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For the Easter break, my best friend Aiym and I planned a trip to Barcelona. Although it's already been a couple of months since then, I want to keep these memories in my blog and share some photos with you. It was my very first trip without my
What's a bone marrow donation and why register? Bone marrow donation is done for the hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation . It is the transplantation of stem cells in order to replicate inside a patient and produce additional normal blood cells. It is most often performed for patients with certain
Photo by my husband, Eldar In the beginning of March my husband and I had a chance to attend a wheel throwing workshop in a cozy Alike studio in the Stara Praga neighbourhood of Warsaw. We rarely visit the right bank of the Vistula River, and Praga is a notorious
Full title: "The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months" by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, published in 2013. I kept seeing people online who shared that they successfully implemented the 12 Week Year as their primary time and
Photo by the author Full title: "The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness" by Morgan Housel, published in 2020. It was the last book I read in 2024, and it is an easy read on a difficult topic we face every day. Although the
Photo by Patrick Tomasso / Unsplash I do not consider myself a bookworm, but reading is a childhood habit that I would like to revive. I hope this page serves as a tracker and a motivation tool. Below is the list of books I am currently reading, the books I recently
Dear reader, May the year 2025 bring us all peace, calm and hope for the better future. Let this year be a year of steady foundations to build on. Wish us all to shine brighter, grow stronger and be true to ourselves. I hope this year will be full of
Photo by JOHN TOWNER / Unsplash I still remember the very first podcast episode I have ever listened to: it was How To Actually Learn A New Language With Benny Lewis of Fluent in 3 Months from the College Info Geek podcast released back in 2014. Amusingly, the way it started
Photo by the author Full title: " Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed" by Lori Gottlieb, published in 2019. A while ago my good university friend recommended that I read a book of a psychotherapist who shares stories about her clients
When I was 7 months pregnant I took an online course dedicated for future moms by Alexandra Anykina . In my opinion, Alexandra is the most qualified and professional Russian-speaking author of such courses: focused on evidence-based medicine, child psychology and modern attachment theory. I found her both trustworthy,
My family and I visited Rome for 60 hours at the end of August. This is how I remembered the trip a week after returning home. First of all, 60 hours is not nearly enough to see the whole of Rome. The city impresses you with its grandeur from the
I‘ve kept and updated this list in my Evernote notebook since around 2017, and although it's quite personal, I decided to post it here, to keep myself accountable and maybe inspire others to start something similar. So here it goes: Last 5 completed goals went with
When I was a first year university student I used to have a Tumblr blog dedicated to study motivation and tips, or "studyblr" as they call it. I mostly reposted what resonated with me, and would occasionally write something personal and even shared one short "study with