Living Our Humanity, with Hella Zouiten

In search of relationships that feel more alive, more authentic? Wondering how to truly nurture a relationship over time? What if loving fully were not only a feeling, but an art, an ongoing commitment to oneself and to the other…“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Gustav JungIn this audio article, I explore the nature of relationships as a space of transformation, where our longing for connection meets our need for freedom. Rooted in both personal experience and my work in body-oriented psychotherapy, this episode looks at how our histories, defenses shape the way we love, relate, and position ourselves in the presence of another.This episode offers a journey through the four pillars of love. Through reflections, lived examples, and references to thinkers such as Erich Fromm and Brené Brown, it invites us to reconsider love not as a fixed ideal, but as an art.It opens a space for reflection on what allows a relationship to endure and deepen over time.Written and narrated by Hella Zouiten. Published in ELLE Egypt.The article: https://www.elle.eg/part-5-the-four-pillars-of-love/My website: https://livingourhumanity.com/en/index.html

Longing for harmony and an authentic way to relate with yourself and others? What if reaching for the life that we yearn for goes through looking into the aspects of ourselves that we have been repressing/rejecting... “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - C. G. JungIn this audio article, I explore the masks we develop to protect ourselves and how they impact our behavior, relationships, and sense of self. Drawing from Core Energetics (body-oriented psychotherapy), depth psychology, and real life examples, this episode looks at our shadow, and the defenses that once served survival but now limit our capacity for intimacy, creativity, and inner freedom.This episode invites an honest encounter with what we often reject in ourselves—anger, fear, pride, etc—and with the paradox that transformation does not come from perfection or self-improvement, but from integration. By bringing awareness to these inner movements, we begin to reclaim the energy locked in defense and open the way toward a more grounded, authentic way of living.Written and read by Hella Zouiten.Full article on ELLE Egypt: https://www.elle.eg/the-ever-becoming-self-part-4-our-mask/My website: https://livingourhumanity.com/en/index.html

Feeling tense, overwhelmed or lacking direction? What if the way back to yourself does not start with more planning and thinking, but with your body...In this audio article, I explore the body as an inner compass. It is an invitation to listen to the body, to notice its signals and start a dialogue that supports moving through the challenge of “big emotions”, anxiety, overwhelm and tension. I also look at the inner critic, this deep seated and often outdated protection, and offer ways that could help soften its grip.This episode also honors relational grounding and various other ways to a more can support embodiement in every day life.Written and read by Hella Zouiten.Full article on ELLE Egypt: https://www.elle.eg/the-ever-becoming-self-part-3-reconnecting-with-body/My website: https://livingourhumanity.com/en/index.html

Tired of seeing the same patterns emerging in your life? Feeling like moving but wondering why you can't? The answer might be locked into your nervous system…“Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.” — Rainer Maria RilkeIn this audio article, I explore how love, loss, and trauma shape the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. I look at how the protections that once helped us survive in childhood, imprinted into our nervous system, can later become patterns that hold us back. Drawing from body-oriented psychotherapy and neuroscience, this episode examines how trauma imprints itself on both the body and psyche, distorting our sense of safety, identity, and connection.An invitation to understand what keeps us stuck, to approach our inner world with compassion, and to reconnect with the body as a gateway to transformation, truth, and renewed aliveness.Written and read by Hella Zouiten.Full article on ELLE Egypt: https://www.elle.eg/the-ever-becoming-self-part-2-what-holds-me-back/My website: https://livingourhumanity.com/en/index.html

Do you feel lost or anxious for no particular reason? are you longing for a deeper meaning? What if the answer is within you...“Become the one you are.” — Friedrich NietzscheIn this audio article, I reflect on identity as a living, evolving process. Drawing from personal experience, philosophy, body-oriented psychotherapy, and psychology, this episode explores how we are formed through encounters: with places, cultures, others, and ourselves.Through embodiment, writing, and remembrance, it traces the dialogue between who we have been and who we are becoming. An invitation to ground, to explore and to align with your true self and your deeper longings.Written and read by Hella Zouiten.Full article en ELLE Egypt: https://www.elle.eg/the-ever-becoming-self-part-1-who-am-i/My website: https://livingourhumanity.com/en/index.html