Personal growth
Breathwork: start by understanding the exercise
What are you actually being asked to do when a video says “breathwork”? A quiet breathing exercise and an intensive session are not interchangeable. I would…
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Personal growth
A promise kept. A question asked. Something you finally begin. I write about personal growth through choices you can recognise in an ordinary day. Start with self-respect and the promises you keep or turning an intention into a next step.
When the next step feels difficult, explore acting while you are still afraid. When you need another perspective, try choosing a book for the question you are living with.
Personal growth
You can seek support even when your parents do not understand
You wanted your parents to understand. They did not. That disappointment can hurt, but it does not have to decide whether you seek support. You can…
Personal growth
Spirituality begins with how you treat people
Crystals, clothes, festivals. None of them tells me how you treat another person. For me, spirituality has to show up there, in the ordinary moments too.
Personal growth
How to ask me a clear question
Tell me what happened. Tell me what you are trying to decide. A clear question gives us somewhere to begin, even when the situation behind it…
Personal growth
Keep creating without giving every hostile comment your time
You came to make something. Then one hostile comment takes over your afternoon. I do not want to give someone that much control over my attention.…
Personal growth
Before you decide, imagine everyone doing it
Before I give myself permission to do something, I try a question: what if everyone did this? It becomes harder to excuse a choice when I…
Personal growth
Let self-belief become a decision you can act on
What would believing in yourself change today? Perhaps you would share the first version. Ask the question. Say no. I want self-belief to become a decision…
Personal growth
Trusting the next step when you cannot see the whole path
I do not see the whole path. I can still take care with the next step. That is what trust means to me while life is…
Personal growth
Changing direction at 35, 40 or 55
35. 40. 55. Which number did you decide was too late? Changing direction does not erase what you have learned. You bring that experience with you.
Personal growth
My evening routine is a personal boundary, not a universal clock
Bed by 22:00. Up around 05:00–06:00. No food after 18:30. Those were the boundaries I set out for my evenings. The times are personal; the question…