Efforts in a slower, holistic and intentional life,
Hi! Welcome to my channel where a life rooted in intentional, holistic and slow living - anything from travels, soul talks, plant-based tips, conscious consumption, creativity, and whatever else calls for visual journaling. Many things in the realm of decolonial holistic well-being and existence.
Hope you find something here to connect to too.
With love, M.
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This was both our first visit to Greece and just seeing this beautiful island let us know that we definitely need to come back and visit and learn more about such a beautiful country!!❤❤
Thanks for sharing your truth ….. so inspiring ❤
❤ I am glad it reached you🌱🌱
I come from this place, Thanks!
Lucky you! it is beautiful!❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you for taking us to Greece with you and Delphine, Talk soon! 💖
With pleasure!!🌻🌻☺
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Your locs are beautiful, this was so relaxing to watch ☕
Thank you Latoya - I am glad you enjoyed the video🌻🌵
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Love this. Good advice is timeless ❤
as an african woman in the us i def relate to this but can we talk for a sec about how our moms were giving “i don’t want to be a mom” vibes?? bc i, too, asked my mom if she always wanted to have kids and when i tell you i was shocked when she responded w an enthusiastic “yes”?? as a kid i knew my mom loved me, and she worked so hard to provide my family w a stable life (dad tried but mom was always more stable) but she was always so stressed and anxious and tired. so as a kid i felt like a burden. my mom was either at work on her feet all day or at home tired. and w capitalism the way it is, i really empathize w her. that work grind, that persistent immigrant anxiety… the pressure to be a useful, productive african woman… it really got in the way of everyone’s wellbeing. i love and respect our work ethic but now i’m finally learning how essential rest and relationship-building is. thank you for sharing, as always ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your experience - and I do feel you on the pressure our parents were under as well in these contexts and societies we live in. I also think that perhaps many of our parents never even considered the option of full lives without children, so it was perhaps for some, unthinkable because "of course you want to have kids". It is a privilege for us to be able to even question if being a parent is for us and to understand what it could cost us and if we feel we could manage that kind of responsibility.... I have empathy for my parent's generation in that regard; to live in a time of fulfilling expectations rather than knowing you could question and choose what feels right for you. I also try to remember that perhaps different generations judge what makes a good parent and what is needed to be a good parent differently - feeding, clothing, housing and giving us an opportunity for a safer, better life - things that are important but that also could have felt like basic needs to meet for a child, might have been their highest aspirations as parents... In a weird way, it is also thanks to those basic needs being met that we could perhaps have space to aspire for more than just that finally🌿💕
I love how peaceful your videos are. So underrated 🤩
Awww, glad you enjoy them and the vibes!
Girl! I can totally relate. I am the oldest girl from an African country and born in Europe and I grew up in a very difficult environment and the best word to describe it was/is: fear that is all I knew and went through the same abuse you mentionned.. I was constantly put down, humiliated by my parents publicly or not (especially my mother who loves to see me suffer) to the point that my all of my 6 siblings would do the same needless to say that I am the scapegoat yet, they copy what I do till this day. I am the sensitive one, an empath who was parentified for a long time to the point that it felt normal. I grew up feeling like an orphan and that's the reason why I would help even as a adult so that I was not feeling alone given that all these traumas made me have anxiety attacks to the point that I was scared to go out alone. As a child, I would daydream a lot! I wanted to travel and meet different people and despite my anxiety and depression I travelled, learned several languages and loved it. Weirdly enough I feel more safe abroad by myself than with my family of origin, I hate going to my hometown. I also feel behind but I have to remind myself that I am doing the best with what I have. My foundation was made out of chaos and hate. I had to uproot myself and planted myself to a healthier environment . It takes time to grow in this different environment but little by little, I am adapting to a ground of LOVE❤ Thank you😊
I am so glad that you find a way above what you experienced and to still seek and believe that you could grow and thrive somewhere else❤️ I love that for you and for our sensitive hearts🍀❤️❤️
I truly believe that a childhood is a sacred and precious phase of life - and that we would all be better adults and have better societies if our childhoods/innocence were seen as precious and worthy of protecting by any means. If we were raised by adults who too had respected and protected childhoods....If you never got the childhood you deserved, I hope you find the courage, compassion and patience to give your inner-child one as an adult - I hope it heals you and finally allows you to bloom into the thriving adult you were meant to be🌻🌵
this is beautiful I wanna cry & I completely & wholeheartedly agree. I intend on giving my Inner child the childhood she never got & what she deserves.
