Being there for every moment of my son’s growth and development into an individual, allows me to help him navigate through this complicated world with the help of my acquired knowledge and experience while still giving him the space to be a child and to rejoice in the short-lived beauty that is childhood…
What feelings arise when hearing the word solitude? Your initial thoughts may tell a story about your relationship with solitude…
If someone asked you this one simple question, who are you? What would you say? Would you say your name? Your gender? Your ethnicity or maybe your professional status? Your initial answer will tell a lot about you…
This story is proof that dreams do come true. Never give up on what you really want in life, no matter how far fetched the idea may seem…
Fear is a pesky little fucker, isn’t it? It hides in your closet when you’re little. It accompanies you to the dentist even when you grow up. It sits on the handlebars when you’re learning to ride the bike. It joins you on interviews, crashes your presentations and completely overhauls your desire to take an exciting risk. Fear is something I’ve lived with most of my life. Like a trusted guardian, it never left my side, it only shape-shifted from one form to another. I did my best to manage it, often calling it something other than its name, like nervousness, anxiety or butterflies. But at the very core of it all, it was always fear. Fear of pain. Fear of hurt. Fear of failure. Fear of change. Fear of rejection. Fear of loneliness. Fear of judgment. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of not being enough. Fear of not having enough. Fear of not doing enough. Fear of falling in love, due to fear of heartbreak. Fear. Fear. Fear. Fear! Exhausting. But recently, something changed. It happened on a brisk summer night. Sitting around a campfire beneath a star-studded sky, I began to share a thought with a circle of friends. They kindly listened as I rambled about this and that, but as soon as the words “I’m just afraid…” escaped my lips, one of my friends interrupted, and with his stern stoic voice said the following words: “Don’t be afraid. Don’t ever be afraid.” Something special happened in this moment. They were simple words. Words that I have heard many times before. Yet on this night, they felt brand new. Maybe it was the tone of his voice, maybe it was the beautiful nature around us, maybe it was the strong…