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Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. 🦋

Suzy Kassem

FUN (OR NOT SO FUN) FACTS ABOUT ME ☺

❊ Space fascinates me a lot. I have those times when I watch a lot of documentaries about space, and just wonder what the universe is like. It also makes me feel calm and small. I realise we’re just part of everything else, made from the same ingredients, and literally just making a circle in space. Our beautiful planet is so tiny, not to mention us! 🪐

❊ I was horse riding for some years and it was my absolute passion (and therapy). However, I felt something wasn't right so I took a break - and I'm still on that break. I realised, I didn't like the way horses were treated and teached through pain. I felt it was often more like abusing rather than creating a connection together with the animal. 🐎

❊ Messy life = messy mind. When I put concrete things in order, the things in my mind also fall into the right places. I guess that’s why I often start fixing almost anything available to get a clearer mind haha. Can you relate? ✨

❊ I was accepted into a few very good universities after working hard for it, but I decided to deny the opportunity. Why? Because I trust my abilities and believe I'll be accepted again when the time is right for me. It wasn't then. And I'm proud of myself that I was brave enough to hear what the wisdom within me was telling me. 🧘🏼‍♀️

❊ I often analyse my dreams. I see a lot of dreams when I sleep, and I believe they have such a powerful connection to our subconscious. How fascinating! 💭

❊ I find the Japanese philosophy of life so interesting. I've been carrying an idea of it since I was a young girl but now, I'm getting into it way deeper. I'm currently reading a book called The Japanese Secret To a Long Happy Life, and what's also super great is that my work/business is related to Japan, in many ways!! 🇯🇵

THE GARDEN OF MY SOUL 🌷🌱🌹🍀

Last year was new to me in many ways. Such things happened that broke the walls - the walls I had struggled with for years. After all, those walls had been broken for a while.

It led me back to the basics. Once again I sat down with myself and asked: who am I? What is my purpose in this world? How can I be well? What is happiness?

And just: how do I feel right now? I tried to answer myself this question brutally totally. And promised myself to do my best to change the things that made me feel miserable, repressed, and hopeless in one way or another.

Last year, I really felt for the first time that I can pursue my own happiness, in my own way. It was actually a decision that I felt I will finally make - no matter what. It was a decision that I will be enough exactly as I am, whether it is just my own truth or the truth altogether.

It was also a furious decision to create the conditions in which I feel sincerely respected, unconditionally loved, and genuinely accepted. And most of all, it was a realisation finally reaching my emotional level telling me I can feel good. And be me. And feel good. And be me.

For me, it was the final point to let go of fear and a sense of detachment.

And so I decided to sow this new feeling, this new seed I had planted in the garden of my soul. I said to myself: I am going to sow it with love. Root it. Water it. Turn it towards the sunshine. But I'm not going to put fence around it. I am not going to set limits on it. I'm not trying to protect it from life. I want to trust it. I believe this seed is the one that will survive. And I promise to do my part for it.

Also, I won’t set time limits for its growth. Life flows on this planet and in this universe under its own pace. If we try to speed up the processes with our own impatience and fear, we cannot expect anything brighter from the outcome. The same thing if we do nothing at all. Sometimes, the processes are as fast as a click of our fingers. Sometimes again slow, eternal.

This leads us to one of the greatest insights: the power of letting go. We have no control, never had, and never will. We can decide what we say and do ourselves, but let’s leave it at that. That is better and it must be. Being able to let go is the greatest wisdom. That doesn’t mean something is lost or irrelevant. It is respect for the fundamental laws of freedom and life. Self-respect. Respect for others. Letting go often brings something incredible in its place: serenity. Love. Trust. ❤️

REDEFINING MEANINGS 👑 WHY IS IT SO CRUCIAL?

How we approach different things in life is based on learned knowledge that has, over time, seized into our subconscious. In other words, it is all built knowledge in interaction with the life around us. And that knowledge doesn’t always serve us or is even relevant.

I think it all starts with how we define success in life and also, how we define the process towards that. Our mind has learned to combine different things and our job as individuals is to question those connection. For example, is the suffer, stress, hurry, headaches, and a loss of energy really needed on the way to success? Could hard work be something else? And what about the success itself: what is it for me? Can success be called success anymore if it comes on the way of wellbeing, happiness?

Life doesn’t have to be dancing on roses. Usually it never is. And in life there are circumstances that we can’t really influence so much, or at all. But too often we take things as they are given to us, without questioning, without taking the responsibility of ourselves. And at that point, it may be needed to redefine some things. So I did. And I encourage you to do the same if you haven’t already done so. 🧡

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

- Annie Dillard

So simple, but so easy to ignore. We often have a state of mind that tells us "then when". But "then when" will never be.

