How do we manage our own time and what conclusions can we draw from this? In the book “Wishcraft. How to Get What You Really Want”, the author, Barbara Sher, says that after analyzing our day, we most likely find ourselves belonging to one of the types: “procrastinator” or “good person”. Which one are you…
Many of us have heard of concepts like siesta, hygge or hakuna matata. There are many such little concepts of happiness around the world. What will happen if we combine them in one comprehensive collection and then extract the essence? What makes us happy and who knows some little secrets about it? Definition of happiness…
Lots of personal struggles, a few therapists, and John Gottman’s science-based book, Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work, is what this text is based on. The title of the article expanded from the concept of marriage to the concept of “relationship”, since most of these principles are applicable not only to marriage, but also to…
There is much more love and connection in the world than I had allowed myself to see. Vivek Murthy – Together I spent half my life in depression, and I would have stayed there if I hadn’t come across Vivek Murthy’s book and learned that the name of that depression is loneliness. In fact, Vivek…
However, today I’m in Spain. At the moment, school is here until 2:00 p.m., and now there’s also a long Easter vacation – 12 days. No one pays me for my or babies’ sick leaves and vacations, no one reimburses me for the time spent on the child, nor for the lost personal and professional…
Sometimes, being angry, I think it’s the bottom already – and it knocks from the bottom again, then I want to run from you, from home, at least somewhere. Every day since I became a mother I celebrate the minute of the day when you were born. Viktoriya Chernyakhivska When I yell at my child,…
Lately, my child and I have been talking about death a lot. Honesty is at the heart of my parenting method, so I keep looking for a way to explain death to a child, to a four-year-old child, so that it is honest, but simple enough, so that it is simple, but complex enough to…
Last month, I did an experiment dedicated to my 34th birthday: I observed what principles and observations I rely on, what are my main lived-through revelations that I constantly return to in my mind. After filtering the variations and systematizing them, I got the following result. So, my main principles to live by. Trust and…
What childhood fears are out there, do they pass and how to handle them. My childhood fears In my childhood, I had two traumas related to fears and at the same time mistrust. The first one was a purely instinctive fear of swallowing pills, the throat was getting convulsively constricted and that’s it. Mom didn’t…
There are different times, today you are a good mother, tomorrow you are bad, today you used wise advice from a book, tomorrow you forgot to. The truth is that we all make mistakes trying to balance this life, and that’s totally okay.
