Posts by Karolina

(MY story #3) At 32 weeks, I started bleeding and ended up in hospital for several days. It was the first time, as a mother, that I had been forced to stop. Physically, I was held in place. Mentally, I was anything but resting – my head was full of fears and anxiety, convinced that…

(MY story #2) Three sons under five. A foreign country. No family nearby. A husband constantly travelling for work. And me – a self-confessed control freak – self-diagnosis that came much later. That’s a perfect recipe for disaster. And that’s exactly what happened. My older sister has always been my role model. By that point…

(MY story #1) I remember this day vividly – especially that one moment. I’m standing in my old kitchen, staring at the to-do list for my son’s third birthday. The guests have arrived, children are running everywhere, the party is in full swing in the garden – and I’m standing in the kitchen, completely frozen.…

You’ve read the books. Done the courses. Built the strategies. And yet – here you are again, exhausted, wondering why nothing seems to stick. Here’s what no productivity guru will tell you: transformation doesn’t happen in the mind. It happens in the body. More specifically, it happens in your nervous system. “If your system is…

When most people think of burnout, they picture someone completely exhausted – running on empty, drowning in their to-do list, unable to slow down. And yes, that’s real. That’s what burnout looks like from the outside. But here’s what I’ve come to understand through my own journey and the work I do with women –…