You can only connect the dots when you look back. At the age of 19 I had an acid trip that forever changed the trajectory of my life....

I hated physical education in school. I sucked at every single ball sport, I sucked at track and field. I could not run fast. I was very...

This morning I woke up to the news of the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin -- a piece of news I had eagerly awaited. That a person who...

The Buddha said: I teach one thing, and one thing only: Suffering (dukkha) and the end of suffering. According to the Buddha desire and...

A little while ago I read about a study, where people from a few different countries were asked to make themselves happier. The people...

The Brahmaviharas, or the Four Immeasurables, are mind states, or feelings that we cultivate when we practice meditation. Here I will...

Like most people, I get The Pandemic Blues from time to time. I had it really bad around the holidays. I was resisting the way things...

I realized at the age of thirteen that I hated Christmas. Because it was bringing out the worst in me. Christmas for me was only about...

According to the Buddha, the first noble truth is Dukkha or suffering, un-satisfactoriness. Often mis-construed as Life is Suffering, but...

This won't be a linear story. Instead it will skip back and forth along the timeline, like an arthouse movie. Fast forward and go...

Will anyone care to read my autobiography? The story of somebody who is nobody in more ways than I care to list right now. I'll try not...

For as long as I can remember, I have been writing 'to-do'-lists. And a good day, in my mind, meant a 'productive' day. A day when 'I got...

I wasn't ready to admit that. Because I have a life long history of turning hurt to anger. It's always been easier for me somehow, to...

Was it when you where little and the sea scared you with its vastness? Or the thought of black holes at the outskirts of the universe...

If I was a space alien, with the same sensibilities as the human Victoria, and I was descending onto Planet Earth and used Instagram to...

As an already furious teenager who had just discovered feminism, and hence seeing sexism everywhere (quite likely also where there was...

When does someone's spiritual journey begin? At birth? At the time of the first big loss, however that manifests itself? As heartbreak,...

It was only last week I think, that it dawned on me, that things will never go back to how they were before. That this isn't some little...

Would we have this pandemic if we didn't treat animals like objects? If we didn't produce chicken breasts like we produce car parts?...

The company we keep is of utmost importance. The Buddha knew it and stressed it way back when. Many other wise women and men have known...