Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
**Finding My Ikigai: A More Personal Look at the Work I Do**
By SlavicUncovered, Apr 9, 2026
I thought I’d do something a little different this time. Instead of focusing purely on what I offer, I want to share a bit more about myself — my journey, my influences, and how I ended up doing work that genuinely feels like mine. If you’ve ever been curious about what really sits behind what I do, here we go:
Finding My Ikigai
There’s a Japanese concept called ikigai — often translated as “a reason for being” or “your life’s meaning.” It describes that rare intersection of four things: what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can earn from. When all four align, something clicks into place that’s hard to put into words. It makes everything worthwhile.
Before I get into the philosophy of it all, perhaps I should say what it actually is that I do.
I’m a qualified and experienced massage therapist, as well as a relationship counsellor and sexual and intimacy coach — more on those in future articles. That combination might sound unusual at first — but in practice, it fits together more naturally than you might expect. The body, the mind, connection, touch, awareness — these things are rarely as separate as we tend to treat them.
I just LOVE it. All of it. Not in a polished, professional-brochure kind of way — but genuinely, deeply. I love naturism; I love helping people become the best version of themselves; I love the healing power of touch — so I do what I love most, and it’s my work too. It’s the kind of work that still makes me curious, still challenges me, and still feels meaningful after years of doing it.
When I’m working — really working, fully present, with my hands responding to what I feel rather than what I think I should be doing — everything else fades. There’s a calm focus that settles in, steady and quiet. It’s difficult to describe unless you’ve experienced something similar yourself.
But when it happens, you know. You know you’re in the right place.
How Naturism Shaped My Work
One of the more unexpected influences on both how I work and how I see people is naturism.
Not in any dramatic way. Quietly, steadily, over time.
When you spend meaningful time in naturist environments, something quite simple begins to happen: bodies stop being things to evaluate. You encounter all shapes and sizes, ages and stages, and differences — and gradually, it just becomes normal. Unremarkable. Human.
That shift has had a profound effect on my bodywork practice...
Continue to the source:
https://medium.com/@slavicuncovered/finding-my-ikigai-a-more-personal-look-at-the-work-i-do-2d64bc86e981
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