What we believe, and why it shapes everything we make.
Lily House Studio exists for women learning to trust themselves again — women questioning inherited expectations, reclaiming authorship over their own lives, and building lives that feel true.
The lily was always a lily — even as a seed, even in the mud, even before anyone could see it.
The journey through the muck was not proof that it was lost.
It was the becoming.
That is why Lily House Studio exists: to honor the bloom, but celebrate the journey.
Not the highlight reel. Not the arrival. The part in the middle — when you can't see the surface yet and you're not sure you're growing — that part. The unglamorous, necessary, quietly sacred part that nobody talks about.
That's what we make stories about.
That's what the house is for.
"The lily was always a lily — even as a seed, even in the mud, even before anyone could see it."
The goal is not to become someone new.
The goal is to remember who you were before the world told you who you had to be.
You are allowed to want more.
You are allowed to choose differently.
You are allowed to trust yourself.
You are allowed to build a life that feels true.
"The goal is not to become someone new. The goal is to remember who you were before the world told you who you had to be."
Every story Lily House Studio tells is built on one framework: BEliving.
BEliving is the practice of living intentionally — learning how to be, live, and believe, all at once. It is the shift from a life of struggle and control to a life of surrender, freedom, and trust.
It is not a self-help program.
It is the lens we bring to every story — the thread running through every series, essay, and production we create. And it begins with a single question: what does it actually look like when a woman chooses to live differently?
BEliving is how we find the answer.
Be still enough to hear yourself.
When life gets chaotic, the instinct is to look outward — to fix, manage, control. BE is the opposite move.
The pause before the reaction. The stillness before the response. The turn inward before anything else.
This is where everything begins. Decisions made from chaos are rarely true ones.
Being is not doing nothing. It is choosing not to act from fear.
Live in alignment with what you know.
Living is how you move through the world once you have come back to yourself.
It is the return: back into your relationships, your decisions, your day. Not from urgency or control, but from presence. You are no longer reacting to life. You are participating in it.
You take the next aligned step without needing to see the whole staircase.
Believe before the evidence shows up.
Believing is what connects the inward and the outward.
It is the quiet conviction that you are capable of handling what comes — and that things are working out even when you cannot see how.
And when trust breaks down — that is not failure. That is where the muscle grows. You return. Again. That returning is the practice.
Believing is not blind faith. It is what you build every time you choose to come back.
"Believing is not blind faith. It is what you build every time you choose to come back."
It is not about giving up.
It is about releasing what you cannot control, staying present in your life, and trusting yourself through the unknown.
BEliving is not something you master once. It is something you return to — daily, moment by moment.
When faced with uncertainty, ask:
Can I pause and come back to myself?
BE · The Inward Turn
What does this moment need from me?
LIVE · The Outward Turn
Can I trust that this is working out?
BELIEVE · The Thread That Holds
And then choose.
To be. To live. To believe.
But before the framework, there was just a woman on a couch, trying to figure out why nothing was working.
I built BEliving on my couch.
In the middle of years of trying to figure out why I kept ending up in the same place — no matter how much I thought I’d changed.
I believed there was more for me. I could see it in the women I was reading about — women who had looked at the script they'd been handed and quietly, decisively, chosen a different one. Extraordinary women doing ordinary things. They hadn't found a secret. They had simply decided.
I believed that too. But I kept making decisions from the same place I always had.
Fear. FOMO. The need to fix things, control things, manage outcomes before they could surprise me. I thought I was being proactive. What I was actually doing was reacting — to old patterns, old stories, old versions of a life I thought I'd already left behind.
So I made myself a promise: feel everything. But never make a decision from that state. Wait. Get still. Let the noise settle. Then move.
Once I learned to stand still, I could actually choose. Not from my history. Not from fear. From the present moment — with whatever information I actually had, and without needing to control what came next.
Glennon Doyle's Untamed was the first crack in the wall — the book that made me realize I wasn't alone in wanting to blow up a life that looked fine from the outside. Daria Burke's Of My Own Making showed me how many women are living this same quiet reckoning, and sent me back to Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, which gave me the language for what my body already knew.
And Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now taught me what presence actually meant — that stillness was the most deliberate thing I could do.
But the framework didn't come from books alone. It came from years of therapy, from studying mindfulness practice, and from what neuroscience continues to show us about how the body holds stress, how the nervous system regulates, and how humans actually change — not through insight alone, but through practice, repetition, and return.
These are the foundations that the most credible voices in psychology, somatic healing, and contemplative practice keep arriving at independently: presence is the precondition for everything. The body leads. Belief is practiced.
These books changed what I believed stories could do. That's why we started Lily House Studio. Because a woman picked up a book and her whole life shifted. We make the kind of stories that do that.
BEliving is what I named it when I finally understood what I'd been living.
"These books changed what I believed stories could do."
BEliving is a framework for intentional living developed by Jhaynane Bastien, founder and creative director of Lily House Studio — a women's media and storytelling company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in January 2026.
The framework is built on three pillars: BE (the inward turn — presence and self-regulation before action), LIVE (the outward turn — aligned decision-making and conscious participation in life as it unfolds), and BELIEVE (the thread that holds — trust in oneself, returned to repeatedly, before the evidence arrives).
BEliving was developed through Jhaynane's personal experience of rebuilding her life after divorce, career transition, and a car accident on February 28, 2026, that became the catalyst for In Search Of… Healing — a cinematic documentary series currently filming across California, set to premiere Spring 2027.
The framework is informed by mindfulness practice, neuroscience, somatic healing, and the fields of psychology and contemplative studies — as well as the personal and literary work of Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now), Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Glennon Doyle (Untamed), and Daria Burke (Of My Own Making).
BEliving shapes the editorial voice, thematic choices, and storytelling philosophy of every Lily House Studio production — including In Search Of… Healing, From Scratch, and The Power of BEliving Substack publication.
Lily House Studio takes its name from the lily — a flower that grows through mud and becomes exactly what it always was. The studio exists to honor the bloom, but celebrate the journey.
If you have been waiting for permission to be your most authentic self — welcome home.
Lily House Studio exists to help you remember: the keys were always yours.