Introduction
May 31st 1981, the planets are aligned, I am ready! My gestation period is over and the water broke, its my time to come out into this world and shine! I sense the excitement in the air…
The saying in therapy is that the way we are birthed defines how we live life…
Welcome to the endless adventures of Livia Maciel!
As soon as the water broke, my parents got the bags, got in the car and drove to the hospital… at about halfway, the car stopped in the middle of the road during rush hour, my father forgot to put gas in the car!
The logical solution was to hitchhike, remember, no cell phones at this time…and no money for cabs either.
I can only imagine the face of the guy that stopped, offered a ride and asked “where can I drop you off?” and they say, “the maternity!”
Yes, the drama began before I began!
Of course the kind driver took upon the mission of delivering my parents to the door of the maternity. He performed his role with success.
At 10:30 pm I entered this world!
One empowering way to look at life is as if we are the creators of our reality.
If we are willing to take this approach, we understand that even before we were alive we wrote the script on the movie it would be this life this time around on this earth matrix.
We wrote our story before it began. We wrote the most interesting tale, and perhaps we nailed the most exquisite details, depicting each second of our existence, each lesson to learn, each trauma and realization and we chose all the characters and their dialogues to be delivered at key times.
Perhaps we were the Director of a movie, and the producer, costume, script writer and photography… We casted the actors that would perform their roles majestically and we gave them the lines…
I wrote a masterpiece best seller of a book and it became a blockbuster movie!
I invite you now to journey into this story I created for myself, to learn valuable lessons to share with the world, just like all of us did! I invite you into my world, so I can show you how similar we all are, even in the differences, because regardless of the array of scenarios we can create on set, our inner emotional journeys are all very similar. Just like the archetypal “Hero”stories of Achiles, Homer, Superman, the golden Buddha, Cleopatra and many other historic characters, the human journey is very simple for all of us, be born into this world, forget our light and then step by step recover it to fully shine into this world and be the Love we came to be!
Our choices to take this journey on different countries, monetary conditions, family disfunctions, cultural traditions and different sexes gives each life different dimensions and layers, yet the core human existence journey is the same!
I now give you my layers! I offer you my pride creation!
My life has been overflooded with the most interesting stories, world travels, fiery romances, colorful outfits and deep questions that unveiled high realizations.
In short, I’ve lived the hell out of life and I offer you all the juice I squeezed in my 40 years of existence…spoiler alert - Its juicy!
I’d love to give it to you in a linear fashion, yet I believe time is an illusion… well I’ll try my best. I will take the liberty of writing it the best and most positive way I know how. Had I written this a few years ago maybe it would be a drama, now I am aiming more at a Rom Com Documentary Fiction a dash of Fairytale dust! Im gonna create magic!
And before you get totally hooked on the most randomly miraculous details of my roller coaster life, here is the official trailer of this movie you’re about to watch…
On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 8:14 AM Livia Maciel wrote:
“Happy New Year!
Every year I have an intention for the year, last year was CLARITY, and let me tell you, I had a lot of Clarity, mostly on things I did not want in my life…
This year is TRUST!
Why Trust? I have no idea what I am doing and lately I feel like I’m on a big rollercoaster ride…
Let me tell you my story & share some facts about my human journey thus far
This is how I imagine it all began… Back when God & my “soul” were negotiating terms and conditions of this lifetime, I probably had to choose between
THIS (GRAPH A)
a content, safe life, with a stable job and marriage, kids a house in the suburbs and I’d drive a Honda ?
or
THIS (GRAPH B)
rollercoaster ride with no guarantees, lots of travel adventures, tons of emotional adrenalin, some yucky failures and enough trauma to make me interesting but not too crazy…
Guess what I chose?
Let me translate all this into key points :
I was born in Brazil, but raised in Portugal.
As a free spirited and curious Gemini, my one big goal was to see 30 countries before I was 30! For that to happen I’d sign no contracts, no leases, no jobs, no marriage… yep Prince Charming would have to wait!
At 30 I had seen 33 countries, and lived in 8…yes I am an overachiever!
Then my father, my hero, the best dad ever…passed away with cancer! Uff that was a tough moment and I could only go though it by meeting God and I embarking on spiritual journey.
I even went my own “eat pray love” adventure around the world. Italy to eat, India where did a 10 day Silent meditation retreat, and of course Bali where… nope no love… All the fried rice I ate filled the hole though…
I found love in Palm Beach when I married a ballroom dancer in the hopes and dreams of conquering the world by dancing in gorgeous Cristal gowns! That was an awesome plan except that he was a raging alcoholic, I was a codependent, and there was a lot that I still needed to learn about myself!
I survived my divorce by creating a new dream of becoming a VIP flight attendant, and getting paid to travel the world on private jets! That dream came true and brought me to live in Los Angeles!
