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Seven years of living in Poland: Part I
This November marks seven years since I moved abroad to Poland for work. I landed the night before my twenty-sixth birthday (always making somewhat of a big entrance). At the time, I knew only a few facts I remembered from my history and political science classes, and not a single word of Polish. Originally, the…
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Reflections on World Mental Health Day
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, so it is time to take something from my head and my phone notes and write about it here. Why is it that when someone breaks a leg, we treat it as an emergency and instinctively show compassion, but when it comes to mental health issues, many of us…
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Embracing Change, Letting Go, and what happens in between
It’s been a minute since I last wrote something. August was chaotic, but fun. Just when I got the hang of brat summer, it was already ending. Now, September is here: very mindful, very demure, and one of my favourite months. Since childhood, I have always looked forward to September. To this day, for me,…