1. My Acupuncture Practice Karine Kayitesi Coaching
Karine-Kayitesi Ponting (Mundere)
Half French, Half Congolese, lived in several European and African countries
Married to British/Irish husband, mother of a 6 months old baby

2. What do I do?
I help Expats live a healthier happier Modern life with the help of Ancient Wisdom

3. How do I do it? 1 - With Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Acupuncture, Herbal therapy, Nutrition advice, Therapeutic Massage
Holistic - Mind and Body interconnected - Customised (W:One disease treated same way/TCM: One disease several causes, different treatment/person, plus identify the cause) ex: paracetamol

4. How do I do it? 2 - With Yijing life coaching sessions
The Book of Change (handle life and change)

5. For Who? Expat patients/clients
They deal with Change, like everyone else in a fast paced modern world
but confronted to even more change, more often, at a higher intensity

6. For Who? You : Expat plus Entrepreneur - congratulations !
You can feel lonely, isolated when no family or good friends or connections around you
Lost or like you have lost your identity, who you were before coming to this new country
Overwhelmed by the reality of living a life where you have to face ‘change’ as an ongoing pattern rather than an exceptional one

7. Obstacles (cultural differences, language barriers) are part of your daily life
Can be Exhausting, create anxiety, even depression
You are trying to set up your business, you have an idea, a vision but you are struggling to implement it, it is too difficult to materialise your plan
Feel like you’ve sacrificed your career (a part of yourself)
Even when you have finally started your own business, obstacles keep coming and you feel less able to face them in such a context

8. Why?
Asking yourself WHY you want to do what you want to do as a business owner
You? What do you do when you are stuck with a project? or confused about the next step in your business?
Going back to why? Why am doing this? Does it make sense to me? Shall I do it differently so it makes sense?
If you don’t already do, you can start now for each project, each decision, each new step, to go back to your Why.
Once you do this, you find that things just flow, with so much ease, you feel aligned with yourself, your purpose, and events and opportunities just keep happening without you doing much!

9. My Why?
To help alleviate Suffering (body or/and mind)

10. My Why? Happy helping people in my practice BUT :
Would now like to help THEM be in charge of their own health (body and mind)
Want them to have the power

11. next step: The Expat Rescue Remedy
Currently working on an online step by step programme which will give Expats insights (from an ancient wisdom perspective, applied to modern life) into their life situations, their health, and hands on tools to use whenever needed- Will share now JUST one tip :

12. Stop Trying to be Positive
As an Entrepreneur (even more as an Expat Entrepreneur) you might feel you need to:
Be Strong
Be Positive
Be Brave
Be thankful for what you have
Be determined to face change in a positive way

13. Stop Trying to Be Positive
Conventional ‘modern’ wisdom would have you believe it will help
Huge mistake which can actually have the opposite effect on you and your life, leaving you feeling even more empty and bad about yourself if you don’t succeed to change your mindset
making you feel like a failure

14. Stop Trying to be Positive
Ancient Wisdom (Chinese) can SHIFT your understanding of this:

15. Stop Trying to be Positive
Yin/yang (black/white, moon/sun, day/night, etc)
No good no bad
Opposites but complementary
One transforms into another
Being in the Dark is good and allows you to access the Light in a genuine and stable way
Only by going through the negative can you find the Real positive