Personal Development

Tips and practices to grow, learn and transform.

Healing and Maturity

A reflection on my childhood wound shaped by abandonment, emotional maturation, the breaking of inherited patterns, and the choice of self-love...

Chopping Wood, Carrying Water

My favorite newsletters of the moment, reflection on New Year resolutions and goal lists, and photos from my morning walk today…

The End of the Experiment, Not the Crossing

Today, my experiment of writing every day for 21 days comes to an end...

Four Lessons from 2025

Here are four lessons that solidified in me this year...

The Complexity of Simplicity

Simplicity is not about having little content or adopting aesthetic or material minimalism. Simplicity is the ability to reduce complexity without losing what is essential…

Waiting for the Rain

The weather forecast today predicted rain for the afternoon. It said it would begin around two o’clock, and indeed everything suggested it was on its way…

Life, Bring Me People with This Superpower

There is an abyss between what I understand, what I want to say, what I actually say — and what you want to hear, how you listen, and what you understand...

Placebo and Nocebo Effects

Everything we do is supported by something invisible: an internal conviction – whether it works in our favor or against us...

What a Door Handle Brought Back to Me

Today I finished a task I didn’t really have the option not to do. After completing the bathroom renovation in November, the only thing left was painting the new door...

Effort vs. Steadiness

Have you ever noticed how a tree grows? It never forces itself to grow; it simply maintains a continuous process of photosynthesis, deepening roots, and repeating cycles of sun and water…