Life of a DUTCH women 🇳🇱 | Ep.3: My escape to Istanbul 🇹🇷

Описание: 🌿 SIMPLICITY IS STRENGTH
Sometimes God gives you a window of time — not to fill it, but to breathe in it.
My 15-hour layover in Istanbul became a moment of release: walking by the water, shedding emotions, and remembering that healing doesn’t always need consumption.
Often, the simplicity of nature is the way back to peace.
🌍 TWO CONTINENTS COMING TOGETHER
Istanbul is a city where Europe and Asia meet, where ancient Christianity shaped the foundations of faith, and where the river once carried the rise of empires.
In this episode I walk through history: the Hagia Sophia, the old Roman walls, the fishermen on Galata Bridge, and the morning light that made everything feel timeless.
🕌 ISTANBUL
The people were incredibly friendly, the city clean and modern, and the airport shuttle of Havaist brought me back smoothly in 45 minutes. I arrived early for my flight to Dallas, grateful and energized.
💛 HEALING & SELF-EMPATHY
This layover gave me a moment away from my mother’s challenges and my own grief.
Walking by the water helped me breathe, let go, and practice self-empathy — soothing my nerves while traveling alone and trusting God to order my steps.
🤸 ENCOURAGEMENT
On my healing journey I discovered that healing comes in movement, by taking action.
God reveals His comfort in the spaces between — between continents, between emotions, between seasons of life. I recently lost my brother. Losing him sparked me to take the gift of life seriously — to seize my life and mission, to live on purpose, to choose joy on purpose.
Because when you live in joy and simplicity, the enemy cannot get a hold on you.
Joy is not only a feeling — it’s a choice, a medicine for the soul.
May you go after your own moments of joy today and find them.
Even in the middle of struggle.
And if it’s a tough day — keep breathing. One breath at a time!
It’s okay not to be okay. Joy is still around the corner, and you deserve to have it. 🤸
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📖 SCRIPTURE — Galatians 5:13–14
"For you were called to be free... serve one another humbly in love.
For the entire law is fulfilled in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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🌸 ABOUT ANNA
Anna Hofstra is a content creator, nutritionist and follower of Jesus. ✨
Through fasting she found physical healing, emotional resilience, and spiritual joy. Today she shares her journey and nutrition teachings to help 2 Million women around the planet find faith in Jesus, joy in their daily lives and experience freedom in their bodies and minds.💜
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