Today marks the 6th year since I started Arawme.
wisdom can exist in the in-between too
This June marks the 6th year since I started Arawme. More specifically, 28th June 2019 was the day I launched Arawme’s website publicly.
Back in 2019, I was still working full time as a diving instructor in Palau, in the Western Pacific Ocean.
I remember sitting in my living room in my apartment in Koror, asking myself,
Sylvia, are you seriously doing this?
What are you actually creating?
Are you really, ready to be seen?
Behind this mental chatter was a phrase an advisor of mine told me at the end of 2018, a year that marked my second awakening, aka the most tumultuous time of my life.
One day, Sylvia, you will use what healed you to heal others.
It did not make sense to me at that time. I held the lowest self-worth consciousness at that time.
But somehow that phrase never left me.
When I moved to Palau, I was finally not in the thick of my grief; I finally found myself again in my self-healing journey. I moved to Palau to work as a dive instructor, but I knew deeply that I wanted to create and, for the first time, showcase and share it with the world.
I had no spiritual friends there. Rather, most of my friends in my life then were not spiritual. I had only one friend who was embracing her life’s work as a healer, all the way in Kenya.
One of the few friends I had in Palau was Tim, a middle-aged American teacher who works at the college in Koror town. Daily, before my trip out to sea, we would meet at the pier, making silly jokes and talking about our day. He would always laugh at what an old soul I was and how I was internally so much older than he was.
I absolutely adore him. He even took me sailing in his little boat.
After work at 5 p.m, I would cook and clean, watch some episodes about ancient civilisations on Gaia, then sit in front of my laptop and start writing and creating.
Some nights, I would work until 2 a.m. before willing myself to wake up at 5:45 a.m. to meditate, as that was how success was supposed to be made. Discipline and consistency. Bless this old Sylvia.
I wanted to create an online space that inspires, empowers, and uplifts others through my writing.
How was I gonna do that?
No idea, but I knew I wasn’t going to let myself get in my way.
In the places I lived before and where I was originally from, I never had a community of like-minded, soul-led business owners who believed in doing good. It almost felt that wherever I lived, I was the odd one out, where starting your own business was always a far-flung dream, while the rigidity of living a life paycheck to paycheck was the only path known.
I was surrounded by much scarcity.
Naysayers called me delusional.
Someone asked me a couple of years ago because she was astonished to learn that I was still working on my business and had not given up.
How can you give something up when it was something your soul deeply knows you are meant to do?
Despite the busyness of life— working a day job, being in a partnership, and having a pet macaw— I never stopped tending to the gardens of my creativity, writing, and soul work.
Along the way, I became a Squarespace website designer. After completing countless hours of self-study and professional training, I also became a certified Human Design reader. It was then that I made a devotion and allegiance to supporting Human Design Projectors in the work I do. Each of my offerings was created because it was led by invitations. I cannot even begin to count the number of times I have revamped and refined my site.
Things began to shift when I decided to take that leap of faith at the end of last year. To finally ditch the familiarity of comfort, of a stable paycheck in one of the best jobs in the world (diving in the Maldives)— a step towards what I know was aligned with my higher self.
I remember in 2019, my first digital product was Bhava, a mindfulness self-love toolkit that I created based on my personal healing journey.
It was priced at 33 USD?
I barely made five sales.
Now, here in 2025,
I have self-published the World’s First Human Design Energy Type Specific Planner (undated version coming soon) and made over 80% sales.
I offer self-paced workshops, courses, and one-on-one sessions on my site, and hundreds of Projectors read my work daily.
A Projector invited me to be her business mentor and have mentored several Projector business clients thus far (all without pushing).
I get paid up to 4 figures.
I healed my money and visibility wounds. My nervous system has expanded far beyond where it used to be with receiving.
I have a business, not a blog. I lived a life the old Sylvia wouldn’t have imagined living a year ago, on the other side of the world.
And this is just the beginning.
For those of you here who are brave enough to start your business, whether digital, physical, or hybrid, regardless of whether product or service-based, I want to say,
I see you.
I know how it feels to work behind the scenes with your dreams, from the beginning to the end, and how it feels to be the person wearing many hats. I also understand the many self-dialogues one may have about being perfect or good enough, showing up, and trusting yourself.
I see you.
To my loved ones, near and far, who have supported me since 2019 as I pursue this delusional absurdity that I call my business today, thank you for rooting for and believing in me and my work. especially when you couldn’t understand, especially when my pace was so slow, especially when things got hard.
Look at how Arawme has evolved to today.
Above all, I hope I inspired, empowered, and uplifted you a little with this piece today.
This was all the old Sylvia had wanted since 2019.
This is Tim (taken in 2019)
He is getting older, and he is back in the States. Maybe I should pay him a visit so he can realize how much older of an old soul I’ve grown to.
All you need is that one person who believes in you.
He was mine.
Wisdom can exist in the in-between.
Wisdom can exist alongside the grey door between the call for change and the courage to bring it about in your life.
Wherever you are in life, if you are in a transformative chapter of your life and desire a Projector mentor to walk alongside you,
I would love to hear from you.
♡♡♡♡♡
Hi! I am so glad to cross paths with you here.
My name is Sylvia.
I am the founder, spiritual writer, certified Human Design reader and Projector guide and business mentor behind Arawme and Your Companion.
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