How it started: I began to long for - something…

The whole idea of Sensitive Flowasis started with me feeling an itch in my soul, like a pebble in my shoe as I walked on in life. Life was… fine. But I felt this vague longing for something else, something more. This itch started to whisper… that there was something else out there… that felt more like ME.

I had been working as a high school teacher here in Sweden for a long time, teaching English. Sure, I liked it, but what what I liked most was the conversations I had with people, both students and colleagues, about life and how they perceived themselves in their life. Some felt stuck and were looking for flow, and many of them expressed relief and gratitude after talking with me and I knew that this was a feeling I wanted to feel more of. The feeling of contributing to other people’s lightness.

Once the itch felt stronger, I felt that some invisible force was beginning to make my circumstances feel uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that I just hade to make a change and choose something else. In retrospect I felt a bit sad about putting myself through that discomfort for such a long time before I made a change. It was very typical of me to “buck up” and “power through”, which, many people might relate to, I guess. I learned this from my upbringing, but also from the working class area I grew up in. But after many years of working as a teacher it began to feel very heavy in me, to always buck up and power through. At that time I had been burnt our several times, both from occupational fatigue, but also from emotional and compassion fatigue from various hardships.

I began to long for a feeling of freedom and lightness. Was life really supposed to feel this hard? I longed for a feeling of breathing fresh air. I longed for opportunities to talk to people about being real about how we feel. I felt so energetically light when I could be there for people who expressed experiencing more clarity and lightness in life after talking to me.

So, this is the back story to Sensitive Flowasis. The name came to me since I consider myself highly sensitive, like many more around us, around 20-30% in fact. And my vision is that talking with me can provide an OASIS for you and me where our sensitivity can FLOW. An oasis where you can feel completely free to be you, and together with me you can explore what it means to be more YOU, whatever that means to YOU.

Wow… I just wrote my first blog post here (whatever they’re supposed to look like), yay for meeee! Welcome to Sensitive Flowasis!