@@Mara.Isabelle thank you for you comment and I truly hope and wish you the best of luck in making that a reality!🌵❤
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I am not 35 or close to it yet. But I resonate with this so much. In the past I have felt so lacking for not meeting certain benchmarks for my age but I’m really settling into my authentic truth and living and building a life that I truly desire. Not one that others believe I should have. Thank you for sharing your story. It means a lot to so many people 💕
Hi Amber, I am glad to hear that you are carving and trusting your own authentic path - thank you for your kind comment☺🦚🌻🌻
I just turned 35 a couple of months ago, and your story resonates deeply with me. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you and happy belated 35th birthday! 🍀❤️
Wow! Lots of things I can relate to. KZread got the suggested videos narrowed down. I'm a 36 year old queer female living in my RV. 😂
I see I am reaching a VERY exact niche if ever there was one😂😂😂 I love that for us❤️❤️
Hi! I stumbled upon your channel today and I just want to express how much I appreciate this video! I turned 30 at the end of last year and have really started to feel the pressure of certain milestones or societal expectations, both professional and personal, and it's been an ongoing journey of trying to pin down/remember my personal goals and path. I've always known I didn't want a traditional career path and I resonate with sooo much of what you touched on from wanting to find stability in your own way to being first gen and the eldest daughter of an immigrant family, to your views on religion/spirituality, this video made me feel very seen. Thank you for sharing ☀
I am really touched to hear that, I know it can feel lonely out there, but I too feel less alone when I hear of others on similar paths❤️😊 I wish you all the best on yours, that you get to where you dream to be and enjoy the journey there as well!🍀🌱
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Just found your channel and I am in total love. You are a light of humility ❤️
Aww, welcome here! 🪴🪴
I turned 29 yesterday and the algorithm showed me this video just at the right time when I needed this. It can be challenging to create our own path, not follow the norm and what is expected of us by others. I'm still trying to figure out how I want my path to look. Thank you for sharing and being your own true self. Love from Sweden 💚
Happy 29 and I do really wish you a wonderful journey on your own path!🌻🌳
Turning 30 this year & I resonated with so much you mentioned in this video! 😊
I’m so glad I found your channel ❤you speak so much good truth and your energy is so calm. I feel like I see myself in You and that doesn’t happen often so it is very comforting. Thank you for posting !:)
Aww I am glad to hear that and welcome on this little corner of ours! ♥🌿🍀
This was so beautiful thank you for this
Glad you enjoyed it!🍀😊
coming from a privileged black person. I am so sick about this victim mentality of black people. Like only the white people were colonised and enslaved in the past. OPEN YOUR EYES. stop winging
so many gems. thank you for sharing. i’ll be 30 this year!
My pleasure and glad parts resonated!❤️🌱
You've been a guiding light for me. You have been my virtual sister for 6 years now. Happy birthday May. Thank you, you'll never know how much. I'm 26 now, just trying my best... I remember your sister, her beautiful smile. she came to visit you in Brazil you made a video❤❤. I'm not sure I really know myself enough to make these kinds of decisions, but you help me learn how I can.
This is so sweet of you Kemunto🍀🌱 Thank you so much for all your support on my channel and content and it means a lot to me that it benefited your corner of the world!😊💕
Many happy return May, you are blooming as you wander through life. Thank you for sharing your openness, your authenticity. I find it so inspiring and I’m listening to you whilst nestled in bed, pregnant with my second beautiful child (a girl), and writing to her in my journal. Maybe she’ll have a bit of your authenticity in her, I hope so. Stay well, stay happy sister x
Congratulations Sonia on your second baby and that is so sweet of you to wish - it seems she is already lucky to have a mother who thought of writing to her even before she could read...truly touched my ❤️ 💕
Im working on my book. But honestly some days i get very frustrated and cant do much because im so mentally stuck!!
Hey again, I am not sure if you are still in the same situation you mentioned on my recent video - but I can imagine it is hard and tiring to find creative energy when feeling a little overwhelmed by life- taking an intentional break to care for yourself, if that is what is needed, would not mean that your book will never be accomplished - I often find that a rested/cared for mind can bring much more new inspiration and energy for the things I love❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing, I resonate so much with what you said. Im 30 years old and recently one of my friend ask if i wanted to have kids why havent I started. Like you said I dont want to have kids and im not establish in myself. But then I have been thinking lately, what if nothing change drastically years from now, am I just going to keep hoping and letting the time pass me by. I want to buy myself a van and travel the world, create content, im a writer and an Artist. I want to live the life I want to and not be settled for what is thrown at me. I dont want to be force to live the life everyone settle with. Of course I want to get married, I want a home, a garden, kids, a steady income, but I want to accomplish that doing the things I love and not be unhappy and restricted in someone else vision of a 9/5. Usually I work 14hr a day every day for 8 months contract sailing and im miserable for that period of my existence. I figure i wasted too much time living for the world and just want now to be happy
Thank you for sharing your hopes, dreams and journey so far❤️ I can imagine how hard it is to find what you are doing to sustain yourself is making you miserable - I hope you never forget that with just little goals and choices you can find and create your own path to making a living with more harmony and alignment - As long as you are learning, nothing is wasted and since you are a writer, even more - because everything you experience good or bad has the potential to add more depth to your stories and emotions shared. You deserve to be happy and I continue to root for you😊🌱
@@mayiinbloom thanks for that sweet respond💞 I def have goals for bigger aspirations until then just one step at a time👣
Beautiful reflections, May. It's scary and empowering to carve out our own path in the midst of intense pressure to conform stemming from social media etc. Our paths are very different but I resonate a lot with this. ❤
I wish you all the best on your own journey too Abbey❤️😊🍀
Just beautiful. As ever and always.
