For a month no makeup. That's the challenge I'm going through with a hope for greater self- acceptance.

Finely, my inner teenager embraced and integrated. It happened unannounced and just in time, because my son is in his early teen years and I need to be ready to guide him through his teenage life. It was a sudden feeling that I am now capable of embracing, loving, nourishing and parenting my teenage self. This enlightening realisation happened...

Saint Martin's Day (Martinmas), sometimes called Old Halloween is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated on 11 November. In the Middle Ages and early modern period, it was an important festival in many parts of Europe. In these regions, it marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter.

This is a Russian poster that says, "Children, kitchen, church. The greatness and meaning for a Russian woman". It represents the epitome of old fashioned values Russian women should aspire to and, sadly, it's not that original. They just copied it from the German slogan, "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche", which was used during the 19th century German Empire...

Painting: Meeting the ancestors by Rodulfo.

We are stepping into the dark part of the year. Crops of the harvest are stored. Nights are getting longer. Nature rejuvenate. The cycle is slowly going to its end so it can reborn again.

In the next few articles I have the ambition to put things into context and narratives that are normally quite hard to see if you do not have any cultural or historical connection with Central and Eastern Europe. Also, in the western bloc, there was not a profound education about the eastern bloc and vice versa. I think it...

My journey of womb healing completely changed my life. I am still on this journey of huge self development and understanding of my body and feminine energies.

Subtle forces can be very powerful. Especially when they are precisely named and directed.