My dad has a chronic illness. He did his best raising me and my brother despite his conditions. Since I can remember I was always worried about him. I felt fear that he might die soon, I felt helpless that I couldn’t help him, I felt anger that he was sometimes spiraling around his suffering. […]
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SUNDAY MORNING, 8AM Prepared with a loaded backpack full of food, water, clothes and other essential items as well as non-essentials for increasing loading weight, I start my little one-day adventure. I plotted together a route the evening before that will take me over 4 peaks on the east of the Porto Santo with some
This blog still feels like a familiar space, even though i was away for some time. It’s almost midnight. i’m sipping cinnamon/ginger tea and reflecting about life. So much has happened since my last visit. I could share so much, create endlessly.And at the same time, I don’t feel the pressing need to
The year started with a lot of goodbyes. First, I needed to let go of a romantic connection that got me intoxicated, but included shadow tendencies for which I didn’t have the capacities to deal with. I sat with my inner child and hold her afterwards. We healed together over the next weeks. We said
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It is 1 pm, and I just got off my 2nd work meeting for today via Zoom. I look at the fully scribbled paper in front of me. My head is buzzing from so much information input. My heart is racing not to know what to do. We definitely have to delay the timeline.
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life as a digital nomad on madeira feels timeless. with a stunning natural environment, countless ways of spending the day on the island, a high fluactuation in people coming and staying with broad spectrum of interests:it’s paradise if you are able to establish some kind of daily routine, close circle of friends or people that
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tea, journaling, nature, art, sunset – my daily pillars life lately is all about cultivating patience & simplicity. cleansing, letting go, emptiness. i love getting to know myself. taking myself out on dates.finding out what i really want, what i like, what really nourishes my soul. when i’m too caught up in my mind and
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Born in 1996, I still remember a world where we were not constantly plugged to a phone or computer with instant internet access.I got my first smartphone at age 16. Before that, I called my friends on landline practising what to say if their parents picked up and sent SMS with character limitations (and they
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This year we celebrate the year of the wood dragon!🐲Dragons are associated with prosperity, generosity & leadership. Together with wood, a yang element with the spirit of spring, it’s gonna be an expansive & active year. Growing up in Germany, even though we celebrated lunar new year every year with really good food and family
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It is okay to feel inadequate in a world where it is normal that people are constantly stressed, rushing from A to B, lost in their own bubble forgetting that they are part of a bigger whole, complaining continuously about things they cannot change, caught up in an endless victim mindset. It is okay to