Thank you Erika❤️❤️
Appreciate you sharing this and relate with a lot of it being an almost 35 Queer Latinx Womxn, living in a campervan w/ my wife and cat, very diff from my family and the norm. I love how you mentioned your emotional and spiritual CV being way more advanced and deeper than the capitalist career one, I am on that same journey! Nice to know we are not alone. Wishing you b~earthday blessings!🎉
Thank you for sharing this! I love knowing that there are others alike out there, venturing on similar journeys but different paths. I wish you and your little family the best of luck in your ventures creating something new!😊😊❤️
...just wanted to say I love your KZread name. Bye!
Thank you!
Hi May and Happy Birthday you still look like a baby, it is crazy to hear you are 35 now!!!! My name is Bianca and I was in your sisterhood circle class back in 2018/2019 (I forgot exactly which year) I recently just got subscribed back to your channel. I also purchased your book back in 2020 and I loved it. I thank and appreciate you sharing your journey with us. 🪷💗💗💗💗💗
Wow, Bianca, from back then?? I am really touched by how long (and supportive) you have been along my journey❤️. I hope yours is a fulfilling one as well dear sis!🍀❤️😊 Thank you for the birthday wishes as well!
Enjoy the rest of your weekends! Also, as mentioned on my instagram, in honor of my 35th birthday, there is a 35% of my ebook In Constant Book (in bio) with a whole new beautiful cover! Until end of May 🌱🌻<3
Just stumbled upon your channel. You are so beautiful!
Aww thank you and glad you found my channel! <3
Three minutes in Gorgeous To God be yhe Glory Wow.
This is so beautiful and needed! Literally every single thing you've mentioned are things I can relate to and that I'm going through right now. As you've said, one of the greatest discoveries we can make is that none of us undergo isolated experiences. We can always be sure that there are people around the world feeling the same things you're feeling, all of us in our own particular contexts. That's a beautiful realization to draw strength and connectivity from. That we're part of the human experience. Thank you so much for sharing. This is exactly what I needed to hear today.
Hello Victor, I am really touched by your comment and it is one of the reasons I also keep on creating, so others like me feel less alone/strange on their journey❤️ I wish you all the best on your own journey, knowing you are not alone😊🌱
Hi - Thanks - From the UK moved to Madrid years ago when I was the kid, now at 32 years of age I honestly can say I hate it! As the friend said we normalized the hate and racism and took it as " its ok " I was not going to let my children grow up the way I did , but where was better? as black people in general are NOT accepted anywhere in this world. We moved back to England, which has its issues BUT my kids now can see other girls that look like them and have some type of community. If you don't believe me go to any spanish football match where there are young black players and listen to the hate in the crowd and sometimes on the pitch!
Thank you for your comment <3 I fully understand why you would not want to raise your child in such an environment honestly . For me as well, in all the parts of Europe I've travelled, Spain has been the place I've met the strongest in your face racism - there are friendlier places to call home for black people and children❤
@@mayiinbloom Thanks for responding: I am married to a black woman from Sacramento and I had brought her out here!! we have two black girls under the age of 10 so it was no longer about my needs. It was and is paramount that I do everything to give them the best start in life especially when it came to the boring but relevant subject of racism and that meant limiting their exposure to white ignorance and ensuring that they mixed and could play with other girls that looked like them! Best decision of my life as the family are happier than happy!
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Your locs are beautiful!!!!
Thank you 💕
Long time no see! Your locs have grown beautifully. 😊 Glad you're doing well.
Thank you Miriam! <3 <3
Hey you! I hope you are well and thriving friend!🪴
You're my fav new youtube discovery! And your locs and impeccable + stunning!
Aww thank you and I hope you like it here <3
OMG my hair thickness is like that too! 7 months in and glad to know I'm not alone.
Best of luck on your journey! 🍀🌱
Great vlog I’m a new subscriber by the way ❤👍🏾👏🏾🤗
Welcome!!🌿🌱
Thanks so much for sharing. Even though I can't say I'm particularly part of your community although I'm also originally black African, I've had and still have quite a few physical and mental challenges such as anxiety which I too have learnt not to be apologetic about and also create space and boundaries for. This has helped me a lot. Learning more about myself and I've become very much less a people pleaser. Putting myself first when necessary without being apologetic or guilty but at the same time sympathising and being empathic where I need to. I hope I'm making sense? In a nutshell we need to take care of ourselves in order to take care of others 💚 Wishing you all the best and stay beautiful inside out! 😻
You are so sweet! Thank you so much for this comment and I am glad to hear that you are also learning to be kinder and less apologetic of your nature and needs friend❤️🌱🍀
That view looks like Croatia?
That is correct! ❤️🍀
Your hair is so beautiful. Can you do a segment on people who has under 50 locs. I only have 39 locs. I started my loc journey May 2022. Have your counted your locs? I spray mineral water on my hair and peppermint oil.
Hello Amalyah (?), I am not sure I would be the best for that since that is not what I have (have 152 locs) and so would not know much about under 50 locs. I am sure however, there might be content creators sharing that might be more aligned with your personal loc journey ❤️🍀