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The single best New Year’s resolution you can ever have

New Year’s Eve has come and gone, and with its passing arrived January. All our social media news feeds have been filled with “New Year, New Me” posts, people’s New Year’s resolutions, 2024 action plans, planned milestones and goals for the past 11 days, and craze is only now slowly dying down. If you’re still looking […]

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New chapter, same book

If you’ve been reading this blog for some time, you know how important the topic of growth and progress is for me. I have talked about it in countless different ways, from emphasizing the pain of the process to mentioning concrete steps one can take to make their own path. What I think we still […]

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Spread your wings

Most of us have had a pretty tough few years, there’s no denying that. As if life weren’t challenging us enough with romantic relationships and breakups, parenting, overcoming traumas, working to make ends meet and, generally, living, we had to deal with all that during a series of “once-in-a-lifetime events” such as a global pandemic […]

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No Band-Aids for growing pains

Have you ever been in a tough situation where you just thought “I wish it were over already”? Whether it’s writing your thesis, the last months of pregnancy or getting over a particularly tough breakup, we often wish we were on the other side of the situation already. Or, if that can’t be, we wish […]

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Being truthful to others – and ourselves II.

In the previous post, I decided to share my thoughts on being honest to others: the reasons we lie and why we should aim to be more truthful towards the people around us. This is something that, although it may not always come naturally to us, we have known, understood and consciously practised for some […]

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Keep growing

Many of us are under the (false) impression that becoming of age is the prefect equivalent of entering adulthood. While this may legally be the case, we should not take that as a licence to sit back and consider ourselves “a finished good”. It is not just the first few years of our lives when […]