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Latest — Jan 1, 2025

Happy New Year!

Dear reader, May the year 2025 bring us all peace, calm and hope for the better future. Let this year be a year of steady foundations to build on. Wish us all to shine brighter, grow stronger and be true to ourselves. I hope this year will be full of

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Five French podcasts I recommend

I still remember the very first podcast episode I have ever listened to: it was How To Actually Learn A New Language With Benny Lewis of Fluent in 3 Months from the College Info Geek podcast released back in 2014. Amusingly, the way it started combines two things I enjoy

Book review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Full title: "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed" by Lori Gottlieb, published in 2019. A while ago my good university friend recommended that I read a book of a psychotherapist who shares stories about her clients and her own experience

Four books that helped me prepare to welcome my baby

When I was 7 months pregnant I took an online course dedicated for future moms by Alexandra Anykina. In my opinion, Alexandra is the most qualified and professional Russian-speaking author of such courses: focused on evidence-based medicine, child psychology and modern attachment theory. I found her both trustworthy, but also

Roman holidays

My family and I visited Rome for 60 hours at the end of August. This is how I remembered the trip a week after returning home. First of all, 60 hours is not nearly enough to see the whole of Rome. The city impresses you with its grandeur from the

Impossible list

Bucket lists are popular; almost everyone has one: either defined in the form of a written to-do list with an obvious deadline or in the form of a cloud of someday dreams. The Impossible List is something different. The first time I encountered an Impossible List was in Thomas Frank&

Purpose of the personal website

When I was a first year university student I used to have a Tumblr blog dedicated to study motivation and tips, or "studyblr" as they call it. I mostly reposted what resonated with me, and would occasionally write something personal and even shared one short "study with

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