Sips of Cha.

Personal Reflections

My thoughts on life, personal journey, experiences and self-development.

Let your values guide you in 2025

The beginning of each year is a good time to set new resolutions, intentions and goals for the year ahead. However, more important than setting any goal or intention is, before...

13 reasons to laugh and smile

Humor is an antidote to many ills, without it life would be gray and dull. And there are two points about humor that I want to clarify, one is quantity and the other is...

Daydreams from a self-photographic essay

Two weeks ago I went for a photo shoot with a friend on a wild beach in the cold, wind and very early hours. I woke up at half past four. It was a sudden urge to do...

Women who run with the wolves - The Woman's Bible

If this masterpiece had been published in the Middle Ages, it would surely have been on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the list of books banned by the Catholic Church. What a fortune to live in a time when we were free to absorb such wisdom...

5 years in New Zealand

Five years ago my life turned upside down. It all started when I met my partner in October 2014 through mutual friends. Daniel was doing his OE (Overseas Experience). O...

Who God is

God is not a father. God is neither she nor he. God is not a person. God is not an animal. God is not a bacterium or a virus. Much less a plankton. But he is in all of that. God...

I'm back

Finally. After 2 years I'm back. I created the blog with the aim of sharing my experiences. To tell myself about the things I've been doing, learning and loving, and at the same time...

Why risk it?

I've been a bit absent around here. I insist on waiting for inspiration to strike so that I can write a quality post. When I'm not inspired, I write and delete everything. So I decided to read more books...

24 months in New Zealand

This July marks two years since I landed on Kiwi soil. I couldn't leave it blank because a lot has happened over these two years and I've had to undergo a lot of changes....

My Reminders

One day I opened my e-mail and there was an e-mail from Linked In with several articles written by users. There were a lot of inspiring and informative texts, so I opened it to read the...