Last year I somehow decided that I needed a purpose in my life, having my dream job flying on a G650 for the most famous movie producer of all times, earning good money, having the cutest cat in the world (whom I named Prince Charming) and 100 pairs of high heel designer shoes was somehow not enough and not fulfilling anymore!
What could I do? Who could I be?
I prayed to God : Please show me the way, please uplevel my life!
And let me tell you how powerful of a co creator I am. God heard me, and answered!
I got fired from the dream job, met my dream guy, fell in love, ran off to Europe to live this romance, got in massive debt, dream guy became another heart break, and on Christmas I found out my father, my hero was an actually a raging alcoholic, another heartbreak! no wonder I married one, Thanks Clarity!
What can I do now in the midst of this confusion that I feel now? TRUST!
Why trust? Because the only way to truly enjoy a rollercoaster ride, is to raise your arms & trust…
I Trust that having survived this ride so far means I learnt something and probably have enough content to create a YouTube channel, write a few books and maybe become a Motivational Speaker…
We shall see…”
This was the 1st speech I wrote and delivered at the TM 90201 Beverly Hills Toastmasters club, a club that helps people become Public Speakers. My “ice breaker” speech was the winner that night and if you want to see it live, head onto my Youtube channel and enjoy the show! (LINK)
As you can imagine, I really had to learn how to trust because only 3 months later, the covid pandemic took the main role on the stage and I not only I had to trust, the whole world had to trust!
At about the time I wrote this speech, I again prayed to God. This time a little more assertive!
I remember feeling so confused about life at the time. Apparently, I had a great life with all I wanted, but something deep inside of me kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, and there was a familiar inner agony coloring every moment of my life.
When I say I prayed I mean I yelled! Like if my voice was trying to reach heavens ( or hell, Im not judging) I projected my angry cry as far and loud as I could! I said;
“Enough! I’ve had enough of this bullshit reality! It all seems amazing but its not fulfilling me! I want a totally different reality for my life! 2020 better surprise me on the 1st 3 months or I will go to a cave in India and meditate for the rest of the year and take 2020 off! Do whatever it takes Universe, take anything you want, take the clothes away, the apartment, the car, the job, take anything left away, even the cat… take my body away if you want… Surprise me!”
Well let me tell you how powerful of a Manifestor I am (and yes my human design is Manifestor 6/2)
At the time I was living in Los Angeles, I had the cutest apartment in West Hollywood, a closet full of outfits, the most gorgeous cat, a convertible bmw and I was the flight attendant on the private jet of a very famous band on tour. Yes I had been fired a few months before, and had lost the “love of my life of 2019” ( yes every year I have a differen “the one”) but I quickly recovered and just like an addiction I fell back into the old life I had… I was making bank and being cool! Temporarily…
March arrives and I come home from a flight, feeling like I was getting a cold…
In what seemed a blink of an eye this cold became covid, LA was in lockdown, my roommate left and went back to Portugal, all my flights for the year got cancelled and I did not have health insurance or any family around. I was sick and my LA friends did not help me at all.
I felt so alone, abandoned and desperate that I even cried live on Instagram asking for help.
Within the next 2 weeks I sold all my furniture on craigslist, I gave away half of my closet, I packed whatever was left and put it of a 4X6 storage on Sepulveda, I crashed my car in an accident and dropped it off in a mechanic to see what would happen later, I took 1 suitcase, the cat and left for Brazil.
“Surprise me!” I said to God, and God delivered!
Today is the 5th of January of 2022 and I am currently living in Miami beach.
My reality has changed totally, both inside and out! My wishes have been fulfilled and I definitely feel like the other shoe did drop! I mean, at this point all the shoes dropped worldwide!
Collective reality itself is not the same, imagine mine.
I am now a 40 year old gogo dancer, I teach a “Spiritual Stripper” womens workshop, 20k in credit card debt, I drive a pink scooter around south beach, I workout daily and I am the fittest I’ve been and the happiest! I created amazing friends, my lifestyle is so much fun, shopaholic me of course created a whole new closet, I found my purpose and I am so happy daily!
And here is where I get to publicly apologize for asking God for a different reality, I guess I created covid you all! Oops!
But ok everyone, lets confess, It has been a fun journey so far!
Growing up I never thought I belonged to this world, I always had questions no one could answer and I constantly wanted to figure out another way to do the same thing. Had I been a child nowadays I’d be diagnosed with add, bipolar, adhd, abc etc etc… glad I chose the 80’s to be the crazy self I was and no one had labels for us “rainbow children”!
And since 2020 let me tell you the Masters degree in life these past years have been!
I finally know why I am here, and its simply to watch this show!
I feel like I have VIP tickets for this human journey premiere!
2020 2021 and 2022 is the best trilogy ever!
