I was never good with setting boundaries. My upbringing was similar to the millions of other girls; be kind, don’t be bothersome, listen to and obey your parents, what the neighbours will say, and all the additional emotional baggage, we as girls are burdened with from the young age. My…

Epictetus This quote by the famous Greek Stoic philosopher has been rolling through my mind for some months. To be exact, since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, which has turned our lives upside down in 2020. The picture and the functioning of the world we knew until March this…

What has the Death of my Father taught me about Love and Life A father is a hero in his daughter’s life. Or at least it should be that way. I know that many girls suffer because their father was not present when they needed him the most, or was even abusive to them. I am astonished to hear how many girls have…

The wise men said: “If it’s not right, don’t do it, if it’s not true, don’t say it” by Marcus Aurelius, and: “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom” by Thomas Jefferson. …

- Facing challenges and hardship in our lives, we quite often ask ourselves “why me’?” “Why is it happening to me right now, life is so unfair.” We are searching for answers outside of ourselves, and we blame the circumstances, other people being a cause for our misery. But as…

A personal strategy for coping the pandemic — no one-size-fits-all There is no single recipe or strategy to cope with the current situation, but a multitude of them, each person deals with it in its unique way. People are different; some are more of optimistic nature, other pessimistic, and we…