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Vita Janas, Vilnius (2025)

31/08/2025

Bye bye summer of 2025 ❤️✨ like always, it was too short, but this year especially due to cold weather 🥲

The beginning of summer was incredibly windy and rainy here in Lithuania, mirroring the state of our political and social climate. Even though it was annoying, it felt right and seemed as if nature was trying to get our attention.

Did you feel that too?💨

My summer was super simple, but those ordinary days were rich and full of joy. I wanted to be in my homeland, create memories and give Balys a chance to experience Lithuanian summer.
Being lazy, eating cucumbers, berries straight from the bushes, swimming in rivers and sea, being in nature and doing things for no reason - that’s what it was all about.

We spent lots of time in my hometown and most of it was centered around kids.
The best part was seeing my best friends with their families back from different countries and seeing how our kids are growing 🥹

What once was a small circle of girlfriends now expanded into small crowds.

I focused a lot on my physical fitness and moved quite a bit. I’m tryin to gain muscle and become stronger 💪 Age is no longer “just a number” when with age I’m feeling my body change and become less resilient 😮‍💨 Last week I turned 36 and I’m feeling it… 😬

Ironically, I got sick on my birthday and wasn’t able to fully enjoy the last weekend of summer 🫠

I’m feeling better today, just before the new season and new chapter. Balys is starting daycare soon (wish us luck!) and I’m stepping into fall, winter with mixed feelings.

Personally, I’m really excited about new changes!

Collectively… I’m less optimistic. I hope for the best and wish for peace 🇱🇹❤️🫶

How was your summer?

08/08/2025

The hardest thing to do is to learn to sit with discomfort. This skill is the key to authenticity, success, good health, calm mind and inner peace. ✨
Have you started practicing it yet?

29/07/2025

Our short summer break-4 days, 10 adults, 5 kids, 3 celebrations (2 birthdays, 1 major life event) lots of food, sugar, a little bit of swimming, 3 main excursions, many conversations, countless deep breaths and attempts to co-regulate the kids… 🤪

This reunion with my childhood friends was as lovely and as chaotic as you’d expect it to be. You can kiss goodbye rest or uninterrupted conversations when you have kids, but you get many other things that makes it easier to let it all go.

I’m so lucky to have my people! It all began with my mom and her best friend. They moved next door and their 4 decades long friendship began. They had us - all daughters, 5 girls in total. Then we all started to get married and have kids. Now our husbands and kids get to have each other in their lives! All because 2 women kept their friendship, all because of girlhood✨🌸

A little bit about the trip:
We planned the trip last minute so we booked anything that had availability for such a large group. Karkles Vila was a great, budget friendly place with a large outdoor space, playground, rooms with AC(!) and shared common spaces. I loved how quiet it was and overall give it a solid 8/10.
Btw, if you’re in Karkle, there’s a pizza place at Camp Klevas that was amazing!!! They also had cools swings, friendly staff and good vibes. Highly recommend!

We also went to - park with mini replicas of famous world monuments, buildings and statues. It was definitely pricey (17eu pp, kids too…), but we spent there ~2-3hours and had fun. I think I would go back next year.

We went to . Took the ferry from Klaipeda which was half the fun 😅 we watched dolphin and sea lion show and it was entertaining, educational, well organized. If you want to talk about animal abuse, I feel the inner conflict too, but I have some thoughts so maybe I’ll make a separate post about it. All in all, we all enjoyed it!

Last palace - Kretingos ziemos sodas. I wish we stayed there longer, but Balys was ready for his afternoon nap, but the garden was absolutely stunning!

I feel rested and tired at the same time. But more than anything, I feel GRATEFUL. Life is good ❤️

24/07/2025

New photographer in town alert!

His strengths:

Innovative framing choices
Passionate about natural lighting
Candid moments
Shoots with feeling - literally, greasy fingers on the lens for ambience

His weakness:

Believes “focus” is a suggestion, not a requirement
Frequently forgets subjects mid-shot
Strong commitment to blur as a visual motif
Runs off yelling mid-session leaving clients feeling “emotionally unresolved”

🧸 Bookings currently closed - he accepts payment in juice boxes and

22/07/2025

Make take on this CEO and his head of HR cheating scandal… no more hiding for all of us! 🫣 are you ready to be seen?

20/07/2025

Nature is supporting you in every step of the way.
Can you feel how nurtured you are?
Can you see how everything perfectly works together to give you what you need?
Can sense that it’s always present - in and around you?
Can you embrace this love and rest in it, knowing it’ll never leave you?
💚🍃☘️🌿🌱

09/07/2025

No AI, no promt, no cleverness can replace humans.
If you for a moment forgot the magic you carry inside of you, and didn’t notice all that’s outside of you, here’s a reminder of just how unique humans are 💕

06/07/2025

This weekend, my husband and I celebrated 10 year wedding anniversary! 👰🤵‍♂️ I see this number and I feel so old🫣😅 also extremely grateful.

Marriage is a man-made concept. I don’t believe we are meant to live life with one person or worse - stay attached to someone out of fear. If I’d have to choose today, I doubt that I would get married again. This whole concept seems so outdated and inauthentic. But I do know that after all these years, I still want to be with Justas, walk side by side and support each other through this journey. We co-create our lives and we created life - our son Balys 🥹 this whole miracle still takes my breath away ❤️

A few moments from this weekend! We went away to the seaside and chose romantic, but active time.

