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Awake for Life, Exeter (2026)

27/03/2026

I INVITE YOU!

We live in a time where the options are endless.

There is so much information that it’s easy to get lost and lose yourself.

So many directions, so many “right paths”… that in the end, you lose the feeling of what truly fits you.

We can pause.
Breathe out.

And take a look at what is really happening.

There are things we understand… but cannot move forward.

There are feelings that repeat and drain us.
And there are moments when clarity disappears —
where we are and where we are going.

We can go through it together.

✅️ I offer 1:1 consultation / session
(1 hour | 35 EUR) — focused work on your situation.

In this session, we will:
– pinpoint the problem
– understand what keeps it alive
– separate reality from interpretations
– create concrete steps you can take right away.

We can work with:
– relationships
– personal growth and life direction
– depression or panic attacks
– inner blocks and stuck patterns
– behavior patterns and reactions
– inner roles: child, teenager, adult

This can be just a conversation — if you have no one to talk to about deep and personal topics.

Or it can be a structured process, where we move from “I don’t know” to clarity and action.

About me
I am Kristīna.
I work with people who want to understand themselves more deeply and finally move what has been stuck.
I quickly see the root of the problem and help you understand what keeps it alive — without unnecessary overthinking.

It’s important to me not just to “talk,” but to get to the essence —
to find the knot and know what to do with it.

I combine knowledge with personal experience —
what I have lived through myself, not just read or studied.

I’m not here to “fix” you.
I am here to help you see more clearly and move forward.
If you’ve tried different paths and still feel that something “isn’t working” —
we can untangle it together and put it in place.

If you feel it’s time to gain clarity — write to me.
And we will schedule a time.

Kristīna Smiltiņa
📞 +44 7383 080567
🌿

12/03/2026

EVER FEEL LIKE YOUR WORK ISN'T VALUED - EVEN BY YOURSELF?

Recently life showed me something very important about myself.

About my work.
And about how I relate to it.

I suddenly saw something uncomfortable — but very true.

How much knowledge, experience, and energy I have invested in what I do…
And yet, very often I present it as if it’s nothing special.

Like a hobby.

Something I even feel awkward charging for.

If you don’t fully believe in the value of your own work, asking to be paid becomes hard.

The exchange of energy is unbalanced.
You give your time, your energy, your experience… often almost for free.

And instead of feeling inspired to continue, grow, and develop your craft,
you begin to feel drained.

Burnout creeps in.

Often, it started much earlier — in childhood.

When criticism or the belittling of your self-expression made you feel “not enough.”

And that belief quietly follows you into adulthood:
“It’s nothing special anyway…”

Healing often starts when someone shows you — painfully, clearly — where you doubt your value.

It hurts.

But it’s a mirror.

A mirror showing how you treat yourself.

And then, one moment hits:
No one has ever undervalued your worth more than you have yourself.

When you start respecting your work, your time, your energy, your value —
the world responds differently.

The world almost always reflects how we treat ourselves.

So here’s the question:
Do you truly value what you do?

Because very often what feels ordinary to you is deeply valuable to someone else. ✨

Kristina

04/03/2026

HOW DOES IRRITATION MANIFEST IN THE BODY?

In most cases, irritation has two main causes.
The first is a violation of personal boundaries. At the same time, certain needs may remain open and require closer attention — the need for love, acceptance, understanding, recognition, respect, kindness, and care toward oneself.

The second cause is difficulty satisfying personal needs independently — the inability to say no, fears, insecurity, lack of self-love, indecisiveness, guilt, shame, lack of understanding of one’s own needs, and fear of taking responsibility for oneself and one’s life.

Irritability is an expression of negative emotions or the suppression of them, directed at a particular person, group of people, the surrounding world, living conditions, situations, and so on.
There can be many triggers for irritation.

Women tend to suffer from irritability more often than men, which may manifest in moodiness, emotional outbursts, resentment, and so forth.

Behind irritation there is always an unmet need. For example, when a person feels disrespected, unloved, disagreed with, neglected, argued against, or devalued. Irritation is always about violated boundaries, loss of integrity, non-acceptance of oneself, one’s behavior, or a situation, feelings of powerlessness and weakness, inability to cope with something, as well as carefully hidden needs for love, care, and respect.

