Healthy Food, Work related Stress – and Christmas

It’s been a while since my last blog. The reason: Christmas. Well, not „Christmas“ itself, but rather the business around it, which this year I got very much involved in. The reason for that: „money“, of course. What else. Because of my current financial situation it had suddenly, in a moment of utter inspiration, occured…

Entgiften

Ganz ohne Verzicht. Wie soll das gehen? – Ein Zwischenbericht Sind wir ein Resultat äußerer Einflüsse und Prägungen? Und was sind diese Einflüsse, die mich nähren? In welchem Ausmaß gelingt es mir tatsächlich, ICH zu sein, ohne es anderen Recht zu machen, mich anzupassen, Kompromisse zu schließen, Rücksicht zu nehmen… und mich dabei trotzdem oder…

Woman

The feminist movement over the past decades has brought across the impression that modern women have to think and act like men in order to be worth something. I don’t have children, I am actually in the middle of working life and trying to get my second documentary film financed and finished, BUT: I don’t…

Discipline

A word with many different connotations and feelings to it: discipline. Path 1. Have a vision, make it a goal that I want to reach. Come up with a plan, a schedule. Go for it. Every day work on it. Hours. Train. Work. Review. Reflect. Train harder. Work more. Reach your goal. Check. – Exhaustion!!!…

GER-SPAN-GLISH

Saturday night I was invited for dinner near the German speaking city of Vienna with my Spanish-speaking boyfriend – together we use both languages. My friends, the couple who invited us, are from Australia/England/Austria, we are used to speaking English together. So there I am, switching between those three languages, which – don’t get me wrong…

Labels vs. Uniqueness

I went to a very posh school in my city, quite conservative, but in my teenage years I started to be more rebellious. I felt I was different than the others, that I had something to say and stand up for, but I didn’t know what it was yet. Two years ago I finally finished my…

Rich tourists

Tonight I had a strange dream. I dreamed I had spent 90.000 Euros on the first part of my SALIDA journey – that included: crossing the Atlantic ocean on the „Tres Hombres“, a sustainable cargo sailing boat all trainsportation between Belém in Brasil, to Puerto Maldonado in Perú, to Cuzco and back, to Lima and…

Women traveling solo

In two weeks it will have been one year that I hopped on the train at six in the morning. I left the quiet village I was living in to go to Portugal and embark on a sailing boat from there, in which I would cross the Atlantic ocean and end up in Brasil. From…

Breathing at the wall

A saying goes: „strengthen your strengths“, the idea behind that being that if you get better at what you are already good at, other areas will profit from it as well. It’s like within a team, where the whole team profits from one member being really good at something that might not come natural to…

On pausing while going for my vision

Do you have those days as well? You get up in the morning and don’t really know where to start. Nothing feels important to do, it’s like it doesn’t matter anyway, because there is no obvious need to act. It might be stronger in my case: being a freelance many-things. There are long-term goals in…