Finding your
way back to
yourself
Holistic wellness guide, ancestral health advocate, and someone who has walked the long road back from lost.
You did everything right. You got the grades, the job, the life you were supposed to want. So why does it feel like the colors have drained out of everything?
— If this is you, you're exactly where you need to be.A girl from
Sweden with
roots in Iran
Friluftsliv — the Swedish philosophy of spending time in nature, unhurried, fully present. It was simply called childhood.
I grew up in a small town in Sweden where life moved differently. We walked everywhere. We spent our days outside with no agenda — just presence. In Sweden, this is called friluftsliv — "free air" — a philosophy of connecting with nature not as an activity, but as a way of being. I didn't know it had a name. It was just life.
My Iranian grandmother's garden was its own kind of medicine. She grew herbs that healed, prepared food with intention, and carried centuries of ancestral wisdom in her hands. I watched and absorbed without realizing I was learning something irreplaceable.
Then I turned 18 and moved to Los Angeles for college. Slowly, quietly, over years of city noise and concrete and screens — I lost the thread. The nature, the stillness, the rootedness I had taken for granted began to feel like a distant dream. I didn't notice it happening. That's the thing about disconnection — it rarely arrives all at once.
A decade passed. I had built a life that looked fine from the outside. Inside, a quiet voice kept asking: is this it? I didn't know it yet, but my soul was asking me to come home.
"The lowest point came all at once. A divorce. A fractured rib still healing. Thirty extra pounds. And then my mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis. I started hiking just to get out of the house. That walk changed everything."
First hike. Every step uphill felt like failure. Showed up anyway.
The hill stopped feeling hard. The body remembers what it's capable of.
Quit drinking — not through willpower, but through movement and presence.
30 lbs gone. Mind clearing. Persian grandmother's garden remembered.
Yoga certified, psychology trained, and here to guide you home.
What I teach isn't invented. It's remembered — from a Swedish childhood, an Iranian grandmother's garden, and a decade of clinical work with people in their hardest moments.
The Nordic philosophy that time in nature is not optional — it is the foundation of mental health, vitality, and belonging. Not hiking as exercise. Presence as practice.
My grandmother's garden in Iran held remedies that pharmaceutical shelves still can't replicate. Food as medicine. Plants as teachers. Centuries of embodied knowledge passed through hands, not textbooks.
A Master's in Clinical Psychology and a decade working with children through extreme trauma taught me how the nervous system breaks — and what it needs to rebuild.
10 years as a therapist specializing in childhood trauma and mental health
Certified yoga instructor with a focus on somatic and nervous system regulation
Certifications in progress — ancestral nutrition, functional movement, and sustainable health
Certification in progress — mindfulness, breathwork, and bilateral nervous system practices
This is for the ones who did everything right and still feel empty.
You're in your 20s, 30s, or 40s. You're not failing by any measurable standard. But something underneath is quietly, persistently off. You feel it most in the stillness — which is why you avoid it. This isn't a self-help problem. It's a disconnection from something ancient and deeply human. And it can be healed.
Your path back to yourself starts with one small step.
Just like day one on that hill — hard, uncertain, and completely worth it.
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