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Monletter n°15

Monletter n°15

by elinaclb | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

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Cologne, will be my base for most 2026. A new be Cologne, will be my base for most 2026. A new beginning, an exciting beginning. Thanks to our friend @meganboegman we could discover Cologne recently and chose that city to ground for the upcoming year. I am excited to live in a city, having access to a diversity of activities / culture and yet being able to run in the forests and sunbath near lakes all within a walking distance. Thanks to another dear woman @intuitivewoman.official, we found a little nest that we will call home for the next months. So in 2026, if you want to work with me in person (photography, massages, 1:1 mentoring) - or simply grab a coffee which I'll be very happy too - you will find me mainly in Cologne and surroundings. A bit in France (June) and in Portugal (September). Outside of that, I am also traveling within Europe & the world to you – to your retreats – to your weddings – to your unique project. I’m excited for this year ahead and all the projects that are already booked and will still unfold on the way. Where shall we meet ? With love, Elina
Where will 2026 takes me ? Only life knows right ? Where will 2026 takes me ? Only life knows right ? I was envisioning a more nomadic 2026 with no base and the first half year being in South America. Giving me the feeling of being free like a bird, no physical attachments, and going where opportunities are calling me. But what happened over these last month’s made me reflect, on what really serves me at this stage of my life. Through nomadism & longer travels I am seeking freedom, exploration, adventure, expansion, encounters. The thrill of truly being able to live day by day – go where I am invited to go. Seeing incredible nature, discovering new cultures / ethnies, being deeply soul-nourished. And I also know that when I am travelling like this, I have less time to dedicate to my work – less focus windows and to be true, less wish for it. I am in the presence of where I am. During the last half of 2025, I deeply felt the need to commit to my work – to give birth to some offers that are yearning to be alive since a while but that ask for commitment. Which I realized, I was scared of. Scared to lose my freedom through comiting and longer term projects, scared to not be free like a bird. But what if commitment will also give me this freedom ? This was the shifting point. Blurred by a feeling of freedom that I was chasing through travels – I decided to shift my perception and give it a try. I don’t give up on travel, never ever (already thinking where to next winter 🤣) but I shift my 2026’s perception and give myself a base where to root, develop my new offers, and keep going with what I already created, love and do good. Because I know, that is what serves me the most right now. 📸 @elena.freedomseeker
A chapter ended in the last quarter of 2025 after A chapter ended in the last quarter of 2025 after we moved fully out from our cosy home in Monchique, Algarve, Portugal.  A choice, the end of a completed cycle. Probably the richest one of my life in many ways. Where life has supported me / us in unbelievable ways.  → I remember us arriving in Lisbon, February 2022, with our backpacks and not many plans beside the strong call to establish our business and sustaining ourselves with our passions.  Already there, life brought to us one person that will change our life in its core. A person without whom I won't be here with my business and my capacity to go through the waves of it with groundness, devotion & commitment. After 2 months at the co-living Selina, a portfolio that started to build up, some beautiful connections, lots of hopes, some worries.  → We landed at Wild Oasis in Monchique a guest house / retreat center where we settled for 2 seasons. One as volunteer, one as co•manager. These years were incredibly enriching- with endless learnings and growth opportunities. As a team member as well as a space holder. From the books to the reality - of mature & non-violent communication, expressing needs and triggers unconditionnal welcoming, self responsability, boundaries, aware team management ..  That phase of my life, gave me also deep trust in my work & myself- through the many clients I co-created with, their words, feedback, presence, supporting me unconditionnally. I learn by experiencing, and Wild Oasis was the best playground I could wish for to unfold my wings and start flying off. → We spend the 2 last seasons in a very cosy nest, nestled in the Monchique hills, sipping cups of coffee while gazing at the ocean. I wished for peace and life balance, which I received. Fully dedicated to my business, expanding into women's work with the launch of a podcast, a new brand, the first retreats, coachings, circles, workshops while still offering photoshooting & bodywork.  🤍 Portugal gave me what I came here for, the support for the launch & expansion of my business. Unfolding what I am here to offer, step by step, creating my own reality as a multi passionnated creator.  📸 @elena.freedomseeker 🫶🏻
Life's goal isn't about pursuing a life of complet Life's goal isn't about pursuing a life of complete happiness and zero worries but d'rather being able to see the gifts hidden behind life's challenges and be able to be with what's meant to cross your journey.  This is litterally the quote that sumarise my last months of unexpected twists & turns in my life. From envisionning ourselves on a Mexican beach we are sitting in front of a serie in Germany or walking in the snowy mountains of the French Alps.  Life throws individually questions at us : how ready are you ? Transcending what on earth your here to experience, heal, live. How embodied are you ? How much do you walk your talk ? How much can you actually surrender to life in its expansive and contracting experiences ? and she is especially surprising when you expected it the less - when you think that the upcoming travel is exactly what needs to happen in your life for your growth. But life seemed to have seen us ready to experience a different journey - as much expanding, deep, and transformative as different. For a woman, who nourishes her soul with travel, the brutal stop, one week before flying off felt bitter - but deep down, I knew that surrendering, staying with an open heart, and following what's essential at this exact moment was the only way to pass this next level of life. Still internally integrating and learning from this hidden gift beyond the challenge.  There was tears, there was a grief, there was sadness. There was a relief, there was gratitude.  There is a wave of humbleness for life's wisdom and bigger plan and my capacity to be & feel resilient & trustful. I'm not in control of life's higher plan - I'm only responsible for how I react to what's happening on my human path.  I organically withdrew from here to center my energy on what was essential back then. And I'm happy to be back now, with fresh inspiration and yearning to connect with you.
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