the gentle pursuit of inner joy & fulfillment 🌼 

Who is in their gentle era? 🌸 For more background on how I healed from burnout - watch this video: → healing from burnout: detaching productivity from self worth | bit.ly/3l9OkL0

'You might be a different kind of flower' is such a sweet thing to say!

Dear Aileen, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video it is so timely with were i find myself in life right now. It felt like i was receiving guidance, love and support from a big sister. Everything you said really resonated with me, and although deep down i have been feeling like i shouldn't compare myself to my past self, hearing you say it and go into detail was the reassurance that i needed. There were so many point which you made that really opened my eyes, such as not letting past traumas be your motivation for doing things, but to let your natural self who you are and what makes you happy and excited guide you. This video means so much to me and helps me feel like i can be set free from the 'supposed to be's' and just accept were i am and the seasons and journey as a beautiful transition to a new me a happy me in the now. Thank you 🤍💛💚

I love that! I also say: I'm happy with a calm life. We live in this hustle world. It's almost like not ok to say I don't want to hustle. We have to be honest about what we truly want.

I love this. I recently quit my job as a dental hygientist. I felt like I worked so hard for the career just to leave it. I actually feel so much peace but you feel gulity for not feeling productive. if im being honest I love the career because I love titles. I needed this message today.I realize its okay to just be. Truly what I would love to do is become a baker. I'm just going to go for it.

“I was motivated by trauma.” Wow mic drop and big realization for me in that trauma and feeling unworthy was what often fuels the way I treat my body. Big healing ❤️‍🩹 Thank YOU!

I needed this today thank you. 😢 I know all things are possible with Jesus. That is why I keep faith. Lord hear my prayers. I’m so discouraged as a single mother trying to make it on my own both of my sons are special needs I’m constantly struggling to buy groceries, struggling to pay bills but with you by my side Lord I cannot fail. So as I continue to struggle to provide for my children, Jesus I know you will give me strength.

I came from poverty and abuse. I had to feel like I was somebody in order to accept myself. As Ram Dass said in order to become nobody you have to be somebody. Society programs everyone to be x,y, or z. My ego needed to get a master's degree, a career, a house, a car, get married, become a parent, and check off a bunch of hobbies such as travel. When I finally got all of I was grateful but I got bored. It wasn't the stuff that makes me happy. It's living in the moment that makes me happy. It's the journey and the struggle that makes me feel human. I'm learning to meditate and just be. Thanks for your videos.

I agree.. Definitely step back, self care & embrace, change.. 💚💚

Slow and gentle era here. As an artistic creativite, integraing softness through inner peace and joy to simply exist and dance through the seasons is beautiful ❤️ lots of gratitude from Aotearoa!

I believe you can still do big things at a slow peaceful pace of life! I love this perspective! I am so hard on myself most of the time in my mind. I’m constantly telling myself keep going, push harder, faster and battling my want to slow down in my mind.I really needed to hear this! Thank you!

I am an Asian kid too and always lived in the pressure of proving yourself. I grew up being anxious and its still there. But I’m glad that I found your videos and its helping me a lot

Here with you since 2014ish and the funny thing is that you are the same being, the same girl and you always were the same way in retrospection analyses, it was about your singing and now about business, what really changed is your vocabulary, and age and the richness of experiences, you the same persona in the outside view, but wiser, it actually is just normal ageing and also the security of your home and relationship. All your seasons were beautiful and inspiring, and your energy is so calming and inspiring and has always been the same, maybe you see more, and embrace more of yourself by now, and there is still more. I am also a libra, super creative and also exactly the same analytical and a perfectionist in the best way as you are. Thank you, Aileen, for sharing all of you, I love you 💖🤗🔥💃🌺enjoy these times sweetheart🍀🤞🤞

Hi Aileen, this is the video I need. I'm transitioning into a new 'season' in my life. I just turned 40. I quit my job and started working on my own. But, it's easy to get into the hustle culture. Now I'm into a gentler pace of life, following my 'flow' and energy. At first, I could not understand this phase. I felt so guilty for not pushing for MORE - more money, more businesses, more success. It feels like a weird place to be in. Until I found your video. You beautifully capture the essence of the gentle pursuit of inner joy and fulfillment. Enjoy your new home. Live a beautiful life! Thank you! Lots of love..

Dear Alineen, i never think i would leave a comment but i know your channel for many years and recently i just feel so connect to your content. I watch so many of your video and for this video i just have to go back again and again. And i never feel this way with any youtuber before but thank you so much. I love your energy that you give out. Love to hear you share your thought about life like this, this feels like a big comfort for me. I wish you well, keep doing video like this. Again, thank you so much!!! Love!!!

