MY STORY

I have always liked an active life

I have always been someone who enjoys working, taking responsibility and having a lot going on. I still do.

I like challenges. I like finding solutions. I like being involved and feeling that I am moving things forward. My daytime work is an important part of who I am, and I genuinely enjoy it.

For a long time, I also believed that being strong meant being able to keep going. If something was difficult, I would simply work harder, find another solution and move forward.

And for a long time, that seemed to work.

When everything became too much

At the end of 2020, I went through burnout.

It did not happen in one dramatic moment. Looking back, there had been signs along the way, but I had become very good at ignoring them.

I was tired, but I kept going. I was stressed, but I told myself it was temporary. There was always something that needed to be finished first.

Until eventually my body and mind simply said enough.

That period was difficult, but it also became an important turning point in my life. It made me realise how easy it is to lose contact with ourselves when we are constantly focused on everything we have to do.

I started asking myself questions I had never really stopped to ask before.

How am I actually doing? What does my body need? What does rest really mean? And how do we notice that we are getting close to our limit before we cross it?

I wanted to understand why

When I started to feel better, I became very curious about what had actually happened to me.

I did not only want to recover. I wanted to understand why I had ended up there in the first place.

That curiosity was one of the reasons I started studying Basic Medicine at Tunsbergs Medical School.

I wanted to understand more about the body, stress, health and the connections between different systems. But in many ways, I was also trying to understand myself.

The more I learned, the more I became aware that wellbeing is not only about what happens when something is already wrong.

It is also about learning to notice the smaller signals much earlier.

Trying, learning and discovering

My curiosity did not stop with theory.

Over the years, I have taken part in different courses, classes, retreats, ceremonies and sessions. I have explored mindfulness, breathing, sound, cacao and other practices.

Some experiences were powerful. Some were simply interesting. And some were not for me at all.

I tried things on myself first.

I wanted to understand how they actually felt, not only how they were described.

Little by little, I started collecting the things that genuinely helped me. Practices that made it easier to slow down. To breathe differently. To become more aware of what was happening inside me. To create a pause before simply continuing with the next thing.

And perhaps most importantly, I learned that these practices do not need to be complicated.

Sometimes a small pause can change much more than we expect.

There is no single answer

I do not believe that there is one practice, one method or one answer that works for everyone.

What helps me may not be exactly what helps you.

And I think that is completely natural.

What I do believe is that we can become better at noticing ourselves.

We can notice when tiredness is no longer just tiredness. When stress has become something we carry every day. When our thoughts never really switch off. When sleep changes. When we stop enjoying things we normally enjoy.

And perhaps, if we notice those signs a little earlier, we can also do something a little earlier.

Before everything becomes too much.

How SF Nature came to life

SF Nature grew slowly and naturally from this journey.

It was never about creating one particular method or telling people how they should live.

For me, it is simply a space where I can share some of the things I have learned, experienced and found helpful along the way.

Today, that includes NADA, sound, breathing, mindfulness and cacao.

Different practices, but with something in common: they all create a possibility to pause for a while.

I still love an active life. I still love my work, challenges and having things going on.

But now I understand much better that balance does not necessarily mean doing less.

Sometimes it means learning how to create small moments where we can stop, notice ourselves and reset before continuing.

Why I want to share it

I know what it feels like to realise too late that you have been pushing yourself too far.

And I also know how much it can mean to discover small tools that help you come back to yourself.

That is what I would like to share through SF Nature.

Not promises. Not perfect solutions.

Just experiences, practices and small possibilities that may help someone notice themselves a little more, relax a little deeper, or perhaps find something that works for them.