I decided to actually see an osteopath when the pain in my left hip started to change who I was and the way I behaved.
Author: Cǎtǎ Gǎrdescu
I am a connector, a lover of all things beautiful and a fighter when things get hard. I try each day to live truthfully, learn as much as I possibly can and push myself in the right directions. I am learning to trust my gut and my instincts and embrace uncertainty.
The problem with compassion
The problem with compassion is that the door too it is called self compassion. Unless you try it on yourself first and therefore see the door and learn to open it, there is absolutely no way you can open the door for others.
What’s In A Job, That Which We Call Important?
I dream of a place where we look at each other so much more as partners rather than us and them and where we take the time to understand each other and the part we play in designing the experiences that shape the kids we love.
What I have learned in my first year of working and living abroad, in the land of hygge and happy.
Because nothing seems to have a purpose unless we find the answer to “what is this here to teach me” about it, I reflected for a bit on the few but powerful lessons my first year in Denmark, the land of hygge and happy, taught me.
I am not broken. I am a goddamn cheetah.
Between stimulus and response there lies a pause. (…) And in that pause, breathe in to tame the fire in you, especially when it was fed by biases, injustice, manipulation, gaslighting, lies … . Breathe and before you act, ask yourself: is it SAFE for me to show my heart and emotions here?
From a woman labeled “angry” and “too emotional “ to her younger, caged, self: you are ok!
As I grew up, in a family that was no stranger to hardship and quite strong twists of fate, there were two phrases I would hear from my caretakers (parents, grandparents, extended family, teachers, neighbors) that have shaped my reactions in my later professional and personal life.
Connect 