Irritation can also serve a protective function when a person carries many external expectations that are nearly impossible to meet. They may fear not measuring up or standing out from others and from commonly accepted norms.

Therefore, any external demand regarding their behavior or expected results may provoke irritation.

If a person experiences irritation for a long time, it may lead to illness, since irritation is a negative emotion. So what suffers first?

🍂 The gallbladder — because due to internal or external prohibitions against expressing negative feelings and the inability to voice dissatisfaction, the body may produce more bile, which can contribute to stone formation, inflammation, and liver and gallbladder disorders.

🍂 Skin problems — which may appear as localized inflammations, especially deep abscesses and boils. When irritation caused by violated boundaries accumulates over time, something in the environment constantly presses, irritates, and overwhelms the person.

🍂 Mucous membrane issues — such as ulcers, gastritis, and gastrointestinal problems. These conditions are common in people who remain in a prolonged state of irritation. They are dissatisfied with what is happening around them, yet for various reasons cannot or do not want to change it. Because their lives contain many situations that provoke irritation, they are forced to accumulate it internally — to chew it over and swallow it alone.

It is impossible to completely avoid irritation because it is a consequence, not the root cause, which always originates within. What matters is recognizing it and living through it consciously.

Try asking yourself the following questions. Once you answer them, feel and process the emotion:

➡️ What am I feeling right now?

➡️ What preceded this irritation?

➡️ What situation threw me off balance?

Look realistically at the people and the situation, because intentionally provoking you is usually not someone’s goal — unless, of course, you are in an abusive relationship.

♻️ Live through the emotion. Allow yourself to fully feel it — this may reveal the deeper feelings behind it.

♻️ Let go of the situation. This does not mean submitting or giving up, but simply allowing everything to be — allowing yourself to be yourself, and others to be who they are: imperfect, mistaken, vulnerable, careless, impulsive, and so on.

All about Love for Life🌿

02/03/2026

ON SUNDAY, WE BREATHED — PROPERLY.

Trance breath.
Movement.
A body finally given space to respond.
We worked with breath to dismantle internal tension patterns — the kind that build up quietly over years and limit expression, energy and motivation.
When the body holds tension, energy contracts.
When energy contracts, clarity and drive decrease.
This session took place in a unique setting, marked by the steady rhythm of a large clock pendulum.
Time kept the beat.
We stayed with the process.
Deep work happened.
Grounded. Focused. Real.
Thank you to everyone who showed up fully.
And thank you, Iveta — together we held a structured and safe space for real release.

BREATH IS A REGULATORY FORCE.
It directly impacts the nervous system.
It influences cognitive clarity and emotional resilience.
It determines whether the body operates in survival mode or in flow.
When breathing is restricted, so is capacity.
When breathing expands, so does access to strength.
Trance breathing is not relaxation therapy.
It is a guided physiological process designed to release stored tension and shift internal state.
No theory.
No performance.
Just structured work with the body.

Next Group Session:
📍 15 March
🕚 11:00
📍 Gloucester
Limited places available.
Message to reserve a space.

Iveta 🧡 Kristina

26/02/2026

“Is This How I’m Allowed to Be Treated?”

If someone has treated you badly and you continue the dialogue, it means they’re allowed to treat you that way.

How others are allowed to treat us is determined only by us.
And the instructions on how to speak to us must be written by us. And that page should be rubbed in the face of anyone who intends to communicate with us.

Preventively — not only when someone has already stepped over your boundaries and confused your garden with a toilet.

Attempts to delicately explain (while trying not to ruin those “priceless” relationships) that you don’t really appreciate them crapping on your hydrangeas will be a pointless fluttering.

Believe me, the person won’t even turn away from what they’re doing.
And when you finally hand them that instruction manual, they’ll simply crumple it in their hands to make it rougher.
Because once someone has already crossed your boundaries, the instructions no longer work.

They are already where they shouldn’t be, doing what is forbidden.
Of course, they’ll apologize for the hydrangeas and promise not to defile them again. They’ll just move on to the peonies.

Once again: if you continue the dialogue, it means this is acceptable.
When I remember all my past experiences, smoke comes out of my nostrils.

I should have slammed the door immediately instead of blaming it on coincidences, misunderstandings, hypoxia, a hard life, and other idiotic excuses for idiots.

