Welcome to my universe!
I hope you’ll find something here that willl bring you joy.
I’m Evangelia,
a Greek-born engineer, poet, mother of two grown sons, and a woman who tried to live by everyone else’s rules until my heart refused to stay silent.
For 30 years I lived in Sweden, chasing the kind of sucess the world applauds. Inside, I felt tired, misaligned, like I was trading my life away.
Shine Together was born when I finally chose my own definition of success. Today I balance all my interests and passions in a life that is fully creative.
This is my invitation to a loving community.
Welcome with all your shine.
How all this started?
The Story
Finding myself unfulfilled in living up to other’s expectations and ideas of a good life, by the age of 44, I realized that all my adult life I was striving for the kind of success that society values most, high education and career, which I achieved very easy gaining all the positive things coming from that but at the same time suffering for living a life that was not aligned with whom I am inside.
My professional life up to then was about me trading my time and life away for a career path that wasn’t fulfilling. I felt that there's more to life than ticking boxes, attend meetings, read protocols and feeling exhausted about everything. I was resisted my work, I wasn’t inspired. So I went in search of a path that was aligned with my personal values and my deepest desires.
The desires I held in my heart were there for a reason. My heart had always desired freedom, beauty, connection and play but I never could allow myself to fully be guided by them.
January 2020, I decided that it was about time to search of more and find my own definition of success through stepping out of my head into my heart and start looking to those desires and try to understand them in depth.
The Change
I realized then that
Geographical, financial, and time freedom is very important to me. To be able to choose where to live my life and how to spend my days.
Integrate beauty in my everyday experience from the simple things like the beauty of nature, of art, of being creative, of peoples smiles to loving others. All this beauty brings out my own beauty as well and this serves not only me but all people around me
Connect in an authentic way with myself and others is crucial for my health and happiness and
Living like a little child again full of playfulness and curiosity, experiencing the world as if it was for the first time is FUN
So, through my search I came to a point where change was necessary. Having trust in me, right there, right then…
...I surrendered and this project was a fact!
What Is Shine Together?
Shine Together is a living universe of experiences, words and spaces for people who feel there must be more to life than ticking boxes.
It is:
a home for poetry and honest storytelling
a place for retreats and co-working trips on the island of Thassos
curated giftboxes for meaningful moments
a quiet, intentional community for those who want
depth and softness in their everyday life
At its heart, Shine Together is about sharing our light, our talents and our full glory and remembering that together, we are stronger and have so much more fun.
Four Pillars of Shine Together
Freedom
If geographical, financial and time freedom matters to you, if you want to choose where you live and how you spend your days, Shine Together is an invitation to explore your own definition of success.
Beauty
If you appreciate beauty in all its forms, nature, art, design, words, human warmth, then let’s create it together. Let us all be beauty.
Connection
If you long for deeper connections, beyond small talk and surface, Shine Together offers spaces to truly meet, through gatherings, collaborations and shared experiences.
Fun
If having fun makes you a better person, you are in the right place. Events, travel, yoga, sailing, retreats, co-working and more, with room for joy, playfulness and adventure.
Explore the Shine Together Universe
Retreats & Co-working Trips
Slow, intentional time on Thassos, a 4-day retreat and a 2-week co-working trip.
Giftboxes
Curated giftboxes for life’s tender moments, always with meaning and aesthetics at the core.
Poetry & Book
My poetry and book for those who live in many worlds at once.
Community
A closed, subscription-based space for rituals, poetry and connection.
Stay in the Shine Together Universe
If you feel a quiet “yes” when you read these words, you are welcome to stay close.
You can:
join the mailing list for updates on retreats, co-working, giftboxes and poetry
follow on Instagram for everyday glimpses and reflections