Welcome to EMBODIED LUXURY by Klara Sovryn

This publication frees you out of the lies that kept you from creating the life you want to be living.

Welcome.

Let me explain everything you need to know about my Substack publication “EMBODIED LUXURY” in a few short minutes.

Mission

My goal is to help you create the life you want to be living.

Simple as that. Though not always as simple to make it happen… given that most of us start off living a life we were taught to want.

That’s why I want to help you install some upgrades.

To do it, I need to be blunt. Like Peter put it…

“You see bullshit and reveal stuff I don’t see. At first, it was making me uncomfortable because you’re like the swords energy from the tarot. You speak the truth without reservation. This is so rare in my world. I have learned and changed so much thanks to you.”

Peter Cromwell, CEO of Georgetown Hill Early School

I will also inspire you and give you hope, which may get you moving where you've been hesitating…

“Whenever I communicate with you, it’s like a charge of energy that spreads through my soul and invites me to expand, without fear and with a desire to explore.”

Rubén Outlander, Graphic Designer and Filmmaker

And I'll also make you think differently…

“Klara helped me completely shift my perspective on work. I wanted a career change but I was stuck not knowing what I wanted to and could do, because what I was thinking of as ‘work’ wasn’t how I wanted to continue…."

Tyler, Insight Guide

If you spend enough time with my writing, you will:

• Become more courageous to go for what you want, not what seems easy

• See ways you can do it, not excuses why you can’t

• Stop hiding your real work

• Start living in a way that’s 100% regret-free as you age

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About Me

In short

From the moment I had my pharmacy degree, I've been working on an escape plan. And honestly, leaving employee life to do the solo thing has been one of the best personal growth accelerators of my life so I’ll probably talk about it a lot.

I'm self-taught in digital art and jewelry that makes you wonder how it’s even attached to my body. I’ll talk about that too… when my real jewelry line vol. 2 is out so you can attach it to your body too.

Details

I wanted to explore EVERYTHING… which was FUN but it was getting me into trouble. And I was constantly creating stuff. Of course I’m talking about my childhood.

But then elementary school started and everything changed. Suddenly I felt uncomfortable around other kids. Like I couldn't just be myself. So I started avoiding stuff I actually wanted to do because that's where all those weird feelings came up.

And then there was this constant pressure about grades and performance. For years I was collecting experiences that delivered a message to my young brain and body that I’m safe when I do anything but what I want to do.

So I studied pharmacy… honestly, because biology and chemistry were my least hated subjects, and it seemed like the perfect kick-off into a life where I’d be set and free.

At 24, I was free from school, free from home… FINALLY. Fired up to build my resume, I started working two clinical trial jobs right away.

Surprise, surprise! Three weeks into that, I already knew I didn’t want it.

The trigger for it was reconnecting with my childhood passion for creating stuff. I taught myself to work with precious metals and started making jewelry on the side.

At 26, I was still employed but had recovered from a 2-year battle with allergies and eczema. That healing experience was so profound that I put jewelry-making tools into boxes (that I keep dragging wherever I move until this day) to deep-dive into nutrition therapy and naturopathy.

Fast forward to 36. Still stuck in a job I didn't want, still obsessed with my passion projects, but completely drained from this double life I had created.

2020. If you live on this planet, you know what that year brought us: respirators, home office, a gym-free life… And to me, it also brought Gene Keys and Human Design. WOW. Now I understood why I'd been stuck in this double life.

That experience shook me up so much that I became single after a long time, lost my appetite and dropped 10 kilos in two months, moved in with my parents, took a sabbatical…

This mess turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

Right in the middle of this incredibly destabilizing chaos, I overcame my lifelong camera fear, discovered I’m actually an artist, and started sharing my work online… for the first time ever.

This is where my personal growth began to accelerate.

I started doing what I wanted… but was too scared to do:

• Revealing parts of me I learned to keep hidden

• Sharing my thoughts and insights online

• Writing about my transformation

I was blending my illustrations with writing. I experimented with video animations, Substack, Instagram, e-books, newsletters... And I was growing in ways that weren't previously possible.

Through all this experimenting, I learned that…

• Writing is the best way to organize my chaos (make sense of things)

• Building my work in public cures fear of rejection

• Leaving employee life to do what I want accelerates personal growth

In 2023, I finally did it. I quit my clinical trials career with no plan to go back, betting on myself to build a life of freedom — to work what I want, when I want, with whom I want.

I’ve spent the first 15 years of my career stuck in the exact same pattern I’d fallen into when I was little, experiencing the exact same struggle of forcing myself to do work I ‘have to’ versus doing what I ‘want to’. It was EXHAUSTING and it certainly wasn’t freedom.

Now I'm building around where that energy just wants to go. And whatever holds me back, I see it as just another lesson in my personal growth curriculum.

This is literally what I do 24/7, and everything in my Substack is an extension of this lifestyle. It’s an attitude and a way of being that I want more people to access by reading my EMBODIED LUXURY publication.

My promise to you

In this Substack, I promise to do the following:

• I will tell you stories of how I cracked the previously uncrackable

• I will give you the stripped-down truth

• I will tell you how I screwed up before I learned

• I will never stop nudging you to take action on things you'd hate to never give a shot

• I will respond to every single comment

The Best of EMBODIED LUXURY

Here are my most popular Substack articles:

1. The Rejection-Possibility Experiment

2. Why You Actually Want To Be Triggered

3. The Temptation That Locks You Into The Wrong Life

4. Composting Pain Into Beauty

5. You’re Missing An Opportunity Right Now

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