Stop postponing your dreams and well-being. ❤️ If they really matter to you, they should matter already. Nothing is certain except this moment and constant change.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. 💖

Carl Gustav Jung

HEALTHY HABITS RATHER THAN STRICT ROUTINES 💪🏼

Why? Because routines often tend to be control - or they might become by time. Generally, behind control there is a fear. I believe, we don’t want our fears to take over our lives, and pretend that we are choosing it all because it makes us feel good. It is easy to lie to ourselves.

That is why I choose healthy habits rather than strict routines. Healthy habits leave space for variation, flexibility, change, and imperfection. When something doesn’t go after my plan, I don’t feel stressed. I let it go, and I do what I can instead. 🍀

Also, I don’t always need a plan. I go with the flow. There is no need to calculate life around routines, or stick to punctuality. It’s about balance, enjoyment, self-connection, and a pure need. Health is a pure need. And if we listen very carefully, our bodymind tells us what is needed and when. 🧘🏼‍♀️

Therefore, it is respect for our body and mind. How? By not deciding how we feel before we feel.

Lots of love & healthy habits! # # # 💓

FREEDOM 🕊

What is it for you? How high do you set it on your value scale? How does freedom feel physically in your body? How does the mind living in freedom feel?

If you value freedom, how do you empower that feeling in yourself and its existence in your life? 🌱✨

THE POWER OF THOUGHTS 🔥

It is normal to think what if… But it is unnecessary to think that the outcome would be something negative. We are the creators of our lives, and it all starts with our thoughts. So it can be said that our mind creates our reality. 💭

What kind of reality do you wish to have? ✨ Promise yourself to make sure that your mindset supports your dreams. 💛

I have one important message that I want to deliver to you today!!! 🍀🦋

Take risks.
Step into the unknown.
Live after your own truth.
Believe in love, trust, beauty.
Forget statuses, expectations, opinions.
Learn to face your fears and live with them hand in hand.
Let life happen in you, and through you.
And finally: remember that your time on this planet is limited - BUT FULL OF POSSIBILITIES. Please promise to grab the ones that feel just right for you. ❤️

Hey beautiful souls! ❤️

Please TELL ME, I would love to know!! 👇🏼🌏😍

1. What has been your favourite destination in the world so far?
2. What food culture do you love the most?
3. Which continent is making you the most curious right now?
4. What do you prefer: big city/beach/nature/activity?
5. Is there anything that makes you scared when traveling?

YOUR REALITY IS YOUR MIRROR ✨

Sometimes, I feel very frustrated. First, I start by finding all the issues around me; what is not well, what could or should be better. I feel unsatisfied about so many things. At that moment, I feel like all those things are the real cause of my frustration. At that blind moment, I’m under my emotion, unconsciously.

Afterwards, I think about it. I realise that I’m frustrated about myself. And everything else around me is mirroring this frustration of myself. And as long as I don’t understand that, I put the blame on external things. It also means that my satisfaction, wellbeing, and happiness are depending on external things. I feel I don’t have much power over it.

Can you relate? 😶

We both must know it's not like this. Even if it would feel like an easy way out by giving the responsibility to someone or something else, it's just impossible.

Or maybe you feel the exact opposite: you wouldn’t give it away for any reason.

Either way, we carry the responsibility of ourselves. We may get help, support. We may share the path with other people. But no one can be you, take your decisions, or live your life for you. It is you.

Why am I frustrated about myself then? Maybe I am not taking all the actions I would like. Maybe I don’t allow myself to love this moment with all its imperfections. Maybe I feel disconnected, lost, powerless. Maybe I constantly feel like I should be somewhere else, at a different stage in my life than where I really am. Maybe I’m really missing something external that I need to be able to implement something. Maybe I don’t know how to forgive, accept, and let go. Maybe I’m afraid of something and it takes my ability to act the way I want to.

In any case, there is a solution. There. Is. A. Solution. Even in the darkest darkness, there is light. And I’m saying this with experience.

What is the frustration in you? How can you overcome that? Only you will know. Be honest to yourself. ❤️

What makes you excited? What gives you goosebumps? What puts your soul on fire? 🔥

Feed that.

Allow yourself to feel good.

Allow the downhills as well.