Seriously, to hell with your “hard life.”
Here’s a truth from the series “the sky is blue, the grass is green”:

If it seemed to you that a person behaved a bit like crap, it means they are crap.

A normal person cannot act vilely. It’s impossible — even by accident.

If a decent person wrongs you somewhere along the way, they understand it immediately (without you pointing it out), feel genuinely upset, and compensate for their behavior with every means available to them.

You will certainly verify the truth of my words. If not immediately, then later — when you’re tired of believing that it “just slipped by again.”

Even if it “just slipped by” for the fifteenth time, I no longer want it to keep appearing in my life.

And since I don’t believe in second chances (because fifteen more will follow at the expense of your psyche), based on my vast, messy, sh*tty experience, I officially declare:

in such cases, you must act immediately — drive the scoundrel away with a wet rag and without any opportunity for explanations about how he “accidentally messed up in your yard.”

Because your boundaries are crossed with the aim of turning you into a puppet. These are not accidents.
And when you learn to immediately cut off contact with scoundrels instead of crawling into drawn-out drama trying to save them or explain things (if you engage in dialogue, it means you want to be convinced — and that’s not hard),
at some point you’ll discover that they simply no longer exist in your life.

And your garden is far more important than people.
Yes — your garden is more important than people.
And when you accept this as a fundamental law, only normal people will begin gravitating toward you.
The kind who have their own boundaries drawn properly, too.

/Ashotovna/

17/11/2025

5D PEOPLE ARE ALREADY LIVING AMONG US

And here’s how they are different. Check yourself ↙️

1️⃣ When there is chaos around
While others drown in panic, they remain in silence.
Not because they are indifferent, but because they feel: everything is happening as it should.
When something familiar falls apart, they do not cling, they observe.

"It means space is being freed for something new."

2️⃣ In relationships
This person does not argue or try to prove themselves.
They do not save, they do not blame. They simply see the other person — with their pain, defenses, and history —
and do not take it personally. They remain calm, even in the middle of a storm.

"This person is not against me; they are simply not in contact with themselves yet."

3️⃣ When things go “off plan”
They do not get angry, they do not blame life.
They are able to look deeper, understanding that everything that happens is part of something greater.

"If a door closes, it means this is not my path."

4️⃣ In the body and with food
For them, the body is not a mechanism, but a living sensory panel for consciousness.
They eat according to feeling, not a schedule.
Not because “it’s right,” but because the body doesn’t want otherwise. Food becomes a way to nourish, not to silence.

At some point, they may give up coffee, meat, sugar.
But not out of principle — simply sensing: “Now I need purity, not stimulation.”

5️⃣ When emotions rise
They do not run from them, suppress them, or get overwhelmed.
They allow feelings to pass through the body, knowing it’s just energy moving.
Their nervous system breathes, it doesn’t contract.

When anxiety, fear, or tension appear — they do not hide it, they remain present, and after a few minutes it naturally calms.

"A wave is passing, I stay with it, and it flows away."

6️⃣ In action and choice
They no longer “strive,” they allow things to happen.
They live from the soul’s response, not from effort.
If something doesn’t work out, they don’t push or force, they simply realign energy inside,
and the space opens the way itself.

Instead of struggling with circumstances, they pause, listen, accept, and allow things to be as they are — and then everything unfolds more easily than expected.

A 5D person is not about floating in clouds.
They simply live with a different quality of perception.
Instead of struggle — flow.
Instead of fear — trust.
Where there was heaviness — now there is lightness from existence itself.

Olha Khymchak

17/11/2025

10 Quiet Ways a Person Reveals Their True Nature

Some truths don’t shout.
They don’t shake the ground or tear the sky open.
They reveal themselves softly —
in the pauses, in the shadows,
in the moments where no applause exists
and no one is watching.

These are the places where a soul speaks without words.

1. How they treat the powerless.
A heart shows its shape in front of those who can give nothing back.

2. The tone of their inner voice.
What they whisper to themselves is the mirror of who they really are.

3. Their response to disappointment.
When life says “no,” the mask breaks — and the true self steps out.

4. What they do when no gratitude will follow.
Some shine only when seen. Others shine in quiet.

5. How they speak of others in their absence.
Integrity lives in the invisible places.

6. The way they return after a mistake.
The brave come back softer, not harder.

7. Whether they keep their word when comfort disappears.
Promises test the mouth; challenges test the spirit.

8. How they receive truths that disrupt their ego.
Some defend. Others breathe — and grow.

9. The way they tend to their wounds.
Do they numb the pain, or sit with it until it transforms?

10. How they love when loving gets difficult.
Anyone can love in sunshine.
But true character is revealed in storms.

And so — the soul is not shown in achievements, speeches, or masks.
It is revealed quietly, in the tiny choices
that only the heart knows about.

