Karine It was an amazing time just that like so many people that are really really busy. Uh it came to the point that there was a burnout syndrome really. I couldn’t move my head anymore. So I went to a very very old doctor. He was about 80 years old and he did acupuncture. He kept me 12 hours on an acupuncture bed. And after that I was completely fixed. So this is one of those really interesting uh episodes in my life that just telling me okay go into wellness. there is so many possibilities for the body to take care of, for the body to heal and so on. So uh then I moved uh away from the south of France and I started to live uh in the Middle East and I found out that basically um travel is one thing that they love like going to Paris, going to London but the whole world is so amazing and you can find a lot of really nice places which are regenerative which are giving a lot of different uh aspect aspects to your health.
Host Yeah.
Karine Not only eating and staying at the beach, but many other things. So, I started this u magazine called Horizon and Beyond: Luxury, Travel and Lifestyle uh published in English and Arabic and um I did it basically until COVID came. So just before the universe sent me a message and told me maybe it’s the time to stop now and for two years during the COVID I was living in the Philippines. I have a house there on an island.
Host Wow.
Karine And um so I had the most beautiful time actually. I stayed there with my daughter. We adopted a dog and so many cats. We had a lovely time. But then it was time to go back to the Middle East and this time to Dubai. So in Dubai when I arrived here I uh I was so interested in in things that because of maybe the time with COVID and the time that so many people they felt kind of lonely and and separated from everything. I I started to take an interest in hypnotherapy and actually into the things that are little traumas, big traumas, whatever traumas from childhood, from later on and so on. And that I studied the famous uh RTT method by Marisa Peer. I studied for one year and I got completely hooked on it because I saw what you know we were a big group of people I think 70 people studying and so we were training with each other and we saw a lot a lot of people that they just broke down in the middle of the the the course because everything came out of their traumatic situations as a child. It was very good. It was very good.
Host You were because you were kind of training on each other. You were doing each other.
Karine On each other. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I found out that many people have difficult childhood. And I adopted uh many years before I adopted two children in the Philippines. And it taught me a lot about how when you raise children, how you have to be aware of what you are saying, how you are treating them and what you have to pay attention to. So I could use it for myself and I could use it then for my clients which was amazing. And this is the time when I started to believe that whatever is concerning your health, your mental health should be the first step. It should be really um it could be a big trauma, a small trauma, it could be anything. But in our in our childhood maybe from from zero I would say to seven uh our logic as a child is not the same like an adult. So we tend to believe things that are not true but that is in in in in our self in our subconscious it’s just there and when we grow up we forget about it but it’s still there and it’s very nice when people come to hypnotherapy and you find out what is the real reason behind the problem they have. So uh I got so fascinated by all of that and when I started my own podcast which is called the invisible prison podcast. I only wanted to relate to mental problems which can be as I said small or big but once you understand that everything is fixable in a way or in another.
Host Yeah.
Karine depending my guests had all different topics. So you can say that there is many many reasons why something is happening to you. It could be even from ancestor from lineage from from your ancestors. Um but it could be also just because the way you grew up and what you heard and what you registered which might not even be true or might be very true.
Host So wow.
Karine Yeah. I I got really fascinated by that and then this one because I had very interesting guests. This led me to think that now I really need to spread the word around the world with a magazine and online magazine that I can introduce so many experts in so many different fields. So people can learn what is available out there. people can learn who to address their problem or maybe just get a a general information about all the things that are out there. And I really love that. I mean, it’s it’s really a mission. It’s really a mission and I think I am blessed to have met so many interesting people and I will continue to meet so many interesting people and I can just bring them out. I can just tell the whole world okay look at this person what he does look at his path you know people sometimes have a very difficult path in life and then they discover what they are meant to be and that is that is a that is an example that I have with almost everyone of my of my guests in the in the podcast and I’m I’m really so blessed. I tell you, I’m so blessed.
Host Wow. Well, the way you’re telling about it, I mean, makes me feel goosebumps because I kind of relate. First of all, the fact that you started the business or started the magazine as a result uh as a continuation of your podcast is very relatable to me because I started my business uh after starting to do podcast. And um how many countries did you live in?
Karine Oh, more than 12, I think.
Host Oh, this is so amazing. I’m always so envy of people who are able to live this life where they’re not stagnant. Maybe stagnant is not the is the right word, but I mean I I always dreamt of living in different countries because it just uh helps you have a glo global perspective on life on the world.
Karine Yes. Yes. But it’s also depending on on your courage, you know. Sometimes courage is one part because many people don’t want to move because they feel afraid.
Host Yeah.
Karine And others just don’t have the opportunity. So
Host yeah,
Karine once you have the opportunity and you can just pack your suitcase and go, you should go because there is always something better waiting. And if it’s just the experience,