The Forest Is Changing Me // Story 12 

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Such a beautiful and fun and honest video! ❤ Love your content Christine!

I'm so thankful that you're taking over all the work of chopping our firewood from now on ❤😘

I'm sixty, I watch you two and I think "they are so young" but then I think "these two are being AUTHENTIC, with each other and with us" and then I know why your age does not matter. Wisdom comes from listening and learning - the young can be wise and the old can be shallow. Authenticity is challenging but it also leads to all the best places in life and in relationships. It is good to see you both doing your best to be authentic... my best "today" is my perfection today and that is enough. I wish you both every deepness, every joy and every strength in your journey.

Right. When there isn't your own space to work, you're not just interrupting his work for instance, but his flow. And it works both ways; feeling like you have to 'walk on eggshells' is not conducive to relaxing in your environment. Or if he was making noise while you were working. The build-out will be like a bit of a breath, but you know that. Awesome job cutting wood 💪🏼 Good to 'see' you again :) xx

Good to see you're learning the ancient art of wood chopping! It's quite fun once you get the hang of it and it's good excercise too.

"And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul" also one of my favourite quotes. I LOVE to be in the forest, to connect to myself and to nature. I can´t imagine a life anymore without a forest close to my home. I left my home, my family and friends when I was 21 old and moved from Germany to Norway (alone). It was not easy in the beginning, but it was the best decision ever in my life. You are making wonderful videos, Christine! I wish you all the best with your life in the forest, together with Kalle and your dogs 💚

Agreed, you can’t pour out on others if you’re not filled up yourself!

Love this the excitement you have in learning to axe cut is exactly the excitement I have. I remember when I learnt to split smaller pieces with a knife and the back of an axe and I was having the best time ever

Honestly expressing ones emotions to each other is key to meshing a harmonious future together. Peace and Light.

Wonderful video as always. Seeing the thumbnail and title, I couldn't help but think about you embracing your inner viking amazon, axe in hand, conquering the world :D only missing some medieval armor. Those pancakes look delicious. Yummy.

Just wanted to say, that I'm happy to see you choping wood. :D My thoughts are, and I'm nearly 50, that you never know what life brings. Please don't ever become one of those women, who excuse treir helplessnes by saying "but my man... but my husband always does..." You never know, when you really need to sort it all out by yourself. You will going to be thankful that you then have those skills already.

It's nice to think about an extra space, an extra cabin log. What I don't get is why it has to be Kalle's space instead of being a space that both if you could use in turns or something. This is what I complain about in Kalle's video that it sounded selfish to me. It's like: 'I'm having my own man-cave, my space, myself'.. it sounds just like: me me me.. instead I think a better way, not selfish way of doing it would be: "WE are gonna have extra space that both of US can enjoy and use." I think both of you deserve to use that extra space 😘

I'm 49 years old and that was possibly the most awesome conversation I've ever witnessed. Beautiful 💞

I love how you two talk to each other and are so honest and real on /off camera . Yes, you need to do what works for you both and build the cabin so it grows with you both and your future family . Future proof it as your forever home .

Lovely video Christine. It's wonderful to hear you laughing again. And I love that you are both so honest about your lives.

Hi beautiful! I wonder if you can buy a little tiny home/shed to have as an office until you have your home expansion built? Something around $1000-$2000 I have seen many people do that and they use it seasonally. Ahh I know exactly what you mean by needing space when you are always with your partner! Don't feel bad for getting frustrated with your man. We all feel that way about others, even in a bigger home!

Hi Christine I love watching you and Kalle talk and work through things together so openly and honestly in a calm loving way. That's how a good healthy relationship is. Both people need their own space and time to their selves even when they're madly in love with each other, no one can stand being together 24/7 without some sort of outer time either alone or with different people (family friends etc) You're such a beautiful soul and I am glad you are back

Thank you for sharing such an honest and genuine glimpse of your life. This and your joyful energy inspires me ✨🤍

you two are literally the cutest couple i've ever seen. you seem so much in love, my heart always melts watching you. may this fire you feel for each other never stop burning!! Warm greetings from Germany!

