The Story Behind the House
Honestly — how are you doing?
Not the version you give when someone asks in passing.
The real answer. The one you only admit to yourself at 2am, when the house is quiet and the ache comes back.
You're not crazy for feeling it.
Most women do. They just don't say so out loud.
This is a place where we say it out loud.
Lily House Studio is a women's media and storytelling company founded in January 2026 in Los Angeles, California.
We create cinematic digital series, documentaries, essays, audio, and storytelling experiences for women navigating healing, identity, and the ongoing process of becoming.
Our flagship series, In Search Of… Healing, began production in April 2026. Filmmaker and creator Jhaynane Bastien travels across California to explore what it truly takes to heal, rebuild, and begin again. Currently in production. Premiering Spring 2027.
Jhaynane Bastien is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer, and creative director. She left a tech startup in early 2026, returned her equity, and founded Lily House Studio to return to the work she was always meant to do.
The accident that set everything in motion happened on February 28, 2026, at Western Avenue and Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
The BEliving framework — the philosophy beneath everything we make — grew out of Jhaynane's practice of nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and learning to live intentionally before the evidence showed up.
Jhaynane Bastien · Founder PortraitWelcome home.
I’m Jhaynane — filmmaker, writer, creative director, and founder of Lily House Studio.
I built this because I needed it and it didn't exist.
By thirty-six, I had everything I was supposed to want: the baby, the family, the house, the degrees. I had hit every benchmark. Checked every box. And underneath all of it, I was exhausted, unfulfilled, and struggling to name what was wrong.
So I blew it up.
I got a divorce. Became a single mom. Left the company I'd built, returned my equity, and decided to stop living someone else's version of my life.
What I found on the other side wasn’t a new self — it was the original one. The seven-year-old hosting her own cooking show from the kitchen. The twelve-year-old writing poetry and dreaming about a life with her name in the Hollywood Hills.
Turns out I was a storyteller all along. I had just forgotten.
So I built Lily House Studio — because it had been my dream since I was a kid, long before I knew what to call it.
Why Stories
The greatest women we know are the ones who broke the rules. But we only ever see them at the peak.
There is so much to learn from the journey that got them there: the messy middle, the unglamorous parts, the small wins that quietly compounded into transformation.
I wish someone had told me their story when I was younger. My mother. My sister. Any woman who had walked this road before me.
They didn’t. So I’m here to share mine — and to make space for yours.
Lily House Studio exists to show women that they don’t need permission to live the life they actually want. That fulfillment and success are not the same thing. That becoming is not a destination — it’s a practice.
You are not too much. You are not too late. You are not alone.
On This Journey
On this journey of learning to author my own story, here's what I keep coming back to:
It's never too late to live as your authentic self.
You can't always choose what happens to you. But you can always choose what happens next.
Journey Image · On This JourneyI built this thinking only about myself at first.
But looking at the women in my life, I realized my story wasn't unique.
I am every woman.
So it's for you too.
This is a place to tell our stories. To say out loud what most of us only say to ourselves at 2am. To show the unglamorous middle and make it holy.
And find our way back to who we've always been.
Come. Enter the rest of our world.