You appear at the right time. It helps. Thank you girl. ❤

I love love love this video thank you been in direct sales for 40 years and I am so thankful for this video I am so deserving of peace love and I want to live slow and peaceful now 💕💕💕

As I entered to your video I feel peaceful and very high vibration thank you for radiating it 🙏

We appreciate your insights. You’ll always have our support.

I'm also a libra and I feel you ❤

the simple joy in life is the greatest.

I really value your affirmations videos…I live in Brooklyn NY…fast paced life everyday. Thoughts can get pushed in the wrong direction for multiple reasons. Thank you for those. This particular video is truly wise…I agree with your expressed thoughts 1000%….ill certainly listen to this video many times more….you and Sadhguru….crystalize paths to feel calmed and even enlightened. Nervous system in balance with thoughts….tricky for me but better with your channel…..thank you!!

You feel so joyful and giggly throughout the whole video and can really tell how much you love this moment of self you’re in now. 💕✨ Love it! 🙏🏽

Thankyou for this Aileen whenever I’m down I watch your videos you have me amazing quotes and sometime you do need to let things completely fall apart before you can get up again ❤

Dear Ailen thankyou so much making this kinds of videos i follow your each and every videos your videos are my go to channel whenever i feel low, overwhelmed, stress, your videos are my motivation everything your videos gives me different level of motivation satisfaction i learn alit from you thankyou so much

I was 13 when I came across one of your videos and today I'm 17 I can't thank you enough for inspiring me guiding me you're like a parent to me thank you and loveeee you a lotttt👀🫂💐

This was the video that I needed to see! I love that you are normalizing just going with the flow of life! You're right, it's okay to take a pause and just enjoy life and really enjoy the moment. I love seeing this new chapter for you and it's made me see more of my life shifting towards this too!

this felt really authentic like chatting w a friend 💎

This was so incredibly helpful to me - I watched it twice & saved it to my "favorites". Thank you so much for taking the time to meditate and journal and be open so you can offer your insights to people like me! All the best!

I AM so proud of you! I AM grateful for your guiding light ❤ You have given me a clearer insite of the peace in my life that has changed my life 💜 THANK YOU 💟♾️🕉️

We can get caught up in comparing ourselves to others, but the most important journey is our own. Imagine you're on a hike. You might see other people on different trails, taking different routes. But your goal isn't to race them, it's to enjoy your own hike, appreciate the scenery, and maybe even reach a personal summit. So keep exploring, keep learning, and keep being you! That's the most fulfilling way to experience this journey of life.🌱🌼 GOOD LUCK!

WOW totally agree with you! Slow living has helped me with this!

Aileen! This was absolutely perfect! Tears of joy are flowing. Your food for thought in this vlog really helped me this morning after a night of little sleep trying to figure out where the heck I am right now and next steps. I am so grateful to you for your words of encouragement and your thought processes. Thank you! ❤️

i agree with what you said about fulfilling our purpose but doing it slowly and gently. im also a mom now and i definitely crave for more slowness in life ❤ but it’s so hard especially working in corporate 😢

Your videos always inspire me to aquire more house plants! 😁 I also need to keep reminding myself of persuing gentle joy, I get caught up in comparison and competition and push myself to burn out, poor mental health or injury. I even look back at old photos of myself when I was slimmer, could run faster or was more toned and make myself feel bad. Like you say some people say to compete with your past self but I have not found that helpful in embracing who I am today, or who I was then. I love the seasons analogy, I'm going to slow down and go with the flow for a while. Thankyou :) ❤

How I loveeeeeeed this video of yours 🤌❤❤ Thank you for your presence Aileen ❤

Hey sister, I wholeheartedly appreciate the efforts you put in your every videos.They are really inspiring and motivating,Some of your videos really helped me to improve myself, i healed a lot from my childhood traumas, started believing that everything will be okay and it's never too late to start a new journey. I am very thankful to you and to me for being so genuine!! Lastly sending you so much love and Blessings sister.(feel happy and fulfilled whenever i see you).❤

I absolutely love you Aileen. I too am living in my gentle era and learning to go with the flow. Your content always inspires me. ❤❤

U cant imagine how much i needed that

Aileen, you look and sound happier ❤ God bless 🌸☺️👼🏻✨ so happy for you

THANK YOU darling!!! You have NO idea how much I needed to hear this now! Thank you for your transparency in sharing your journey. This testimony was very comforting and uplifting! Thank you for connecting with your audience with this much authenticity. I choose, here and now, to move forward with more grace. Much love to you Aileen and to all the lovely people reading this. No matter where you're at right now, you got this!! 💞🌟🌞