In this video it felt like I was getting advice from a close friend 💚✨ apartment living is really difficult for my boyfriend and I, so we're really looking forward to moving up north and having room to breathe. You're not alone in needing healthy space from a partner! Also, that wide-legged wood chopping stance was just great 😹

Thank you for yet another wonderful video, Christine, and thank you for your honesty and vulnerability. I love the way that you show up as you are. You inspire me to create space for softness, stillness and authenticity 🤍

It is good that the two of you are talking about space for each other

Ohhh so beautiful and wholesome Christine. Living in a tiny space can be so hard, I can’t wait to see your cabin dreams come to life.. 🤍

Your laughter is infectious. Keep smiling and enjoying life's journey.

Kalle is totally right about needing your own time and space in the relationship to make the relationship with the other person work. The way my boyfriend and I do it is not sleeping at the same time. So we are partially off by 4 hours in our sleep so we get time to ourselves.

Christine, I thank you so much for your supporting videos and especially Newsletter! I don't know how you do it but the letters always come so right in time! I mean when they are so needed! The last one was so full of healing and loving and kind energy. Thanks for your great soul and opportunity to know these simple but forgotten wisdom, that WOMEN AREN'T SMALL MEN. I send you all my warmth and woman's support too! God bless you!

Like I said to Kalle, if you don't love your self you cant love others.

What a beautiful video. Me and my BF had the same discussion as you and Kalle. We also live in a small cabin with little space. I work from home and he is currently unemployed. Having your own space is so important. And even though I love spending time with him, sometimes I just want to be alone. The good thing is that we have found a way to be alone together. He walks around in his world and I in mine.

Thank you for sharing the struggles of living in a small cabin! I also live in a cabin and it can get quite lonely at times.

Forest... for’rest 💚 beautiful relaxing video xx

your whole attitude, personality and vibe is simply beautiful

That wood splitting part was just the cutest! I have a lot of respect for axes and the pride that fills me when i'm able to chop up some wood is priceless! ♥

Hi Christine, great job learning to chop wood!❤️

Love your honesty ❤️ It does not take away from the beauty of your videos. I can relate to you wanting to have your own space. I think, it's actually pretty common. Love from France!

You beautiful authentic people... Open and honest communication.. Love the contents and your lifestyle.. 🌸🌿💚🌸🌿

I love her beautiful laughter and she radiant smile.

Such a beautiful video, Christine! I loved the wood chopping scenes and the 2 of you discussing the build-out of the cabin. You 2 are so wonderful together! 💚🌲

Hej Christine and Kalle, thanks a lot for this beautiful video and your honesty.. It was nice to know that we (my Partner and me) are not the only one's having this conversations..because we had almost the exact same discussion while living in a small spaces together.. =) ..so thanks for sharing your story. Lots of love up north..

Wow beautiful day beautiful place 😍 😊 ❤

Thank you for sharing with us the reality of living together in a small space. I live in a small apartment with my partner and always wonder why it is so hard for us while the Internet is full of couples living perfect lives in vans and tiny homes. So I really appreciate your honesty and showing that it is absolutely normal to feel frustrated sometimes 💜

Nature heals!

I know exactly what you mean when you talked about this feeling of being alone in the forest. I don't live in a cabin like you do, but my town is surrounded by forest and my apartment is only a few meters away from it. Everytime I venture alone into the forest, I feel so connected to myself and the environment, it even feels a bit like an awakening of my true self. The forest and nature have made a big difference in my life ❤ I hope you are doing fine and can enjoy the beautiful spring!

Hej Christine! It’s so good that you and Kalle can talk to each other so honestly. This kind relationship is very strong. And lovely to see that next winter is already prepared and you chopped all that pile of woods 😂. Anyway you will get a lot of muscles when you are finished with that work. Hugs from Gävle

Absolutely love your videos! They always fill me with so much peace and let me know I’m not alone in wanting a more simple life ❤️

I love the confidence in that last swing of the ax while splitting wood 😁👏

♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you for being honest, open, and so, so lovely.

Cream on pancakes? I'll have to give it try! So nice to see a new vlog from you Christine.

