Finding Happiness Within 🌈✨💖 My Personal Journey

February 14, 2018

I’ve always loved reflecting, analyzing, getting to know myself better, and observing the processes that happen inside me — and in people in general.

I remember, whenever I tried to look for happiness, peace, love, and so on outside of myself, deep down I felt I wasn’t being completely honest with myself. Something was missing. I could sense that what I was seeking outside, I was actually supposed to find within. But I didn’t know why it was like that, nor how to actually find it in myself.

I recall years ago, one spring day, I was on my way to university, waiting for the bus. The weather was perfect, everything was fine, life should have felt joyful — but I was in a bad mood, feeling that something was missing inside. Then I told myself: “If I had a boyfriend right now, I would definitely be happy.” And suddenly I stopped and made a promise to myself: that I would not allow myself to have a boyfriend until I found happiness inside myself first 😁 Because I knew — if another person became my source of happiness and love, I would never find the true happiness and love, which begins first within me. I understood this, but I had no idea how to live it out in practice.

Time passed, and I attended a training with my mentor Latanstky (Life in the Moment) in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. It was there that I was introduced to The Work of Byron Katie and… everything lit up! ✨☀️

I remember that unforgettable feeling of deep joy, profound happiness, and the realization that I had finally found what I had been searching for my whole life — the way to discover within myself what I had been looking for outside. And I remembered that moment at the bus stop, when I had intuitively felt the same truth: what I was seeking out there, was already in here.

At that training, I even wrote in my notebook that the next year, I must go to Byron Katie’s School for The Work. And that’s exactly what happened 😍 — I studied The Work deeply with Katie herself, brought it back to Georgia, translated her book Loving What Is into Georgian, and made The Work a daily part of my life. It has brought immense changes, and most importantly, it helped me find an incredible strength within — an anchor that reminds me I can face and overcome any problem or difficult situation, as long as I stay open, question my stressful thoughts, and free myself from them. When that happens, my eyes open, and my whole life shifts.

Through The Work, for the very first time, I was able to create the kind of healthy and loving personal relationship I had only dreamed about before. That story I’ll share in more detail another time 💖✨

And if you too feel intuitively that what you’re seeking outside is already within you — and you’d like to discover that strength and anchor inside yourself — join me on March 25 for The Work workshop. I’ll be so glad to share this path and this tool with you, and I know you’ll be beautifully surprised by what you find 😍✨

See you soon 💖✨
With love,
Tina 💛☀️✨