I really want to be more gentle with myself because I keep blaming myself since I failed my contract for my side job and the salary is "good". But, whenever I blame myself, on the other hand, I also remember how the customer treats me bad and keeps decreasing the salary and comparing me to the others. Too tired so I withdrew the offer. And the worst part, I am too afraid to tell people around me that I withdraw because everyone "in my head" would say "It could be a good opportunity but you gave up before trying? everyone out there would love to get the chance but you just throw it out!" It's so good to remember Lavendaire and find the solution for my overthinking and yeah, it solved. I need to be gentle, to be okay to say no when I feel it is not right. To let it go when I think I might not happy to do the process. It is human nature and it is normal to seeking the happiness in our live. Live is way much better for not listen what people think, their expectation, and their opinion that it might not helpful. Live is too good to spending with those kind of things.

Ps. your hair looks amazing so beautiful & healthy!

You're voice is so soothing !!! Love you 🤍

The hustle in my younger years was needed for me to achieve my goals and build my foundation. It was hard and confusing because I didn’t know I was transitioning to a more purposeful life. It took a lot of soul searching. my traits are still there, but I’m more aware and is consciously finding new ways to handle myself. Can’t wait to see what my 40s will teach me.

Thank you so much for making me feel relax ,I was so stressed thinking about my future and trying to be so perfect…u reduce me stress..I love u for helping me accept who I am now

This is so comforting to hear. I’ve been really hard on myself lately because I am not the same person I use to be.I am not as consistently motivated and disciplined as I use to be and that has been hard to accept.

Yes 🙌 this resonated with me so much. I recently quit the entrepreneur hustle life and started enjoying the peace and cozy accompanied by a 9-5 job. I was surprised how it felt and how good it has made me feel for a while already ☺️

Thank you I would love to read a book about this and how you over came all this in your life!

Yess!! Live what you love ..❤

こんなに早く見れたの初めて！嬉しい〜😍

Beautiful video, makes so much sense! God bless you Aileen ❤

i never feel so heard….. im 19. my birthday’s 1 day before yours aileen. 10/20. ive been watching you for 5 years.. and i want to talk about my struggles in here or potentially talk about it in my own youtube one day.. so, im suppose to graduate bachelors in college this year, but something in me feels like im not even in the right major or university. my academic life has been so fast paced. if i dont graduate this year, i feel like a failure. ive been comparing myself with my oldself for 2 years or my friends who are ahead of me. trauma from the past and my past mistakes keep haunting .. scared of others or my (used to be) friends are confused of me, feel sorry for me, despise me, talk ab me. i never feel enough. im never enough. those around me may be confused why i drifted away. im off instagram for 2 years. im socially awkward seeing those i used to be close with. i haven’t proved myself to those who didn’t believe in me… i feel like im burnt out when im 19. but im now reapplying to my dreamschool, that i used to get waitlisted in.. im not expecting anything.. but thats all the hope i have left in me… i hope i get in but otherwise my hope is ill be ok and things get better, ill stop feeling like this one day. i rly want others to like me… but that is impossible rn. and im scared of being judged all the time

Aileen, you are always on time!❤ I needed this. Thank you !

Your home is so zen and beautiful!

I love this so much. It gives a whole lot of insight.

I definitely needed this, thank you for all the kind and gentle message, you are amazing 🥺🤍

Wow beautifully said!!! Thank you for sharing!!! I agree too with having a slow and gentle life, with the flow.

I'm happy for you , simply existing and i feel the light energy in you.

This is so timely ♾️ Love it! Love you! Gratitude gratitude gratitude 💛💛💛

Thank you for your inspiration 💛 I'm definitely in a season of getting to know myself better and creating a life I want to live.

Thank you for sharing! Sending you so much love 💞💞💞💞

You look so blooming, Aileen. You are such a gentle, calm, and positive mood.

Thank you for your energy ❤❤❤ listening now and sending good vibes to whomever needs it this morning.

I needed to hear this so much today!

I love this video because it reminds all of us, how far we've come and see our efforts on our journey to now. 😊

Thank you, I have been with you on your journey, I too am on a journey, getting there. Lovely to hear you always❤❤❤

I've been blessed through your contents ,more wisdom 🎉

Your channel is so underrated. Your voice is so soothing. You helped me a lot. Thank you ❤

Thank you so much for sharing your mindset 🫶🏼 I find that it’s really hard to understand what it means to be and feel enough, and I don’t feel like people talk enough about it. You’ve made such an impact on me. I love these cozy videos too!! They really reflect your inner state :)

Aileen you such an inspiration for real ❤

As a human nature it is, to always want more and more, It's REALLY SO POWERFUL to be able to come out and say, I'm truly happy w everything i have❤ I look up to you for a reason!!! I love u sooo much aileen!!!