Hi Christine, your story is amazing and I can really relate with a lot of your personal story,..you are amazing and I love watching your journey,..you feel like a good friend of mine!!!! Have a wonderful day!!! 🥰😘😘😇

Thank you for sharing, watching this filled my heart with so much joy and peace🥰🙏🧡

There is something so peaceful and down to earth about your videos. Thank you for all the time and heartfelt love you and Kalle put into your videos. To be loved so deeply by another human being is such a blessing! Have a wonderful week sweet Christine! 🥰🙏🦋🌸

I loved this video and the honesty within it. I live in Canada and wish I was slightly more North in the treeline. It's so beautiful where you are!

living in creation draws you into your realer realm/ and scrappy sacred majesty, creations willing is our best guide./ breathing out in a sacred delicious way draws the breath in /telling people to breath out first is ass backwards/ tell them to feel delicious and that draws in the deepest breath after you breath out with little grunts to real for the modern slick ears /but how creation works when your in a forest alone/the Native American better then yoga healing way (word meaning of delicious is feeling highly pleased and pleasing!lol

Tack Christine, vilken underbar film 💚💚🌲🌲🥰🤗

Thank you for your honesty!! So refreshing. It’s how life is . Plus side is it’s in beautiful surroundings !!! 💚🌿🌸

I know we only see parts of people's lives on RU-vid. Usually the best parts but you can really tell these two love eachother. So wholesome.

I am so impressed you were able to split the log. I am pretty sure I can't do that. You and Kalle always put a smile on my face when you chat. I can understand the need for having your own space at times.

What a beautiful video Christine

Christine!! Your videos always always always inspire me and give me that moment of self care and self love that I constantly forget that I need and deserve, i've been so off recently , off of my mind, off of my soul, working and working. Thank you for remining me so kindly that I need time for myself❤🍂🌲🤗

Thank you for your lovely video! Always love to see a littlebit of your life in that beautiful area. Your film is very ‘hygge’ ( cozy, is what I mean by that ). Take good care!

I love your honesty, both of yours. It’s so refreshing (an encouraging!) to see both sides of the coin, and seeing the challenges as well as the pull of the simple lifestyle. But you guys also radiate love and a great communication between the two of you that the outcome is encouraging and makes me think of my own life, how could I overcome my difficulties better / more effectively with even more transparent sharing of my thoughts and emotions. You always give me some food for thoughts, thank you! Love & hugs 🥰

Thank you so much for sharing part of your lives with us. You even share your heart to heart conversations with your boyfriend and it's a really good example of what a healthy relationship looks like! You're videos are always really calming and peaceful and I definitely needed that today. So thank you thank you thank you!! 😊

Our own space is so important! Thank you (both) for your honesty. I feel the similar… and I can get very grumpy and resentful when I don’t take enough care of my space. I think in daily life ‘owning’ as in feeling comfortable enough to claim our time and space for me is like a journey to sparkle. Thank you, Christine… it’s been a while since I wrote you, but I always get so peacefully inspired by your videos! Much sparkles ✨ Vi

Thank you for this beautiful video Christine

I am so glad that I found your youtube channel, your videos bring me such joy. Keep smiling, tusen tack för dina underbara videor ❤️

I've just finished watching this really nice video of you. It's a caress to the soul knowing and seeing that other people are living the life I'm planning to live in the close future, it gives me hope. Life in contact with nature just amplifies every single shade of it. And yes, I think personal space, in a relationship is fundamental, so that you can always make sure to take care of yourself and of the other properly. Thank you for sharing your video and your point of view! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🥰

This is how we are meant to live 🌲❤✨ Seeing these glimpses of your life warmed my heart, I can remember how intimidated I was too learning how to chop wood for the first time 😅 As always, you've reminded me of and reaffirmed many things I'm going through in my own life, like honoring and respecting that even in a beautiful, healthy relationship, we still need our own healthy time and space to keep in touch with our individual needs and energies. Thank you for being so honest about what life is like when you make big changes like you have.

Hi Christine.. I have no Idea about how did I miss your video?...it never happened before.....but nevertheless, it's a great time when you're editing a new vlog. You both are so cute even if living in such a small space is not always that iddylic. Take care. May your projects get realised very soon....🤗

I really enjoyed the honesty of this video, very relatable ☺️

❤❤❤ Christine, you're so wonderful. You easily win over Kalle in the wood splitting competition ❤❤❤

I also learned to chop wood this winter. You did so good! I love watching your videos! Thank you! I signed up for the newsletter :)

You are beautiful in so many ways. The last scene was artistic perfection

what a beautiful and touching video, as usual

Love Kalle's videos, and recently discovered yours. Love your point of view.