Let life happen in you. ❤️

Hey there! ❤️

It’s been a few days silence here on my page, and now I’ll tell you the reason why! 🥰

We (my boyfriend and I) traveled to THAILAND! 🌴🌺🐠 And the last couple of days, we’ve recovered from the jet-lag as well as landed mentally. This really feels like a dream. It’s been over two years since I’ve been outside Europe. And not only that, but now I heve a truly different position in my life: I am able to decide where in the world I want to be and for how long. I work online, I love my work, and it gives me freedom in many ways. And most importantly, it feels so purposeful for me.

But.

Let’s make it clear: this page is not about me. It's about you. Us.

I am here to share my lifestyle, experiences, and mindset. By working online, I am able to live life according to my deepest values, ​​as well as encourage sustainability, and many other things I value. And I'm more than happy to introduce what I do to be able to live as I do. 💧🌱

You have that chance as well. If you are curious to know more, please don’t hesitate for even a second to message me or visit my website. 🥰

Let's become the change we want to see around us.

Lots of LOVE.

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Happy Earth Day! 💙

We have two homes: the planet & our bodymind. 🌎🧘🏼‍♀️

The planet does not belong to anyone. No one owns it. It is. And we are. We are here, with other living beings, to share this miracle. This world is the reason we are. And still, we behave as if we are above everything else. As if everything is depending on us and as if we are the center of everything. But no. One day, we will become the soil, like everything else. The cycle of life continues.

Perhaps, it is the fear of death that drives us far from our deepest essence. Far from being equal to everything else. Being mortals. Being tiny. Being a part of life. Life is a constant change.

The amount of energy is always constant. It just changes form.

We are energy.

What a gratitude to experience existence. The world. Meet other beings. People. Animals. Living. Lifeless.

But how do we treat the planet and all its beings? How would you treat another person’s property that you get to borrow? Indeed. This world is not ours. And even if it was, wouldn’t it still be logical to treat it accordingly? Respectfully, appreciating, wondering.

After all: this universe is not dependent on our existence. Rather, we are indeed dependent on its existence. And well-being. Our well-being correlates with the well-being of the planet and vice versa. Not one without the other.

So, where do we start? 💚

YOUR BODY IS YOUR TEMPLE 👣

For me, eating nutritious and clean food is not an accomplishment. It is not a diet. It is a deep need. The loss of this need tells me about the faltering of the mind-body connection and biological homeostasis. 🧘🏼‍♀️

And not to misunderstand, an occasional cinnamon bun (for example) is very well part of it. I bless my food and enjoy it with good vibrations. 💓 I believe that’s the most important part after all.

How do you see food as part of well-being? 🥰

A kindly reminder: it will always be now.

I see life as a journey to discover creativity within us and thereby integrate into everything. I see creativity as our deepest essence, which, however, often ”disappears” after childhood.

One of my missions on this planet is to connect with mine and thereby create goodness for myself as well as for everyone and everything else around me.

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

Lately, I have been thinking about the contradiction of the style by which individuals are motivated, and overall the way of finding one’s deepest meaning in this world. 🌏 I watched a youtube video Two years as a monk - What I have learned. The monk summarized something I wanna share with you. 🥰

”Especially in the western world, everything is about me: my goals, my plans, my agenda, my dreams. Me, me, me, me. We work so hard to serve ourselves, to build our identity, to build our living. And that is okay. But here the rules are completely different. We are actually trying to let go of that identity. No one cares about your degree and your credentials. It is about developing something different. …. You are trying to lessen your ego: it is not about my agenda, my goals and my dreams - but really, what can I do to improve the community now. How do you serve others? It is not just me, myself, and I; what do I like and what do I want. But what is the best for everyone else around.”

I believe there is a natural balance between serving both ourselves and the world around us in the best possible way. But I feel like almost everything around us is, indeed, trying to make our world look like it is all about me as an individual. There are many good things about an individual worldview, but I believe it also misleads us in some things. It kind of blurs what should be found: unity.

What if the real happiness comes exactly when we start looking away from ourselves - when we start doing something good for the life and the world around us; when we start being a part of this world instead of trying to stand out from the crowd in the eyes of other people. There is more than just us: me and the others. There is us: everyone and everything. I know it sounds hippie, but that is how far we have come from our deepest essence.

And that is what I think has become a destroying issue.

So how can we find lasting satisfaction, happiness, motivation, and peace if there are no roots - unity, oneness?

(And now I am talking about something that lasts even if everything built collapses - even if we lose that everything. Because that everything is not our everything.)

What thoughts does this evoke in you? ❤️

Do you know the situation when something ends in such a miserable feeling and you might think like “of course, that’s how it went again… knew it…”.
However, it could be seen from the point that we've actually found some kind of safety in suffering or disappointment. As if we would always expect the worst. And then it happens. And on top of all that, we get satisfaction in some strange way.

