Where Is Home Anyway?

Ask myself questions.

Lorelai Parks
5 min readSep 12, 2022
Photo by Brad West on Unsplash

Is it where you live? Is it where you feel supported? Is it a physical place or a feeling?

Could home be several places? Is home where the heart is?

I went to visit my family a few provinces away and realized that it wasn’t really my home. I love the time I spent with my family and I wish I could be there more. Equally, it was my home but so is the province I live in now. The province I have lived in for the past 24 years, the longest I have ever lived in any place. They are both my home and maybe one day my home will be in a tropical country.

Since selling a marital home two years ago and finalizing a divorce I have thought a lot about what, where or who is home.

Is home in our heart? Is it deep within your soul? Is it you? Is it a house?

You are home in your body, or are you?

One time several years ago when I was taking a Reiki master course I woke up in the morning and heard my Mom’s voice say “I am on my way home.” It was eerie at first and I texted her right away to make sure she was ok, thinking that home meant God or heaven or the crossing over to the spirit world. She was alive and well.

Later that day in the Reiki class after a guided meditation, I came to the realization that it was…

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