Magda's Blog

  • You know that old song that goes, “I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. Anxiety’s all around me, and so the feeling grows.” Okay, okay, I know it’s “love,” not anxiety, but as a human with eyes, ears, and a brain living in the USA in 2025, emotions aren’t exactly…

    Feel It in Your Body: How Awareness Helps You Tame Anxiety
  • There’s a lot wrong with the world right now. My head and heart alternate in what hurts – and that’s just from “first-world problems.” I don’t want to belittle anyone’s experience, including my own, but it’s good to keep perspective. I can’t solve anyone’s problems, but what I can do, is offer a technique that…

    Box breathing to help you relax
  • I read somewhere that it takes half the time a relationship lasted to truly “get over it.” What about friendships? Is there a timeframe when it stops hurting when a friend leaves you? It’s been five years since my best friend of then 28 years stopped talking to me. My heart hurts every time I…

    Friendship Breakups
  • Every day for the past month has started with a feeling of loss. I scroll through the news on my phone, and, inevitably, I see something that breaks my heart a little. When I wake up, I’m hopeful, thinking, there’s no way today can top yesterday. And then it does. Again and again and again.

    Morning Mourning
  • If the unexamined life is not worth living, then I think all set to reach my goal of 113. Sometimes I feel like maybe I should stop with all the questions already because I’m simply not that interesting. But I always surprise myself with what I learn in my self-examination. I guess Socrates was right…

    Maslow, Stress and Dandelions