Sovereign Living Strategies

Catherine’s experience designing a lifestyle around personal sovereignty and family legacy. This includes subjects like homesteading, decentralized geography, bodily autonomy, alternative health strategies, personal finance, etc…..

Magico Mexico – Five Reasons We Love Mexico – Our Decentralized Geography

Ever since my first trip to Mexico in 2018 I knew that I must spend a significant portion of my life living in Mexico. Its not a place I can relocate to immediately – We are REALLY happy raising our children as a part of the homeschooling/homesteading power-center known as Bastrop County, Texas. Mexico is […]

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My Personal Year of Less

Year of Less: Financial Sovereignty and the Great Downshift

Its the second day of 2026 (as I write this, it will publish a few days later), and I have already finished reading my first book, The Year of Less by Cait Flanders. I read this book ultimately by accident (story for another time), and I am so SO glad that I read it exactly

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Porcfest Panel 2024: Walk the Walk

https://youtu.be/eZB4VR9NXd8?si=bbheiYcKeRs7foCchttps://youtu.be/eZB4VR9NXd8?si=bbheiYcKeRs7foCc Summary In a dynamic 45-minute panel at the Porcupine Freedom Festival titled “How to Walk the Walk,” Catherine Bleish Bonandin moderates a discussion with fellow Liberty movement veterans Danny Sessoms, Jay Noone, and Carla Gericke. These “Porcfest and Anarchapulco OGs” share their journeys of living in alignment with their values, offering practical insights and

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Benefits of a Decentralized Geography

Sovereignty can take shape and be expressed in countless lifestyle choices. Off grid homesteading, global digital nomading, high tech, low tech, fast paced, slowed down – the common denomoter is that *you* chose the path because you *own* your life and you have made the choice to exert supreme authority over your existence. No that

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The Benefit of Conflict in Relationships, and the Real Reason You Have Drama in Your Life

Conflict is an inevitable and unavoidable aspect of all human relationships. You are guaranteed to experience conflict in some form during every relationship of significance you will ever have, including (and maybe most especially) your relationship with yourself….. While healthy conflict must happen for a relationship to stand the test of time, drama should be

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