Vulnerability feels like you’ve been cracked open, with your fragility for everyone to see. A weight on your chest is making it hard to breathe and your muscles feel as if they’ve worked hard, but all they’ve done is sleep. There is a heightened sensitivity that is palpable at your fingertips and your skin gets […]
I love being a housewife. I love ironing my husband’s shirts. I love bringing him breakfast in bed. I love baking bread. I love cooking healthy meals. I love taking care of our home. I love going into town and go to the grocer’s, the butcher’s and the pharmacist’s to buy what we need. I […]
It is not what you think it is. It is not shouting “you can do it, you can do it!” at yourself, or having others do that for you. It is not kicking your ass and pushing yourself to go for it. It is not bungee jumping, diving into ice cold water pools or walking […]
I remember making a decision when I was cycling home from primary school one day. I was thinking about life and figured that if I just did what I thought everybody expected of me, I would be safe. I’m an extremely sensitive person so I sort of picked up what people were like, convinced myself […]
Life in the Tuscan countryside is awesome; its vast views, its deep silence, its awe-inspiring nature. It’s gorgeous up here and living in a farmhouse with my man seems to come straight from a fairy tale. This is the life. It’s calm, it’s healthy and it allows for us to grow. This is what we […]
You know how they say: “when one door closes, another one opens”? That’s exactly what will happen for me by closing the door to my dream home in Florence and opening my heart for a life with my dream man in the Tuscan countryside. In order to grow you must leave the old behind and […]
Saying no is a gift; both to yourself as to the other person. Now you might be wondering why The YES Woman in person is writing a post on The Art of Saying No. Well, because saying no to others means saying yes to yourself; and so it is a positive thing in the end. […]
I’m writing this post to my past self. The girl that was stuck in severe anxiety and nearly killed herself by wanting to do everything perfectly. That girl that felt she needed to be special, to do her utmost best and be a kind of prodigy in order to be deemed normal, to be accepted, […]
2017 has been a pretty spectacular year: I travelled to Hawaii, Mallorca and Paris. I found my dream home in Florence, I grew my business into a really enjoyable and successful venture and – last but not least – I found the man of my dreams. Now, this might sound like I was born with […]
Women Are Weak Or so I thought. I thought being a girl was a synonym for being weak, I thought it meant being less than, being too sensitive and therefore a burden. I thought it was wrong to be weak, so at an incredibly young age I decided I wanted to be a boy. And […]
I Just Want to Be Fucking Free Free to roam the streets without anyone seeing me. Free to live out loud and to sit with myself silently. Free to ask for what I need and receive it unapologetically. Free to go to places and walk till I hit the sea. Free to fully let go […]
