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Category:personal growth

mental decluttering
  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • January 17, 2023
  • minimalism, personal growth

Mental decluttering

One reason we feel stressed and overwhelmed is that we run out of space. Mentally. But mental decluttering is the answer to an overstimulated mind.

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • October 19, 2022
  • personal growth

Let us embrace our comfort zone and move beyond

I hear people encouraging us to break out of the comfort zone and jump straight into the jungle that’s called life. That is scary! I like my safe place, but I am happy and ready to move beyond so I can grow.

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • October 11, 2022
  • personal growth

Letting go of your judgement liberates me.

Criticism is concealed with crooked smiles, comme il faut comments, hollow politeness and passive-aggressiveness.

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • October 3, 2022
  • mental health, personal growth

Drops of happiness

“Live every day like it is your last day” is probably a piece of irresponsible advice and a foolish thing to do. It puts so much pressure on us. 

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • September 27, 2022
  • personal growth, relationships

Expectations lead to disappointment

Why do we really expect others to act according to our will? To read our minds? Let us keep our expectations to ourselves for us to grow.

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • September 20, 2022
  • mental health, personal growth

Be in charge of your stress

The day starts with stress, continues with more, and finishes with a new wave of anxiety for the next day. So much pressure is put on us by our partners, children, relatives, friends, employers, colleagues, social media, unrealistic societal standards and expectations and the FOMO -fear of missing out. 

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • September 6, 2022
  • mental health, minimalism, personal growth

The skill of slowing down

Nevertheless, it is never late to acknowledge the need for and practice the skill of slowing down. Anyway, we will never achieve to solve the equation of time over tasks.

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • July 19, 2022
  • mental health, personal growth, relationships

Let the kids embrace boredom

When a child yells “I’m bored”, they might as well be hungry, curious about their parents’ doings or seeking attention. Let the children be bored! You cannot imagine how valuable and necessary boredom is. Offer your child free time to do nothing and applaud their boredom.

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • May 17, 2022
  • passions, personal growth

Me , myself and I

I highly value my alone time. Indeed, I am great friends with myself and enjoy my company. It is a relationship that has been building over the years and has now reached the point where I intentionally set aside time for me, myself and I. What do I do during these one-to-one dates? 

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  • Ioanna Gkiza-Soeder
  • February 28, 2022
  • goals, passions, personal growth

New reality requires action

New reality, call for action It was a shock. First, weird and then a shocking realisation. Not so much the news of the pregnancy; this was surprising but not unexpected, as we were planning to […]

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