It is exactly a year now that I am traveling! If I pick the one most important thing I learned during my trip, It would be the very topic of this post: “Discovering Emotions – physically”.
To Listen And To Be Seen
In my blog entry “How I Use Pain to Transform my Life” I wrote about my journey of handling and living with chronic pain. This topic challenges me with two, sometimes conflicting, needs: The one of being seen and the one of avoiding self-pity.
Early Morning Poem
Yesterday, I wrote some lines in my travel journal, thinking they would make a good poem. This morning after waking up, I went with the flow and wrote a couple of lines in a couple of minutes. I want to share them here without much editing or corrections: Lying on a way too soft mattress,…
Visiting the Lonely Islands – A Quest to Happiness
Last week, for the first time in my life, I stepped my foot on a real lonely island. I booked a five-day catamaran tour from Panama to Colombia, including three days in the San Blas Islands, which are a group of 360 paradise like Caribbean coral islands.
How I Use Pain to Transform my Life
In “The Frog King”, a young princess loses her golden ball in a well. A clever frog dives in and returns the ball, but requests the princess’ love and companionship in return. Naively, the princess promises everything the frog wants, but runs back to her castle as soon as she gets a hold of her golden…
How I learnt I can learn anything
I get nervous and a glimpse of fear stirs within me. Over my shoulder I see the blue wall of water building up behind me. On the side, the sun is going down, coloring the ocean and the sky in a deep beautiful red. Five pelicans glide gracefully over my head. For a moment, I…