My shadow, my ally

So much things happened with Feng Shuality during those past few months. So I thought to myself, why not start sharing my entrepreneurial experience in total honesty with you, with all its ups and downs? Are you in? If so, let’s do this✨👇🏻

The year 2022 has started quite well with a few Feng Shui projects underway. I also feel a lot more at peace in my personal life 🙏🏻 Normal with such an intense, pretty chaotic end of the year 2021...

I became Queen B, or should I say: the Queen of Break Ups! Yep, I had to experience two ruptures at the same time: professional and personal! What a great way to end the year? 🤪

Well, I don't know why the two breakups fell on me at the exact same time, but let's not forget: after every loss there is ALWAYS a gain. It's the law of balance, Yin and Yang... That means I will have a lot of good surprises for 2022, right 😅?

It’s time for me to tell you more about my year 2021, a year where I had to come along with my own shadow.

Hang on your belts! 😉👇🏻

A difficult start as a new entrepreneur

As mentioned above, a lot of things happened in 2021, I met my business partner who helped me a lot in the commercial and marketing part of Feng Shuality. I, who knew nothing about business management, thought that this new collaboration would be a good thing.

For those who followed me in my early stages as an entrepreneur, you know that we have developed a whole range of decorative Feng Shui products (incense, candles, crystals). These products not only aimed to awaken your senses (the sensuality of Feng Shuality) but also to educate you on the basic principles of Feng Shui.

👆🏻Feng Shuality products (limited edition) exhibited at Djoline Joaillier, Paris

Selection of Feng Shuality Crystals at our suppliers factory 👇🏻

In the meantime, I have worked on great Feng Shui projects including two Feng Shui beauty salons on the French overseas islands (looking forward to revealing these projects to you on our social medias!) and carried out numerous Feng Shui consultations at clients who are now very good friends.

Feng Shuality has therefore become both a company that sells Feng Shui services as well as an online boutique. I was fulfilled in my services and in the workshops I was animating but not on the commercial and marketing part. The more we progressed in this project, the more the communication with my partner became rough and complicated.

Our shop is no longer relevant following my separation from my partner. I plan to get back to it little by little ✨

My move into a not very Feng Shui apartment…

In May, I had to move into a small Parisian apartment, which was not at all aligned with my energies! Even though this place looked great, the Feng Shui analysis highlighted that I was going to experience an intense emotional roller coaster.

Funny when we are doing Feng Shui? So why did I choose it? 🧐

As I often tell to my clients, finding the right place to live is like a romantic relationship. I felt in love with this small apartment for its location, its beautiful light and its calm neighborhood. A rare pearl in Paris! 🥰

In Feng Shui, it is often the apartment that chooses us to be able to put things into Consciousness.

It is similar as an intimate relationship where unconscious minds attract each other to evolve in life consciously.

Photo by planete-deco

Once settled in my new apartment, no surprise, it was really the big mess in my life but really at all levels! Professionally, Personally, and on my health… nothing was right! 😫The Feng Shui did told it to me... That's when I started to dive into my own darkness...

During that time, I wondered if I should drop everything, Feng Shuality, my services, my partnerships because I felt like an imposter. How could I give Feng Shui advice if myself was out of alignment? I had several anxiety attacks that affected my professional and personal relationships.

So I ended 2021 with those two breakups in order to give myself time and space to reconnect with what is important.

Tapped into your shadow to move towards the light

After my two breakups last November, I isolated myself for a couple of weeks to meditate, philosophize and introspect. After hours and hours of solitude, meditation and introspection, I came to the conclusion that the other is only a mirror to come back to oneself and bring the awareness to our shadows.

Rather than accusing the other of being wrong, I believe that we should recognize in him our own darkness, and to love through him. In therapy and as elsewhere, there is no light without shadow and vice versa. I therefore think that it is very important to recognize our dark side and above all not to ignore it. As Jung said:

“It is not by looking at the light that one becomes luminous, but by plunging into its own darkness” Carl Gustav Jung

Making the shadow conscious is therefore an essential step in our personal development. `

To finish this journal, I would like to share that even though we went through a difficult period or think we are losing a battle, we have survived and are still here, and it is in this space in time that victory can really be born: it is in our power. to move forward with joy and humility.

I wish you a lot of happiness, health, love and joy on this new year.

See you soon ❤️

Laurene