last October til May 2017, I am now crying from the inside everyday for the loss of this outstanding Nature Island scenery. My soul wants to return to its mother land - the nature and waters of this Caribbean paradise Dominica. I am called to return, but I cannot go there to live yet.

Dominica now is facing a process of rebirthing, pure survival mode, rebuilding houses to live, replanting agriculture, rebirthing existences and transforming the island into a new zone of independence, happiness and abundance. Once trees get green again, hope is coming back and the climate will change back into a livable one. Right now Dominica appears worse than most warzones. This is what soldiers from all over the world stated, after they stepped on the island and moved around to distribute supplies to the people and providing safety. They "have never seen something like that before - not even in real war zones" is one quotation.

Because mankind apparently might have managed to create such a storm, that was able to devastate and destroy this natural paradise within a single night, the people of Dominica lost their existences to make their living. This single night of September 18 to 19, 2017 was a virgo night. Maria appeared as a very angry god's mother in the zodiac sign of a very penetrating virgo. Like virgo style it did a total job within just merciless 12 hours on the entire island of Dominica. As I am virgo myself, I started to think about the pushy side, virgos can have once awakened. Maria was more than pushy. It wanted to give a statement. The name of Maria was well chosen - Maria means the lover of god, the irrepressible one, the bitter one and the star of the sea. So who would still wounder about the destructive power of that accurate lady, that chose to sweep this stunning rainforest paradise just away?

The Resiliants of Dominica rebuilding

Its said, that meanwhile over 20.000 citizens of Dominica left their country as they cannot take the damage and the situation of having not enough food and water. Also we expats either left or did not return for the winter season like myself. We now are united with broken hearts, crying for the loss of so much natural beauty, which is getting rarer and rarer in the world. Dominica has a very precious eco system and attracted lots of nature lovers, healers and people who create an independent natural lifestyle as well as people who just want to live authentic and be themselves. Dominicans mostly combine these attributes plus they appear kind, warm, welcoming to us coming from technique driven, spoiled industrial profit making living zones, which I myself cannot stand any longer. I choose to make a change in the world and started in Dominica. Right now I am wondering why this happened to such an island, which could be one of the best role models for a world, that smothers behind its fake face of pseudo importance.

There are different voices about beliefs - local voices saying it happened because of the dark side of this place. The wicked, greedy, hateful side of humans apparently living there, who are supposed to be punished to be reminded to change behaviour and cooperate instead of backstab. There are other voices pointing on climate change, that affects tropical regions quite obviously before it really affects us in Europe much. On an island like Dominica, such a hurricane hits the people badly. Take Barbuda as example: After Irma, this country needed to be evacuated entirely. It had turned into a non livable zone.

How does this feel to you? Your beloved home is gone over night and you have to leave for good, not knowing if you will be able to return one day, not being able to carry much, as most is gone through natural disaster anyway.

Well, I have to say: this development of natural disasters has to be addressed. The example of Dominica has to be addressed to the world, just as Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit did before the UN parliament the very next days after Maria passed. The ones knowing Dominica with its outstanding rich nature, know about the importance to do anything to transform it back into a green island prospering from its natural wealth.

If the island might have its dark side or not - any place does have a dark side, any human being does have a dark side - at the same time it is a wonderful example of how rich life can be through just living in nature, with nature and in the rhythm of nature. I myself came there as my heart chose Dominica as home. Over the years I could watch myself just following my natural calling. And the ones who know me for years, are aware of my journey around the globe, before I decided to settle in Dominica to offer my work and purpose of being. This island provided all I needed and was looking for and more than that, it was and still is the place, my heart is calling me to.

So it happened, that I moved last year to Soufriere, South West of Dominica, to start my work as freediving instructor and relaxation coach as well as aquatic therapist and psychological counselor.

As I am specialized in relaxation and the release of emotional blockages avoiding deep relaxation and sustainable health, I take my receivers into their origin: body warm water, that we all know from our first months in our mom's womb.

Therefore I work mainly in water - the warm water of the plenty of hot spring pools in Dominica. This stunning jungle all around me provided the best scenery and environment while I was helping receivers to activate their own natural healing abilities from inside. Surrounded by pure natural beauty, you get the picture, you can let go any block inside and start heal your inner wounds. The location is just a reflection of the womb environment, where we feel naturally protected and abundant.

So Dominica is my ground to work and make people understand, what life is about: to live connected with yourself, to be your natural self and accept your natural rhythm and therefore live the rhythm of nature. It means to listen entirely to and follow your heart to get in a natural life mode in order to maintain your health and happiness sustainably plus spreading the approach to infect your loved ones. If we all would connect, the world would be healing fast and we had not conflicts such as wars as well as a decrease of natural disasters.

At the end of the day this is how we create peace and abundance - by starting to work on ourselves and remove all inner emotional "dirt", limiting beliefs and toxic experiences of our life times to get reborn each time and become a most possible loving human being to ourselves and to any other person and creature on the planet.

How else we want to achieve peace and a change towards a decline of these drastic signs of climate change, people in Dominica and other places only this year had to experience?

So here I am, not even close to be affected as much as most Dominicans and expats that lived there for so long, but full of grief like everyone in this situation, asking myself, what to do about it?

Wotten Waven spring pool valley desolated

Turn the grief into positive action and change. Change my own plans and schedule and adapt the new situation. Dominica has to shine again and will rebirth into a more beautiful island that hopefully has learned its lesson towards a cooperating manner in between people to become even a good example in mankind ways to the world. Dominica will rise as nature is strong. Trees already are turning back green, places are being cleaning up and people are getting more and more relief slowly, even if many did not get any up to now, after one month after hurricane Maria. What I admire most with these Dominicans is the way, they take this impact on their lives: with resiliance.

If you have just an idea of resiliance, just come and see one day, what this means to these people. They just stood up the very next morning and embraced their lives and each other plus started to rebuild right away. I have not seen such a fast action after such a huge disaster like on this island.

As I love the place and its people so much, I united with friends to collect donations for feeding the people I know in Soufriere and making sure, they are alright. For over 3 weeks now I am supporting this through Martinique, where my friends are going by own organized fishing boats to Soufriere to safe lives.

Soufriere - from paradise to desert

Soufriere is where I am with my heart and business and where I spent my past winter season. What you see in the picture, is a former green abundant valley - turned into a dry desert within hours. This place has everything: hot springs, fruit trees, green coverd mountains, a river, a coral sea just in front, warm people and music in the blood. People who welcome you and share their lives with you. People who open up to you and be happy with you. Now its time to give back for me and for everyone else who feels the call in the heart.

If you are feeling, you want to share what you have and support the people, being affected from climate change, that is mainly co created by the waste of our industrial nations, you are more than welcome to donate to Soufriere, Dominica, through either posting money via paypal to marianneglobal@gmail.com or simply email me and ask further informations about opportunities.

Thank you for caring and sharing your wealth with the beaten up ones in Dominica. ONE LOVE!

(Note: pictures are taken from recent fb posts related to Hurricane Maria information. Thank you to all for sharing your pics)