WIND OF being stuck
In Finland we don’t have the bloody carpet, we use rugs and we wash them with style in summer. The second picture is the essence of Finnish summer, sauna and palju also known as wood fired hot tub, the lake is just behind the palju.
(june) july 2025 newsletteR
Hei you amazing humans,
How’s time, energy, and movement going for you? Did you manage to ditch some excuses from your life in the past 6weeks? Any big changes and improvements, tools to find more time and balance? For me, June has felt like the most stuck I have been in a very long time. The absolute best thing about this is that my screen time has been so low that people could question whether or not I’m living in this century. I closed my laptop in mid-May and this is the first time I have opened it. I decided to really switch off, have been using the phone to check urgent things, but everything else has been on hold. It helps when your phone is so ancient that it works partially in 3G and doesn’t work in most places, haha. I was waiting for my brain to fire up and create millions of new ideas, but it turned out to switch off as well. My time has been split between missions for family and catching up with friends, the rest of it has been sauna and sleep, so maybe after a reset, everything will fall into place.
Being still has turned out to be much harder than expected. I really thought I would be better at it! All the missions around me (mainly family-related) are not my missions & decisions, and I can only offer my help; I can’t do them for people. Waiting is constantly hanging around, waiting for a decision or an action or nature to take its course, is hard. Waiting kind of freezes you a bit when you are not living in your normal day-to-day life, where you can busy yourself with mundane tasks. This has really made me think of wellbeing and work. How easy it would be if I could just fix everything with my decisions and take action for every client. Unfortunately, this is not how wellbeing and the human body and mind work. I can help and support, but I or any other practitioner cannot fix, the work needs to be done by all of us by ourselves. Every action we take is based on our individual values, to be able to change, you need to question your values. Everybody wants to feel better, whatever it is that makes you not feel 100%. The question is, is it bothering you enough to take action? I have been asked to create a way to motivate enough, make stretching and mobility fun enough to maintain the habit, to simplify the diet enough to be able to follow, but the truth is that nothing is ever enough if it isn’t high enough in your values. Question your values, change your life! I have been forced to question a lot of things in the past few weeks, and my reactions and responses to different situations, people, and material stuff have not always been perfect, but every single one of them has made me think why I reacted the way I did and that is the key for change. Every day life doesn’t have the luxury of time to think about everything, but you can still be mindful and take baby steps towards awareness and change. The winter challenge for you is to question your values. As always, writing things down makes it more powerful.
Wellbeing has always been high on my value list, because what’s the point if you feel like sh** all the time. If thinking of your life values seems like too big of a task, think about your wellbeing values. What you already have and what more you would like to achieve. It’s quite amazing how strongly we all defend our habits and limitations, with a sentence “I can’t because...” Most of the time, it’s only you unwilling to change that is truly standing in your way. Most things don’t change overnight; they change bit by bit with quite a small effort at the time. My brain is still brewing with ideas on how to help and offer more tools in the future, but at the moment, the brew is not ready yet, most likely BECAUSE I can’t think clearly when I’m this far away from my cats, haha. See, excuses are easy, and sometimes there’s a hint of truth in them, but never let them stop you.
5 more weeks and I’ll be home! I cannot wait! I miss the cats, ok, also humans, my house, my routine, my work, my life. Bookings are open from 11th of August onwards, and I’ll be more zoned in to reply quicker in July as well if you have anything on your mind. Stay warm and well.
Love
Kaisa❤️🐾
My favorite helpers and supporters this summer, my mum and cats. Cats are ridiculously hard to encounter in Finland these days, also one of the reasons why I feel so at home in NZ, they are everywhere.