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17/11/2025

HOW EASY IT IS TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY.

To come to therapy, empty your heart, show your life’s “pile,” and secretly hope that the professional will clean it all up in five sessions.
But if that pile has been building for a lifetime — can anyone really shovel it out for you?

And then the person gets stuck halfway.
No money, no strength, no motivation.
Only the smell of what has been avoided for years.
And the question appears: “Why am I not better yet? Why didn’t you save me?”

But the truth is simple — and uncomfortable:

A therapist is not your savior.
A therapist is your flashlight.
Light in your hand, path ahead — but only you can walk it.

And here is my answer, my truth, my experience:

1. Take responsibility for what happens — or doesn’t happen — in my life.
No one will clean up what I continue to add every day.

2. Small steps are still steps.
Even when I don’t feel like it, I can do something tiny.
Breathe. Talk to myself. Untangle a single thought. Release one small knot.

3. Stay honest with myself.
To admit: yes, this is my painful story.
Yes, this pile is mine.
And honesty is the first movement toward freedom.

4. Accept that healing is a process, not a service.
No professional can clean up 30 years in 5 sessions.
But a professional can show the direction.
And the rest — is my journey. My strength. My choice.

This is how it is:
sometimes life stinks,
but that is exactly when healing begins —
when we stop looking for saviors
and start looking for ourselves.

Kristīna Smiltiņa
Certified Therapist

01/11/2025

Perfect choice for today 🌬️💛

Today I rise with the sun —
to hold space for two souls in breath.
Each inhale, a beginning.
Each exhale, a release.
I prepare in stillness —
focused, centered, alive in energy.
Grateful to walk this path I love. ✨️

31/10/2025

YOU

If you cannot help as a doctor,
then as a human being you can offer something even more valuable —
presence, understanding, warmth.

Healing does not happen only through medicine or knowledge,
but through genuine humanity.

Sometimes all it takes is a comforting glance,
a kind word,
or simply being there —
for someone to feel hope again.

Humanity is the power that heals the soul,
even when the body seems beyond reach.

You need help: contact me
Kristina Smiltina
Certified Integrative Breathwork therapist
Hypnotherapist and subconscious guide.

☎️ 07383 080567

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31/10/2025

⚕️ A story that looks like progress… but was really a warning 💀

👩‍⚕️ Doctors told her the glow in her bones was “healthy energy.”

🦴 When she could no longer walk, her jawbone literally crumbled in her hands.

🖤 In a photograph from 1963, we see an elegant woman sitting calmly in a medical chair. Two doctors in spotless white coats stand beside her.
A massive X-ray machine — nearly the size of a car engine — hangs just a few centimeters from her throat, aimed directly at her thyroid gland.

👩‍🦰 The woman looks serene.

👨‍⚕️ The doctors look confident.

🏥 The room — sterile, professional.

😶 No one is wearing protection.
Not the patient. Not the doctors. Not even a lead apron.

☢️ Because in the 1960s, radiation wasn’t feared — it was celebrated!
It wasn’t an age of ignorance — it was the age of modern miracles.

X-rays were a wonder. 👁️‍🩺

They allowed us to see inside the human body without cutting it open.
Fast, efficient, and — as people believed then — completely safe. ✅

👣 So safe that shoe stores installed X-ray machines to measure children’s feet.

Mothers would bring their kids weekly to watch their tiny bones glow on the screen while the salesman fitted “the perfect size.”

😬 So safe that dermatologists beamed radiation onto teenagers’ faces to treat acne — using doses we now consider catastrophically high.

🥤 So safe that companies bottled radium (a radioactive element) and sold it as an “energy tonic.”
Athletes drank it. Society ladies swore by it.

One brand was called Radithor.
Its slogan? ✨ “The Eternal Sunshine.”

💀 A man named Eben Byers, who drank it regularly, died in 1932.
When his body was exhumed years later, it was still radioactive.
His bones had dissolved. His skull was full of holes.

