I’m so tired, I’m falling asleep when reading. Just as my doll. It is true, these past weeks my body has felt tired and heavy and instead of walking just normally, it feels like I have been dragging it along, against its will. And it definitely doesn’t feel like I have neurons firing in my…
Inspired by an article* I recently read, I have decided to give away one thing a day, every day for a month. The experience is said to be transformational, starting with creating a shift in focus from one self, to how to make someone else happy. It needn’t be something big, or something you bought,…
When meeting acquaintances on the street or in the grocery store, and they’re looking at me with kind, big, compassionate (sometimes pitying) eyes, asking how we’re doing, I tell them: “There are no words which could even come close to describing our current life. Not the difficulties and struggles, fears and exhaustion, but neither the…
Lean in to the difficult emotion. Don’t try to suppress it, or to wave it off. Stay with it. Where do you feel it in your body? I want to run and hide. Okay. Take a deep breath. Now, what do you feel in your body? There’s a big lump in my throat. Makes me…
I’m good at taking breaks. Sometimes, I’m even wondering if I’m too good at taking breaks. Not today, though. This may sound absurd, but today, first day at home after vacation, I feel it would be really beneficial to push the pause button. I’ve been away for three weeks. In the raw and beautiful north…
Summer… There are lots of wonderful things about summer, still it isn’t my best season. For several reasons. But here’s the one I find important to talk about: body image. I wish, I wouldn’t care what other people think. I admit I do. I wish, that next year, I will be able to write a…
“I want to get as calm as the Dalai Lama”, my friend said. I felt a big smile on my face. Yeah, it didn’t feel like I was smiling, it felt like I was BEING SMILED. And just thinking about it, makes it happen again. Not only are my lips smiling, but my heart is…
Ever since I was little, I wanted to be a writer. My biggest dream is to write a brilliant, captivating novel – to weave magic with words. All the same, as for many aspiring writers, there’s only the idea OF a novel and not even an idea FOR a novel. Needless to say, the only…
Eclectic Tree 