Tempo di lettura: 9 minutiToxic people come into our lives with all their traumas, insecurities, beliefs, and leave us in a state of depression, anxiety, stress, lack of self-esteem, to the point where we doubt our own mental health. By the time we realise it, if we realise it at all, we are already pretty battered. Friends, family members, colleagues: we can meet toxic people in any context, have had relationships with them for a lifetime or have only known them recently. A few […]
Tempo di lettura: 4 minutiAll right, here we go again. My last flight was in March 2020. Then life moved online, and my travels between Italy and Bavaria were by car. I had no problem experiencing what was fancy called ‘SOCIAL distancing’ but which in fact turned out to be just that: the physical distance, instead of giving rise to new forms of empathy in this society already severely affected by the chronic indifference syndrome, only amplified the existing. Those who were lonely remained […]
Tempo di lettura: 8 minutiWhile observing a world in which we try to categorize and dominate emotions, to divide them into good and bad, beautiful and ugly, a world in which the hero or heroine of our times are those who do business, “make it on their own*” by exploiting anyone who comes within reach under the guise of the underpaid experience “that fortifies you”-an obsessive mantra that has entered the daily vocabulary, a testament to the cultural drift we are experiencing – I […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiA dear friend said this some time ago, right when the funeral of a person who died by suicide was being celebrated, a very sensitive person, precisely. He said this while talking about the fact that it is complicated to be in the world if you are the one who carries the sensitivity that doesn’t know prejudice, that doesn’t contemplate boundaries or individualism, that moves the love of diversity, that doesn’t feel the need to label or judge. It is […]
Tempo di lettura: 8 minuti‘Self-care’: a term that has now become part of our everyday vocabulary, often abused and shredded by practical acts that have nothing to do with its profound meaning. ‘Self-care’: a term that has now become part of our everyday vocabulary, often abused and shredded by practical acts that have nothing to do with its profound meaning. I don’t have any desire to spread self-care practice suggestions; the web is full of practical tips by those who tell us how to […]
Tempo di lettura: 16 minuti“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ― Audre Lorde During an international conference, I was privileged to hear social justice activist Jessica Ayden Li speak about radical self-care, which she defines this way: Radical self-care has to do with creating space and giving ourselves* approval to break away from traditional beliefs of always putting others before ourselves. It is about making a personal commitment every day to deliberately take […]
