There are moments that quietly divide a life into a before and an after. You rarely recognise them while they are happening. You notice them later, looking back, when it becomes clear that the woman who walked into that season is not the woman who walked out of it. The past months have been one of those moments for me. When I returned to Europe, I believed I was simply tying up loose ends. A few contracts to close, a few boxes to sort, a handful of conversations to finish bef

The previous cover of my book you saw this week was indeed an option. But we do not go back to options, just as we do not go back to who we once were. It served its time and space. This is the real book cover, and this is how it will be released. This is not a novel. It is drawn from my life, my memoir, my family history. But more than that, it is my perception of it, a reflection of a moment in time, not the whole of who I am. And the people in this book are not the same any

Photography by Anika Schett The Moments That Shape Us Everyone of us has a story to tell and we sometimes tend to believe that story is not relevant for us nor others. That’s where we get it wrong, as each story is an accumulation of moments that do matter. Because in the subtlest moments we encounter key experiences that make or break us. In these moments we have a choice to make, either we listen in and follow our own guidance or we allow the external world to be our compas

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