Yulia Sashyna

Yulia Sashyna

I am fascinated by the human being — their inner world, choices, dreams, fears, changes, and that moment when everything suddenly becomes clear and easy.

That is why I create products that help you think and feel through images, find your own meanings and look at the familiar from a different angle.

Metaphor is close to my heart, because sometimes one flower can say more than a page of text. And one game can lead you to a thought you would never have reached on your own.

Me · Kvitny · Kvitkarnia · Games

My world

  • “Kvitny”

    A metaphorical, aesthetic deck with flower meanings and special flower imagery on the cards. Already in its second print run.

  • The book “Kvitkarnia”

    A book where flowers become a language for talking about life, people and ourselves.

  • Metaphorical thinking games

    Games that help you see connections, find unexpected solutions and look at situations more broadly. To see yourself from a different angle — and to use the people around you as mirrors.

  • My blog

    A place where I share thoughts, observations and my own view of life. People say it inspires and creates a feeling of lightness.

My philosophy

I believe the right answer does not always come right away. Everything has its rhythm and its best time to bloom.

  • Sometimes — you need to give it time.
  • Sometimes — ask the right question.
  • Sometimes — look at yourself through another person's eyes.
  • And sometimes — simply draw a card with a flower.

I create my products so that a person has more love, more lightness and more contact with themselves and with the world.

We all need more space for our own answers.

Not ready-made.Not “right”.Our own.

My story

«I was not always an author of metaphorical cards, books and games… And I don't know where to begin… At 7 I dreamed of becoming an outstanding person, dressed up in my mother's clothes and invented creative performances; at 15 I finished school, wrote a poetry collection called “The Heart Doesn't Sleep” and became a driver. At 18 I became an accountant, a volleyball player and an event host. At 22 — a junior research fellow in taxation, at 23 — a lawyer, at 25 — a mother for the first time, at 30 — for the second. For 9 years I built customer experience and worked in marketing, created brands and studied Jung's archetypes, and at 36 I got to know myself anew — honestly — and I keep doing that, having gathered all my experience into the scale of one personality.»

How I work with metaphor

My approach

I don't give ready-made answers. I create tools that help a person find their own.

Metaphorical thinking opens access to what is stored in the subconscious. That makes it easier to bring it into awareness — into something that serves you right here and right now.

I don't like digging for causes. I love accepting myself and you totally, forgiving myself and you totally for everything, discovering love in myself and in you — and moving forward, living life.

10 things you might not know about me

  • I drive a convertible — it makes it easier to be inspired by life and to feel myself
  • I never cook breakfasts — dinners are my thing
  • I collect vases and love bringing vintage ones from different corners of the world
  • every year I fly to Iceland to recharge my inner batteries
  • I shoot with a Fuji and adore posing for the camera
  • every year I join an amateur theatre to explore a different me
  • at school I always said I was not a reader but an author — so I never read the book
  • I change outfits several times a day, each time building a look to match my inner state
  • I love bread — if there is bread and butter, I need nothing else
  • I feel stones, and I choose them for people with surprising accuracy

Where to find me

Your social media, blog, maybe YouTube, podcasts or interviews.