🐎 Horse riding in the nature was something we wanted to do for the longest time and finally we did! We rode through the woods all the way to dunes and sea… it was amazing! Lithuanian nature is a true treasure 🇱🇹🌿

2. Dinner at was also 10/10 experience! It was a perfect intimate, quiet spot right in the middle of Palanga with exceptional food 🤤

3. Desert though had to be from street vendors 😍

4. We stayed at and overall I’d give it a solid 8/10 👌 location was ideal, staff also wonderful and friendly. We’ll be back with Balys next time and hope to enjoy their spa facilities 😍

5. We explored old town of Klaipėda, visited some touristy places, enjoyed some shopping and did it all SLOWLY 🤤

The best part though was to come back home to our little bug and hug as a family 🥰

The more attention we give to something/someone, the more we appreciate it/him,her,they,them.
Love is something we connect to and then take gentle care of.
It’s a choice you make again and again, despite an impulse to isolate or shut down.
It’s an opening that attracts all that’s beautiful, vulnerable, raw, real, human… it’s an expansion of one’s heart and life itself! ❤️
Happy anniversary, my love ❤️

26/06/2025

If you need a different kind of energy in your life, use movement to support the change.

Back in 2013, when I started attending Al-Anon meetings, I realized for the first time how stuck I was in my thinking and how limited my responses were.

At the same time, I started yoga with Neomi - teacher who spoke little, but smiled a lot. Her classes were in my beloved Harringay neighborhood in London, creating a sense of comfort and home. As I learned to breathe, bend, reach, and ground, I noticed that same flexibility showing up in my thoughts. Suddenly, I had more choices and saw possibilities everywhere!

In 2015, before my wedding, overwhelmed by planning and endless to-dos, I began working out at home and walking all over London to soothe my anxiety. Movement calmed my mind and got me in better shape for the big day!

Later, I just wanted to play, have fun, explore, so I danced. Alone, at home, laughing at my own moves. It was a good time and a comedy show for one.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit I learned TikTok dances during Covid, but looking back, they helped me survive those scary days. Focusing on steps and nothing else gave me mental space and made me feel connected to strangers online.

Many other phases later, now, I’m moving into strength training. Mainly, it's about health, wanting to be strong and active for as long as possible, but mostly, it’s about remembering I have power in my hands. That I can go beast mode, be laud and overcome tough things, starting with 3 reps of 16kg kettlebell swings.

Our bodies, these beautiful, magical machines, can teach us all the wisdom, support and embrace, if we cultivate a loving relationship with them.

Clarify the energy you want in your life and let your body help you get there. What movement will you choose? 🤸‍♀️

04/05/2025

This is what my life looks like now - I try to bring order, make sense, plan and organize and then a tiny human being comes along and colors everything in his own way 🎨

Experiencing motherhood means experiencing extremes every day - from sanity to madness, from exhaustion to relief, from anger to love and so on… 🤪

My husband has a nickname for me and calls me sun. And really, he manifested it - after I became a mom, I do feel like a sun with my son never leaving my orbit 🌍☀️ where I go - he follows. If I turn around - he’s right behind me. If I lay down - he lays on me 😅

Today we’re celebrating Mother’s Day in Lithuania and this weekend was exactly the way my motherhood journey has been in the last 2 1/2 years.

Yesterday we had the whole day planned and visited another city to “have some fun”. Did we? 🙃 Balys wasn’t in a mood, so no fancy restaurant nor activities in the nature saved the day.
Today though we planned to just chill and the day turned into the most beautiful Mother’s Day celebration I could have asked for!

We all slept in and went to the store to get plants for the balcony. I always love going the garden section with Balys and today was so fun too! 🌺🌻🪻

We ran some errands and went to have spontaneous brunch at 🥖 They were packed with families, but someone left emptying the table for us right as we walked in! ✨

When we came back home, we got super cozy and Balys fell asleep in my arms. That feeling is unmatched🥹

After he woke up, all warm and sleepy, he brought me flowers - the most beautiful yellow tulips 🥹

My husband and Balys stayed home and cleaned the flat while I went to do some shopping at the vintage store. I was lucky and found a lovely blouse, perfect for spring!

I got back and while my husband took a bath 🛁 I made my famous tomato soup with fresh bread 🍅🥖

Nothing was unique, but everything felt special.

Nothing in motherhood is unique, but everything feels special most of the time. There’s always a “first of something”, always something new and unexpected. There’s always something to learn and SO MUCH to feel. It’s a wild journey and I’m glad I took this ride🎢

Happy Mother’s Day 🤍

17/04/2025

Now is all there is 🫶✨

14/04/2025

For the last few weeks I’ve been slowly defrosting after a long and challenging winter. There’s been stress and worry, fear and doubt.

But the truth remains:
We cannot stress our way into change.
We cannot worry out way into creativity.
And we certainly cannot doom-scroll our way into nourishment.

I’m seeking comfort and support in big and small ways - spending more time in nature 🌿, moving my body 🏃‍♀️, doing something good for others like donating blood 🩸 , reading📖, cutting my hair✂️, creating consistently episodes🎥, playing with Balys👶, indulging in fresh foods🥬.

All is so simple and all so difficult in this noisy, scary world.

I’m choosing not to ignore what’s wrong.
I’m intentionally seeking what’s right.

How are you spending your spring? What’s making your days lately? What practices are you enjoying?
✨💕

Vita Janas