Love you so much for every time I need you just show up on my feed and love your nature-flowing video like this one so much, feel so closely and intimately to you 🥰

Happy for you and your current state of peace ❤

Thank you so much dearest Aileen for all the encouragement and deep sharing. I have almost been on the cliff of giving up from too long. After watching this video I feel so much liberated and free.

Wow. Great content. Congratulations on your first vid! I am sure you inspired a lot of us! Thank you for share your experiences and thoughts with us.

In our part of the world we often see friends take a slow down and then out comes the pregnancy announcement. Seasons are so true!

❤❤ Before I watched this video, I assumed that even though there was too much pressure or stress on me, I needed to keep going. Now, I realise that.

Thank you! I needed it 🤍

Thank you so much for this video ! It really helps me to understand the importance of slowing down and not feeling guilty because im doing nothing at the moment ( just watching movies and reading books !). Also im recovering from a chest infection, being ill also made me realise that i don't need to push my body all the time and I'm enjoying this time for self care! I used to make long to do list that i never finish to give myself control over my life. Now i don't care anymore. Im just going with the flow! Thank you very much!Namaste !

I can't thank you enough for this video, I definitely needed this❤️✨

I really like this video and need it for my current feeling. Thank you for sharing your real experience.

Soo beautiful, so happy for you! 💕

Awesome videos!! Really resonates with me. Thanks you for it!

I’ve got to work on this get unbalanced to getting a balance life I’m always go go then there are times I just do nothing. I’m just used to always working it’s hard to sit down 🫣🫣😩😩🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️ in the home & outside the home such a great content video thank you very much 😊😊😊😊

You're glowing ✨

Happy for you Aileen! All of the great things you have right now in your life are very well-deserved! I am still on my hustle and anxiety era but hopefully I get to my dream life and mindset soon

You’re amazing as always. Thank you for sharing and helping me be more grounded❤️🙏

thank you

Hi Aileen 👋, I’ve been watching your videos (and following you on social media) for almost a couple of years now, but the impact they have left on me has spoken volumes. As someone who grew up with a background similar to yours, I felt as if you told a part of my life story for me in a way that I feel seen and heard. So for me to say that I couldn’t appreciate you enough for that would be an understatement. Just like you, I was also taught to strive for success (e.g. being a straight-A student, getting accepted by a highly prestigious university, climbing a conventionally well-respected career ladder, etc.) growing up, especially during my time in junior high and high school. Although my parents only asked that I perform to the best of my ability, that didn’t deter other parents from expecting me to feel morally obligated to set society’s ideal example of “success” for the sake of my future the same way they expected their own children to. To make things even more interesting, deep down I sensed that there was something about society’s ideals of “success” that didn’t really reflect the person I know I was meant to become, though I had yet to put my finger on it at the time. As I’ve grown older, I realized that although people have the right to expect me to be a certain person and live my life a certain way, at the end of the day the only person whose expectations should really matter to me the most is myself. Along the way, I’ve discovered so many cool people (including you) who have taught me a whole new outlook on life that validated my thoughts and feelings about the true meaning of being my own person and living my life on my own terms. I couldn’t agree more with everyone who sees you as this big sister whom so many people (especially those who resonate with you and your story) feel not only comfortable talking to, but also enthusiastic about sharing who they are and their respective life stories with. What life could have in store for you for the next few years may be unknown, but regardless, I hope you continue inspiring others to create and live the dream life they know they deserve. 😁 Sending you lots of love!!! ❤️❤️❤️🤗 Ritchie

ngl i fr needed to hear this like i just finished my highschool almost 2 weeks ago and i have vacations untill the results are out which will be around june and i have been feeling like i needa do something i need to be creating smtng outta my life n utilise the time and i legit started feeling very low coz i felt like i was not doing anything?? and ngl that feeling is worst but i think this video gave me some comfort

Operating like nature ❤

This is an outstanding video. So deep, insightful, uplifting & valid. It’s a good one to listen to every so often ⭐️🦋

Thank you this was best one i needed it❤

Thank you so much,I was struggling,believing I don't feel inspire something is wrong

I could relate so much to this. The universe guided me to your channel where I found out you uploaded this new video recently. 🌟

Love the color of your hair!! It suits you very well 💛

Needed this thanks!

Yes to simple slow peaceful life 🌸 You looked calm and relaxed.. enjoy your new home Aileen 💕

You're so inspirational