Gemma Spake

This was my number one priority when I moved to London.

I knew I needed to find a gym, a nail salon, a local cafe, a local library that I loved just as much as the ones that I had left.

Um, with side note, this didn't go as well as I wanted it to.

I found like my dream gym, honestly, a gym that was better than the one, um, I had back in Australia.

I was like so excited for it.

And, um, it actually burnt down.

It burnt down within like, this is not, this is not a made up story.

I got a year long membership.

It burnt down two days later.

So that we can laugh, laugh.

Otherwise you'll cry about this, but

Commit to just finding the things that you know you really need in a location in this new place so that you have both that attachment to what you really loved and were grateful for and also this new excitement for how this is showing up in your new life.

Thirdly, I would say days that you are not feeling good, whether that is today, whether it is in a couple of weeks, get outside.

First, get outside.

Second, come back and get cozy.

Both things are equally important here.

You have to find the balance.

I cannot overstate the importance of

keeping busy and the importance of adventure in keeping the honeymoon period and the honeymoon phase of a new place alive and ensuring that you don't get stuck in convenient routines, not chosen routines.

If you want to overcome your homesickness, you've got to treat every single day like it is your first day in this new city.