HOW TO STOP GRINDING YOURSELF DOWN BY METICULOUSLY ANALYSING WHAT YOU DON’T WANT, AND WHAT YOU CAN START DOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU DO WANT
During my “Discovery Calls” (the calls with those who want to start the BACK TO YOURSELF journey with me), I often talk with people who remind me a lot of myself a few years ago, when I was lost, looking…
Training to dream again
We sat across from each other, the room was silent. Not an embarrassed silence (there’s confidence and trust between us) but one of those when a client stops for a while to think, because she needs some time after your…
We don’t need help or we just struggle to ask?
Last year I spent a lot of time trying to understand and describe my typical customer: what does she do for a living? What does she need? What’s her biggest problem? How can I help her? I started with me,…
Look at your schedule! Are you doing whatever it takes to go wherever you want?
Have you ever played the ‚stick‘ game on the beach? It works a bit like this: run from a starting line and reach a pole (much lower than you) stuck in the sand once you have reached the pole, place…
Is HOME a physical place?
We talk about home and often that refers to a physical place. But is it really like that in the end? To me, I don’t know, at least not completely. There have been times when, between walls that were familiar…
The power of expectations
It’s June and even in Zürich we are enjoying some sunny days. It’s the beginning of the summer season and it’s what surprised me so much when I arrived here the first time. I was ready for the snow, the sledge and a…
Motherhood: between deep love and the risk of getting lost
People describe to me what it means to become a mother in many different ways, but I can surely say that when my time arrived I had no idea what would really happen to me. I wasn’t born with a…
From Tampa to London, passing through Chicago
I sat in front of my PC feeling excited about the Skype call I was waiting for, I would be interviewing Amelie. Ame (that’s what I’ve called her for years) is a college friend, we studied Law together and we…
What will you do with the next 365 days?
I’ve been face-to-face with 365 new days in the most adverse conditions: excited, overwhelmed, peaceful, scared or a mix of all these sensations. I dreamt eyes wide open, I thought about great changes and made plans, or at least I…
Did you dance before planning 2018?
It’s 2018, everyone is planning the new year and I’m stuck. I’m used to thinking about the year from September to July (doesn’t everyone who has school kids do this?) and I usually plan in August. But January brings along…
Journaling – entering “Narnia”
“Meet Journaling” Workshop 3 Febbraio dalle 9 alle 12 Zurigo-Enge La creatività non è qualcosa che appartiene solo agli artisti ma è qualcosa che fa parte di ognuno di noi. Siamo nati tutti con la stessa dose di creatività, poi…
Forever Expat?
If you look up the definition of Expat in different dictionaries you will find that the most common expression is: Expat, abbreviation for expatriate Expatriate, a person who lives outside his home country But at no time will these definitions…
THE STRUGGLE OF BEING MY TRUE SELF
This evening I was reading a post from a woman who taught me a lot. It was her first post for a while and I could see and feel her in every word, in every letter. It inspired me in…
BACK TO WORK AFTER 40s – 7 things I’ve learned
It was Saturday, late afternoon, I was running along the river. It was already dark and the air was warm, the winter cold I love so much still has to come. That week was a rollercoaster of emotions at work…
THE ROLLERCOASTER OF EXPAT FRIENDSHIPS
One day you wake up and it’s the morning of your new life, in a new place. When you decided to move the time flew by and suddenly, today you are already here and it seems like there wasn’t enough…
BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL KIDS
Four years ago we moved to Switzerland but I can remeber as it was yesterday the moment my daughter entered her new class for the first time, without being able to understand a word of what her teacher and her…
DISCOVER YOURSELF THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE’S DIVERSITY
I’ve always been instinctively attracted by who’s different from me. It always makes me smile when my mum tells how, as a child, I wandered alone among beach umbrellas making friends in a natural way with people of every age.…
WHO DECIDES WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE IN YOUR CAREER?
-Our beliefs are the vehicle that can take us far in life or hold us back- Oprah W. We all do it. Someone sitting at the desk during a break, someone during a meeting, someone while getting the house in…
WHAT TO DO BEFORE LEAVING – THE EXPAT JOURNEY
I still remember as it happened yesterday when my husband came back home telling me that he was contacted for a new job in Zürich. I’ve always hoped to experience living abroad, it was part of my idealistic future life,…
TAKE THE FIRST STEP: Prince Charming is not going to rescue you!
I’ve never been a girl with a passion for pink, make up and laces. Second-born, after a baby girl, I should have been called Michelangelo (yes I know, don’t say a word). I wore coloured clothes, I played always with…
FEMALE NETWORKING: WHY IT’S WORTH A TRY
I’ve always heard about Networking and I’ve always avoided it as if it was a bad illness. I’m an extrovert but I’ve never felt at ease with PR: I had labeled networking as a way to show off how cool you are and…
[:it]COSA HO IMPARATO DALLA CORSA – perchè per correre non bisogna essere magri, alti e strafighi[:en]WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM RUNNIG – Why you don’t have to be slim, athletic and supercool to go running[:]
[:it]E’ mattina e io ho sonno. La mattina più che l’oro per me ha il piombo in bocca, il mio corpo si muove lento e chiede tempo per risvegliarsi. Ma ho imparato a dargli fiducia perché so cosa succederà dopo.…
[:it]RIENTRO AL LAVORO – 6 PASSI PER SUPERARE LE PAURE E I DUBBI[:en]BACK TO WORK – 6 STEPS TO OVERCOME FEARS AND DOUBTS[:]
[:it] Perché tornare al lavoro ci spaventa e come superarlo Stai pensando di tornare a lavorare dopo una pausa o hai già iniziato a cercare un nuovo lavoro? Io l’ho fatto due anni fa. Mi aspettavo un periodo esaltante ma…
[:it]NON ESISTE LA SOLUZIONE, MA LA “TUA SOLUZIONE”[:en]THERE’S NO RIGHT SOLUTION: YOU CAN ONLY FIND YOUR WAY THOUGH IT[:]
[:it]Nell’ultimo anno ho letto una quantità abbondante di contenuti e mi sono resa conto che al posto di sentirmi ispirata, spesso, mi ritrovavo schiacciata o sopraffatta dalle 100 soluzioni che mi venivano proposte e che mi chiedevano sempre di essere,…
