Tag: health
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Transform Your Morning with Writing: A Simple Habit
A working professional traces one deceptively simple habit — a morning paragraph — from her grandmother’s island notebook to a career-changing daily practice.
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Embracing Chaos: How Disorder Fuels Professional Growth
Most professional environments are, at their core, temples to the illusion of control. We build processes, maintain calendars with fifteen-minute blocks, run retrospectives. And this is not wrong — structure is genuinely useful.
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Which languages do you speak — and how did that impact your life?
Growing up trilingual on a tropical island shaped how I think, negotiate, and connect — here’s what speaking multiple languages actually taught me about professional life.
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What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?
The advice no one gave me early enough — lessons from a tropical island upbringing, three continents of work, and the moments that changed everything.
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Rediscovering Play in a Work-Centric World
Rediscovering play as a working adult isn’t about regression—it’s about reconnecting with what makes us human. This article explores play from a professional’s perspective.
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Discovering Mindfulness in Madagascar’s Countryside
Discover inner peace in Madagascar’s quiet highlands, where rolling hills and red earth paths offer profound solitude away from city noise. A personal journey of self-discovery in rural Madagascar’s understated countryside.
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Finding Wellness in Global Work: My Personal Journey
You know that feeling when you finally do the one thing that makes you feel like yourself again? That exhale, that sense of “Yes, I’m okay”? That’s what this is about. Not performance. Not perfection. Just real alignment. Just showing up for the small things that actually work for you — consistently, patiently, mindfully
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Finding Flow: Lessons from Toamasina’s Community Work
On those magical moments when hours vanish—and why they matter more than we think.
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Discovering True Relaxation: Lessons from My Grandfather
A retiring UN official discovers the difference between managing stress and actually relaxing after 30 years in international diplomacy. Lessons from the Seychelles on finding peace.
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Discovering Adventure: My Tsingy de Bemaraha Experience
Last week at Tsingy de Bemaraha in Madagascar, I discovered something unexpected about myself. I actually enjoy being scared or was it the adventure that I enjoyed.