Hi, I’m Caren.
I’m a single mum of two star seed children, and for the past several years I’ve been on what I can only describe as an awakening journey. Not the polished, Instagram version of “awakening” — the real one. The messy one.
Before all this, my life was chaos, drama, and a permanent state of fight or flight. It was making me sick. I didn’t know it yet, but everything was about to change.
The Wild Part of My Story
Then came the awakening — and it was wild. Alongside becoming spiritually awake, I also started questioning mainstream narratives, seeing the world from a completely different angle. I won’t pretend it was gentle. It was one of the most ungrounding times of my life.
But something extraordinary happened during that period too. All my gifts seemed to awaken at once. I became an advanced meditator. I started seeing versions of myself through past lives, and glimpses of things that hadn’t happened yet. Eventually, following a vision, I trained as a healer. I became a psychic. I learned channelling, psychic surgery, remote viewing. I ran spiritual development sessions, held sound baths, and offered healing to others.
I spent years rebuilding my life and raising my frequency.
Then I Started Seeing Hearts
Just when I’d finally settled into this new version of myself, I was given a new path to follow. Love hearts started appearing everywhere — the kind of repeated sign you can’t ignore. So I sat with it in meditation and asked what it meant.
What I received was the idea for this site: a dating space for people at every stage of their spiritual journey, whether they know they’re on one or not.
Why This Matters to Me
Love has never come easily for me. My quirkiness, my energy, being a single parent, my age — all of it has made this particular corner of life feel like an uphill climb. And as I’ve healed, I’ve also become far more specific about what I actually want, which hasn’t made things simpler.
But somewhere in all of that struggle, I realised something: there are millions of people out there just like me. People who don’t fit into mainstream society and are tired of pretending they do.
I don’t fit in either, not really. I have ADHD. I question everything I’m handed. I’m led by my heart and my gut rather than logic and convention, and I manage to make almost every new social situation a little bit awkward. But in my world — the world of spirituals, seekers, and people who see things differently — I am held. I’m supported. I’m accepted for every part of my weird.
I want that for you too.
What This Space Is
Not Your Usual Crowd isn’t about fitting a mould. Whether you’re a nature lover, a wild swimmer, deep into your wellness journey, an advanced spiritualist, a warrior in the middle of your own personal growth, or someone just starting to ask questions about the world — you belong here.
This is a space for people who are done with dating built on surface-level swiping and small talk. Here, you can go deeper — with yourself, and with the people you meet. There’s room to be as specific, as quirky, and as you as you want to be.
Beyond matching, this is going to grow into a real community: events, courses, readings, and in-person gatherings, because meeting online is wonderful, but there’s nothing quite like meeting face to face and feeling that instant, unmistakable connection.
Why This, Why Now
So this is where the idea came from — the genuine hope of helping people find love, the way I’ve spent my whole life trying to find it myself.
Well — this life, anyway.
Welcome to Not Your Usual Crowd. I’m really glad you’re here.
— Caren
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