Yep, there are situations whose outcome doesn’t depend on our actions, and where we've been acting rationally and ”right”. But often, looking back without various filters and emotions, we can say that perhaps unknowingly, we actually led the situation to end in this exact way.

It is easier, of course, to blame the circumstances or other people.

I always think about that somehow funny and on the other hand sad fact that human really seems to be the only animal that creates suffering for themselves by themselves, with no benefit. Our brain is incredible but good always brings new challenges, I guess.

Fear. Fear often tries to make sure we are safe. Where the fear reaction kept our ancestors alive, it is often unnecessary in today’s world, even harmful and restrictive.

No anger without fear. No evil without fear. Often there is also fear behind inconsistent behaviour. Fear may have arisen from childhood trauma, and most of our fears have been, indeed, learned. Fortunately, learning means we can unlearn and then, learn again.

After all, we are very tiny beings, minimal parts of the universe, vulnerable, lovesick, fearful. We try to cover all this under our hard shell. We are building an armour between us and the outside world, because we may experience isolation, fear. Often, however, that hard-built shield lets us down. As we thought it was a solution, it only turns out to be a spiral of suffering.

I have my own armour, too. And let’s just say it’s downright damn hard to totally strip it. And at the same time, nothing could be as natural and joyful as taking it off. Contradictory.

How scary it can be to just be me. And to believe that I am enough and deserve good. ❤️

Hey there! 🌹

There’s a reason why you've found your way here and that's why the first thing I want to say is that you are WARMLY WELCOME. ❤️

Let me introduce myself so you can have an idea who's behind all this. 🥰

I’m born and raised in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. My eyes are green but some say, there are shades of brown, yellow, and blue as well. Maybe that’s why I see the life so colourful and powerful! 🌈

I’m forever a child of nature. Literally. I’ve spent, more or less, my entire childhood in the woods. My kindergarten was very special in that sense: we ate and played in the nature, all day every day. We learned from the nature in the nature. Summers I spent in the countryside wondering in the woods, swimming in the lakes, surrounded by animals and serenity. Therefore, nature has become my happy place and grounding spot. 🍀🧘🏼‍♀️

My favourite movies are from Hayao Miyazaki - have been since I was a kid and still are. Does My Neighbour Totoro or Spirited Away say anything to you? 😍 Harry Potter, in turn, was my escape world when I was younger. Books alongside nature have been my healers. Nowadays, I still read a lot. Sometimes I have a mood for novels, sometimes for self-help/educational books.

I have no siblings. My dad passed away when I was one year old. Since then, it’s been my mom and me. Luckily, I have the most helpful grandparents. They've been, and still are, a huge part of my life.

I met my boyfriend in Greece, summer 2019. At that time, I was working as an overseas tour guide. My destinations were the United Arab Emirates and Greece. I started traveling regularly at the age of 15, and have continued ever since. I don’t travel for the sake of traveling. I travel to experience. I travel to feel different atmospheres, energies, vibes. I travel to meet new people all around the world. I travel to learn and understand history, presence and future from a new perspective. I travel to spread and deepen love inside and around me. 🌏💓

My spiritual journey started in the beginning of my high school years. I wasn’t good either mentally or physically. 😶 I felt I had no other choice but to make my mind my strongest weapon. Both my worldview and self image collapsed. And they were in thousands of pieces until I realised there was nothing to build. Slowly, year after year, surviving from life changed to embracing life with all its spices.

Right now, I feel incredibly good. 🥰 And that’s all what matters. I’m in love with life and everything it has to offer me. I'll never be ready with myself but my heart is as open as it can be for this forever continuing journey. I’ve promised one thing to myself: the only way is up. Even if I fall time to time.

My biggest passion is holistic health. 💧🌱 I’ve spent years studying and exploring that area. It’s my way of living. I’ve also worked as a natural product consultant and it has given me a lot. All in all, I think I’m very thirsty for information and learning. 📖 I educate myself everyday in one way or another. I’m also aiming to continue my university studies later. My field is Anthropology and Development Studies. The funny things is that it could be pretty much anything from geography to arts since I’m interested in so many things. 🙆🏼‍♀️

After all, this page is not about me. It's about you. Us.

I am here to share my lifestyle, experiences, and mindset. By working online, I am able to live life according to my deepest values, ​​as well as encourage sustainability and other things I value.

And I'm more than happy to introduce what I do to be able to live as I do. 🍀

Let's become the change we want to see around us. ❤️

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