Clirium’s Magazine · Issue 01 · 01.2026 · Editor's Letter
Victory Naydenova: More Than the Sum of Our Roles
I am building a magazine with room for a woman’s whole life. A letter from the founder of Clirium’s Magazine.
Featured: Victory Naydenova — Founder of CLIRIUM® ME. Published: . Reading time: 7 min. Story and interview by Victory Naydenova.
Topics: Editor's Letter, Female Identity, CLIRIUM® ME
The Story
I am building a magazine with room for a woman’s whole life. A letter from the founder of Clirium’s Magazine.
I’m creating Clirium’s Magazine for women. For the woman confidently building her own business, and for the woman who is only now working up the nerve to say what she wants out loud. For the woman who has accomplished a great deal but still has questions about her own life. For the woman starting over who wants to do it at her own pace.
When you open this magazine, I want you to meet real, living people. Here we can talk about work and money, beauty and age, love and loneliness, family and our own plans. All of it exists inside one life. And I’m interested in a woman in all her fullness — what she has built, what she’s going through right now, and what she has yet to choose.
Behind a Name, a Whole Life
My name is on the cover of this issue: Victory Naydenova. Next to it you could write author, psychologist, founder of CLIRIUM® ME. Each label describes part of my work. But even all together, they can’t hold a whole person.
I believe a woman is always more than the list of her roles. I can love my work and still need rest. I can be sure of one decision and doubt another. I can care for the people I love and still keep room for my own interests. I don’t see a contradiction in any of that. That’s simply what a life looks like when there’s still room in it for me.
I want each of us to have the right to that complexity. To not have to prove our strength by being constantly busy, our femininity by matching someone else’s taste, or our worth by how much we’ve managed to do for other people.
The Beauty of Choosing Yourself
“I love beauty: a striking photograph, a precise sentence, a piece of clothing you feel like yourself in. So I wanted to give this magazine a beautiful form. But behind every cover, I want to leave enough room for a conversation that lasts longer than a first impression.”
For me, choosing yourself shows up in everyday decisions. Admitting that your usual rhythm no longer fits. Naming a price for your work. Asking for help. Keeping an evening free. Going back to something that has interested you for a long time, even if no one promised it would turn into anything significant.
I don’t believe a woman has to want more of everything, all at once. Sometimes her own version of “more” is more quiet, more closeness, more time to sleep, or the freedom not to rush anywhere. What matters to me is that a woman sets the scale of her life herself, based on her own circumstances and desires.
At the same time, I don’t separate freedom from responsibility. Every choice comes with conditions, consequences, and sometimes a cost. I’m for seeing them clearly and looking for a step you can actually take — not demanding that you change, in a single day, everything that took years to form.
From Insight to a Decision of Your Own
In my own work, I’m especially drawn to the move from awareness to action. What happens after I’ve understood what I want? How does that understanding show up in my calendar, my conversations, my boundaries, my habits?
I like concrete questions. What can I do today? What support do I need? How will I know the decision I’ve made is right for me? Questions like these bring me back to real life, where there are obligations, fatigue, limited time, and other people with wants of their own.
I leave room to reconsider. If a decision turns out to be a poor one, I can refine it, ask for advice, choose another path. I don’t want to turn personal growth into one more exam a woman has to pass without a single mistake.
It’s with this attention to everyday life that I’m growing CLIRIUM® ME. And in the magazine, I want to hear how women themselves describe their experience: what turned out to matter, what helped, what they haven’t figured out yet. A personal story is valuable for its honesty, even when it doesn’t end with a final answer.
The Women I Want to Hand the Microphone To
In these issues, very different subjects sit side by side: art, work, relationships, self-care, inner change. Varvara Shevchenko, Nadezhda Gavrilina, Natali Kruk, Inna Shikolay, Raisat Ramazanova, and Galina Kozhevnikova share their experiences. Each has her own voice and her own point of view.
I want you to read these stories freely. Some things will resonate, some you’ll disagree with, and some will leave you with a question you want to ask yourself. To me, that kind of conversation matters more than trying to offer everyone a single way to live.
I don’t expect our women to have flawless biographies, and I don’t want to turn their stories into instructions for everyone else. I’m interested in how she thinks, what she notices, what she leans on. Behind the words “I decided” there is often a whole journey — and I want to give it room on these pages.
In Clirium’s Magazine, I bring together the beauty of the visual with real attention to substance. The cover invites you in. The story lets you hear the woman. I want you to come away remembering both her face and the thought she finally found the courage to say.
My Luxury Is Being Myself
My definition of luxury is very personal. For me, it’s the ability to direct my own attention, to choose a rhythm that feels right, to be in relationships where I can speak honestly, and to create what I believe in. To notice beauty without losing touch with my own feelings.
I don’t see this as a state you reach once and keep forever. Being myself means coming back to myself in new circumstances. Asking again: Does this fit me? Do I want this? Am I ready to accept the consequences of my choice?
With this magazine, I’m opening a space for that kind of conversation. You can come here for inspiration, a beautiful story, a new idea, or a few quiet minutes to yourself. I want you to find it interesting here — and I never want you to have to shrink yourself down to a single role.
Welcome to Clirium’s Magazine. I’m so glad you’re here.
Victory Naydenova · Founder of CLIRIUM® ME
From Their Stories to Your Own Life
Clirium’s Magazine was created by Victory Naydenova, author and founder of CLIRIUM® ME. Here you’ll find women’s stories alongside her perspective on psychology, choice, and quality of life.
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