Ahh, I loved this, such good chats with Kalle! I want pancakes now ;) Also, seeing you chop wood made me chuckle because I do it the same way😂. I’m gunna sign up to your newsletter xx

Bra jobbat med vedklyvningen! Övning ger färdighet som vi säger här! :) Härlig att kunna få vara ute i vårsolen nu med! ☀️🤗

Beautiful video - your life looks so cozy and serene. Loved the scene of you by the fire outside ❤️ Hope you are able to realize all the upgrades you are dreaming of. Sending a big hug 😊

It is a privilege to watch your fascinating vlogs. Please continue to spread calm and peace with your beautiful voice in an otherwise chaotic world. Best from Canada!

Very good video Christine!

Such a beautiful video again Christine ❤ I'm always so grateful for the way you open up with so much honesty, it really helps a lot with placing some of my own emotions and things I'm experiencing ☺ Ever since I moved to Sweden at the beginning of the year, I've also been feeling SO tired. It's been really confusing because I felt like living in the forest was supposed to energise me instead, but it's been really hard to get into my routines and be more active. And listening to the beginning of your video, it just makes so much sense. It just takes time for the body and mind to adjust to this big change from city life to the forest, so thank you SO much for sharing that! 🙏 I'm looking so much forward to our Women Circle meeting this summer and have beautiful conversations with our small group ❤

I get that being in the same space all the time is hard and it sucks that it's negatively affecting the relationship, but I do think it's very common, so dont try to make it work if it doesnt. Dont try to force yourself to be happy like that just cuz some other couple on youtube seems to have it figured out xD Especially when working from home all the time it must be so frustrating. Hope you can find a solution thay works for you both! :) make the house bigger or find a new house or something

Such a wonderful video - came at just the right time, sitting here painting while it’s raining outside this really completed the coziness and peace of the moment ✨🤗.

The way I see it, that yes, you love each other, and you are living in a small space, as in the cabin. Yet, you are your own person, an individual being, who has its own inner world and that world is different from anyone else's world. This means it is crucial to have your own space and have it respected, to be in a flow together, as this is what everything is. Long message with a quote as moral of the story (I think it is Khalil Gibran's the prophet, which I can only highly recommend): Let there be space in your togetherness.

Love it! Have a great week everybody and know that you are loved!

Your laugh makes me smile every time. Love you and thanks for sharing with us

Yeeei! You go girl 💪🏻🪓🪵😁 Thank you for another lovely and beautiful video! ❤️

Christine, both beautiful inside and out. I am so glad to see you at peace, thank you for sharing your journey however hard, with us. You are an inspiration. Sending much love.

Thank you for sharing your life. I love when you you guys are together just talking about how hard it is to be together, work, function etc. Its all about compromise & giving eachother a little space at times. Kalles bucket referenced the bucket theory it is a great model. I've been married 41 years & time, space,respect,patience & mostly love has been a great key. Have a blessed week my beautiful friend 💖 🌟

And thank you for sharing the morning conversation about the space living together, very interesting i totally understand you both

The forest always changes something❤️

I added myself to your newsletter I am looking forward to receiving it …. Blessings and Thank You 🙏 Christine xoxo 💋 oh and great chopping wood 🪵 just keep practicing you will get better with time it is a awesome 😎 skill chopping wood 🪵 is a stress reliever

you are such a sweet, wise soul Christine💚 thank you for inspiring me with your energy! I will always be reminded to honour the pure melodies of nature after watching your videos 🌷

Lovely video Christine ❤️

Blir lika glad varje gång du lagt ut en ny video. Du utstrålar sånt lugn och positivitet 🤗💕

I love you guys thank you xxxxx

much love ❤️

You are very inspiring!! Thank you!

Always love your videos Christine. Your Honesty living with others that is no fairytale. Keep being you. Now I'm off to make some pancakes :)

Oh this video was soo calming and hontest

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