But by the 1960s, that was all “in the past.

Medicine was moving forward. 🚀
X-rays were routine. Radiation was progress.

Progress had to keep moving — not looking back.

👩‍⚕️ The woman in the photograph probably went home that day grateful for her “modern care.”
The doctors filled out their report and saw the next patient.
The same machine was used dozens more times that week.

😔 No one knew.
No one knew that radiation accumulates.

☢️ That every dose adds up.

🦋 That the thyroid — this small butterfly-shaped gland — is especially sensitive to radiation damage.
Years later, thyroid cancer rates skyrocketed.
The very doctors who stood unprotected day after day developed leukemia and died young.
There were no long-term studies.
No one dared to ask the “uncomfortable questions” — because asking meant slowing progress.
And slowing meant falling behind.

💼 Progress had priority.

⚠️ Caution was for cowards.

🕰️ It took decades and thousands of victims before medicine admitted the cost of its confidence.

In the 1970s and 1980s, everything changed:
🦺 Lead aprons became mandatory,

📉 Radiation limits were established,

🧑‍🔬 Radiologists began working behind protective barriers,

🦷 Dental X-rays — no longer yearly, only when necessary.

The industry that once worshiped radiation as a miracle finally admitted it was a poison. ☠️
But it was too late…

😔 Too late for the women whose thyroids were irradiated and who later developed cancer.
😔 Too late for the factory workers who painted watch dials with radium and died with glowing bones.
😔 Too late for the children whose feet were X-rayed every time they tried on shoes.

📸 This photograph haunts us because we know what they didn’t.
We see the danger they couldn’t see.
We understand that the doctors in white coats — with certainty on their faces — unknowingly harmed those they wanted to heal.

💭 But here’s the painful truth:
We’re still doing it.
Today, there are medical procedures we consider normal,

💉 technologies we trust,

☢️ chemicals we use without restraint —
and only the next generations will realize how destructive they truly were.
We just… don’t know it yet.

👩‍⚕️ The woman in the photograph believed in modern medicine.

👨‍⚕️ The doctors believed in their training.
Everyone believed they were doing the right thing.
And they were wrong.
Not because they were careless, but because they mistook innovation for wisdom.
They confused novelty with safety.
They believed speed mattered more than caution.
⚖️ The history of medicine is not just a story of breakthroughs.
It’s also a story of bodies — of real people used as experiments in the name of progress.
It’s a quiet book of victims that teaches lessons humanity could have learned another way.

📷 This photograph isn’t just history.

🔔 It’s a warning.

The doctors looked confident.
The machine — modern.
The woman — safe.

❌ None of it was true.
And right now, somewhere in another sterile room, with advanced equipment and well-meaning professionals,
someone is receiving a treatment that future generations will call barbaric.

We just… don’t know it yet. 🕰️

(Found online)

30/10/2025

🧭THE ROOT OF HUMAN STRUGGLES OFTEN LIES MUCH DEEPER THAN WE THINK

We might believe that stress, anxiety, or fatigue are what trouble us.
But in reality, these are our body and soul reacting to years of tension —
to suppressed emotions, unspoken experiences, and unresolved pain.

💔 Many people learn from childhood to “hold themselves together” — to be strong, hide emotions, and not burden others.
Gradually, we disconnect from our own feelings.
Breathing becomes shallow, the body tightens, and tension accumulates beneath the surface, later showing up as:

– anxiety and restlessness without a clear reason
– difficulty relaxing and experiencing joy
– struggles with trust, love, and intimacy
– fatigue that doesn’t go away, even after rest

This is not a weakness or a flaw.
It is a protective mechanism that was necessary once, but now prevents us from breathing fully — and living fully.

🌬️ Breathwork therapy helps gently navigate these inner layers.
Through the breath, we open the body, allow ourselves to feel, release, and let go.
It’s a safe space where deep healing happens — not through the mind, but through sensation, breath, and presence.

💡 When a person begins to breathe fully, they begin to live fully.
Peace, clarity, and inner safety are restored.

✨ If you feel ready to release tension and reconnect with yourself —
send me a message and sign up for a breathwork session.

Kristina Smiltina
Certified Integrative Breathwork therapist
Mob: 07383 080567
Exeter

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