Breathing is very important to me. Even so, I discovered what it really means very recently.

I have a memory from my childhood that has stuck with me and I couldn’t understand how come that behavior has shifted 180 degrees since then. I was about 4-5 years old, and I remember that, each evening before going to sleep, I was putting a chair next to my bed and, patiently and mindfully, I was preparing and folding the clothes I would wear the next day.

Fast-forward 20 years, my home was filled with clothes that were surpassing the capacity of my wardrobe, so also my storage room floor was full of clothes. My childhood memory is still in the back of my mind, with the question “how come?!”

Fast-forward another 10 years, I moved to a new house, double in size, and I could finally breathe again! For a few weeks, till I finished arranging it and filled it with all the stuff from the previous one, plus others which I thought were needed. It was also a period where the job that brought me joy in the previous years was no longer satisfying, my relationship was going towards a dead end and I desperately needed to breathe. In this period, I discovered a book in a library: “The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying-Up” by Marie Kondo. Tidying up was definitely not my strong point and I had absolutely no intention of doing it, but the book had that “something” that made me buy it. And read it. And the more I was reading, the more enthusiastic I became. As soon as I finished reading it, I started doing the job. I donated furniture, made 15 big IKEA blue bags with clothes, another 8 with shoes, books… a looot of them and, like that, a “space bubble” created around me and breathing became lighter again. A new relationship, a new lifestyle, newly discovered mentors and people started appearing in my life. Neither a short nor an easy process, but a highly transformational one. One which led towards “dusting” my inner being and slowly letting it re-emerge again from under tons of layers of attachments (material, emotional, mental, spiritual…).

Another fast-forward to “today”: my last relationship became my marriage, my house became our home (as my husband moved from Italy to Romania), we created our digital studio, we restored a 200-year-old house in the countryside (one of my dreams) and I could breathe again (in the countryside house, as the one in the city became to heavy to live).

Since my previous tidying up, I have not accumulated any more things or clothes that I didn’t like or didn’t need, and my husband brought very few things from his previous house. There was space, but… no breathing space. Even if in the last years I have learned quite a lot about energetical space clearing, feng shui, dowsing, astrology, nutrition, body care (I also had a small handmade cosmetics business since my last tidying up), house cleaning techniques, etc., still no breathing space. At this time, Marie Kondo came back very pressing on my mind, so I decided that, as soon as we came back from our honeymoon, we would declutter. Together.

And so we did. It’s a process that requires a lot from you, especially if in a couple. But it is highly rewarding. It definitely takes out to the surface buried things and things that were right in front of your eyes, unable to see them. Initially, the air is denser. Not heavier, just denser. You feel part of a process; no longer the stuck energy. Things start to move. As the decluttering continued, one thing became evident: that we were surrounded by other people’s things, thoughts and intentions (including my “old self”). Presents received, but never actually used; things arranged in my way, even if we were two now; things that we liked scattered around, with no space to shine; my old hobbies and lifestyle that I didn’t actually let go of; memories placed in objects that I didn’t properly let go of; greeting cards that have lost their shine; and so on.

We repurposed a space that was mainly used as a guest room into a meditation and music-creating place; we transformed one of the closed balconies into a walk-in dressing room and, together, we arranged the interiors of all the drawers and wardrobes in the house. By the end of the process, we realized that we regained (energetical) ownership of 30% of the space and the house became a home. For both of us. And I have finally understood “how come” I was so diligent in preparing for the next day when I was 4 years old and completely lost it later on in life: a cluttered mind came in the way and I embraced it. And, like this, the breathing space has been restored.

Hence, my BREATHE method:
Bless – Set an intention
Release – Let go of what no longer serves
Energize – Refresh the space
Align – Restore balance and flow
Tune in – Listen to your inner wisdom
Harmonize – Bring everything into balance
Embody – Live the change you have created

BREATHE – A journey towards a space that holds the intention of who you are and who you are becoming.
An environment that feels aligned with the person inhabiting it.

Welcome!

P.S. Here you can find more about my professional background, if you would like.