Conversations with friends: motherhood and ambitions

Creating space for the essentials requires constant effort. It's easy to lose sight of how vital these are to my sense of self. Recently, a friend and I discussed our creative ambitions and the challenge of achieving them. We realized that while we have plenty of ideas, it is often the execution that stumps us. After some reflection, I've researched and curated proven solutions to overcome them.

SelfDaphnyAugust 10, 2024Motherhood, selfcareComment

How to feel better, when you are feeling low

SelfDaphnyJanuary 2, 2021self talk, wellbeing, selfcare

How you talk to self influences your relations with others

The relation we have to self, mirrors the relation we have to others. Wether we are aware or not. If there is lack within us, lack will show up in relation to others. This is how to improve your inner dialogue.

SelfDaphnyJanuary 2, 2021inner dialogue, guided meditation, selfcare, wellbeing, self talk

Privilege in modern day wellness

I wrote about the privilege of modern self care before, but never as articulate as Zadie Smith put it in an interview (2018) with Arnon Grunberg. She talks about the privilege of focusing on your existential identity while others still have to make room for their political identity. In other words, there is no room to question the existential: "Who am I? What will my place be in this world?" If you are still making the world around you aware that the physical you, the political you is just as valuable and deserves the same autonomous reality that they know for themselves.