Pomalo: The Croatian Way of Slow Living
There’s a word that drifts softly on the Adriatic breeze: Pomalo.In Croatia, it means “take it easy,” but it’s more than just a phrase. It’s a way of life, a tempo, a nervous system in harmony. It encourages you to do things slowly, gently, and with ease, to savour life rather than rush through it. […]
Top 5 Mind-Body Practices Every Woman Should Know
In the constant rush of modern life, many women find themselves living from the neck up, thinking, planning, organising, and caretaking. At the same time, their bodies quietly carry the burden of unprocessed stress. The body remembers what the mind may try to forget. We store tension in our muscles, anxiety in our breath, grief […]
How to Live Mindfully in a Busy World
In our fast-paced, hyperconnected world, stillness has become a rare luxury. Our minds are constantly pulled between notifications, responsibilities, and endless to-do lists. We live in what neuroscientist Daniel Levitin calls “the age of information overload,” where our attention, our most valuable mental resource, is fragmented across multiple streams of input.Yet amidst this chaos, mindfulness […]
Reclaiming Your Voice After Silence
There comes a moment, often quiet, sometimes urgent, when a woman realises she has gone missing from her own life. Not in body, perhaps, but in voice. She has become the dependable one, the caregiver, the achiever, the one who keeps everything together. She knows how to soothe others, how to show up, and how […]
What Is Neuro-Affirming Therapy (And Why It Matters for Women Today)
A quiet revolution is happening in mental health, inviting us to stop trying to “fix” ourselves and start understanding how we are wired. This is called neuro-affirming therapy, which brings a radical change in how we see the brain, the body, and the self. For women, who have often been misdiagnosed, misunderstood, or dismissed, it […]
Midlife as Initiation: From Exhaustion to Breakthrough
Midlife arrives quietly at first. It rarely announces itself with clarity or grace. Instead, it slips in as a fatigue we can’t shake, a dissonance we can’t name, or a sudden grief for a life that once felt like our own. For many, midlife does not begin with a celebration but with an unravelling, a […]
Your Nervous System is Not Broken: A Loving Reframe
In moments of overwhelm, shutdown, anxiety, or panic, it’s easy to think something is wrong with us. We might feel hijacked by our emotions, unable to cope, and flooded with self-judgement. But what if we reframe these states not as signs of brokenness, but as intelligent responses from a nervous system that is doing its […]
The Inner Critic: How to Befriend It, Not Battle It
We all recognise the voice. The one that whispers, nags, or roars with disapproval. It tells us we’re not doing enough, not good enough, not thin enough, not smart enough. It criticises our parenting, our productivity, our bodies, our choices. It keeps a constant commentary on everything we should be doing better. In psychology, we […]
The Power of Pause: How Mindful Moments Change the Brain
In a rapidly moving world that values productivity, output, and constant stimulation, we often overlook the simple act of pausing. However, neuroscience and contemplative psychology show that the ability to pause consciously, mindfully, and without judgment has transformative power. It not only breaks the momentum of reactive cycles but also helps rewire our neural pathways, […]
The Art of Saying No Without Guilt: Boundary-Setting as a Spiritual and Psychological Necessity
There is something deeply unsettling about the small, familiar sting of guilt that often appears when we say no. It’s as if we’ve broken some invisible social contract, one that calls for constant availability, compliance, or self-sacrifice. For many people, especially those conditioned to put others’ needs before their own, saying no can feel like […]