ABOUT US
ARISTOS is a platform for researching and discovering the best tools and ways to attain a lifestyle full of health, + happiness. To get you to live your best life, we help by updating and elevating your everyday!
Your online resource, community, for thorough - yet easy to digest - information on all things lifestyle. A friendly and real resource that still appreciates aesthetics, style, and the finer things. You’ll always find an underlying thread of mental and spiritual health in all that we do.
The journey and idea to build and have a platform like Aristos, and what it hopes to become, started when our founder, Ferwa, grew up reading and hearing all sorts of advice from various sources on wellness health, and lifestyle in general. One day, something was useful for you; the next, it was not.
Ferwa always believed that the way to life was striking a balance, your version of balance. She still does.
While some things are better than others for you, she always believes that extremes are never a solution. Making decisions with an informed mind helps achieve a calmer approach to all rounded wellness in life.
The name
Here at Aristos, we want to help everyone reach their best potential. Our name is the root word of the Greek term ‘areté’, which completely describes what Aristos is all about. This philosophical term translates to ‘reaching your highest potential and your best moral virtue’ with the belief that everyone’s potential is different, as long as you are doing the best you can.
Think of pouring the same amount of water into three different shaped vessels, they all contain the same contents, the same amount, but the contents take on a different shape according to the vessel that holds it.
Different simply means different, not more, not less than - just different.
We celebrate differences and recognize and place a lot of importance on mental health, and the spiritual side. We believe that the mind and soul needs a lot of #selfcare to create a positive and balanced mindset in our everyday approaches to situations and create a stable platform and support system for our everyday adversities.
A few (ok, a lot of) words from our founder:
Ferwa Chevel Khalfan, Founder, Aristos
Ferwa was born in Toronto but grew up in the city she still calls home, Dubai, before moving to New York City, and eventually to Long Island (basically a #thirdculturekid) where she now lives with her husband.
Welcome to Aristos! This platform has been a passion and dream of mine for quite a while. I am so happy to share this journey with all of you!
I firmly believe that the way we approach our everyday lives, from family to social life and from how we interact and react with people to our mindset, can all affect our community and bring a positive change. I hope that Aristos helps people find answers to a lot of questions we all have in our everyday lives - to live our best life, and over time hopefully make a broader change in humanity, to simply be and have better humans.
While I will NEVER, ever force my religion on anyone, I do find inspiration in a lot of it. Aristos' articles' content is holistically approached by professionals in all fields and does not intentionally promote any religion on our audience or readers. Contrary to its reputation a lot of times, Islam has always taught me not to take life too seriously and balance it out, not to indulge in wastage, to be kind, mindful of, and to others, and to believe that everything happens for a reason. Overall it guided me to learn to have a holistic approach to life and wellness and have #positivevibes and an educated mind!
I do not claim to know anything or be perfect, but I love learning about different things, and I am excited for you to be here and learn with me!
There is no one way to live, but guidelines are always needed, and I hope we can support you in this way!
Welcome, and enjoy!
I would love to hear from you too! So please send me a note, or any questions, via our contact page.
Ferwa Chevel Khalfan