Sometimes things go sideways for us – a high-achieving girl competing in swimming turns into a depressed, even lazy, couch potato. When my mental health started to twindle, my physical wellness went with it. I gained kilos to the point of not being able to move due to the issues weight can bring with it….
In the next two posts, I take a look at one of the more persisting issues of our world: Bullying. I’ll talk about it all the way from my kindergarten days to adulthood, as it has been a key ingredient in how I ended up and is something to be talked about – preferably as…
Internet dwellers, gamers, and other less traditionally socially inclined people have a rough time when being talked about in the ‘’real-life’’ circles. The people we talk to over the internet and know to be real human beings are often played down, and we are told to go out and make ‘’real friends’’. What are these…
One of the questions mentioned in the book (Tunne Lukkosi by Kimmo Takanen) is ‘How would you write about your childhood?’. And well, since I’m a writer, I figured this would be the perfect exercise for me! So here goes, buckle up for roughly a thousand words on the topic of ‘Mrs. Vana’s Childhood’. My…
What are traditional family values? According to this dating site, there are many values that should be taken into account for both men and women in a traditional setting. While I agree with some of them, I certainly don’t think that they all apply in today’s world, especially in my case. A woman’s value is…
The book says that if we’ve learned to forget bad things from the past, we are likely still trying to do it when we are adults. In today’s post, I will look at some of the things I might want to forget, although most of the things I’ve truly cast from my mind happened during…
As our lives get more hectic by the day, it’s important to find moments of solace and relaxation. What better way for it than to start thinking of your everyday chores as a part of the chill-out process! It is mindfulness meditation As a BPD person, I’m on the way to being a databank of…
In this post, I will be taking a trip into the darker side of my memories to contrast the previous installment in the series, and see what I can find out. I will take a moment to recall what it was like as a child, to go through my parent separation, and then see what…
It seems that in today’s world the word ‘boundary’ is doomed to be taken in one of two ways: Either it is demonized as a way of control, or it is taken to the extreme with people even considering asking consent from babies before they proceed to change the diaper. On my journey through my…
In this post, I will be taking a trip to some places and situations/activities in my past that I enjoyed, trying to recall what it was like in those moments. It is a part of the mental practices pictured in the book “Tunne Lukkosi” by Kimmo Takanen. Fishing In my childhood, we used to go…