Svenja
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I’m not like them …
I don’t chase the noise they make.Fake gold hearts and plastic fame.They talk loud just to feel alive,but I build my soul through darker nights. I stood tall when the rain came down,lost myself then I found my crown.Now I… Continue reading
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When survival becomes strength … and strength becomes a trap
I have sent this message to somebody who needed to hear it. And I thought many of us might benefit from hearing the same … No one hands out awards for the child who kept the house from falling apart.No… Continue reading
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The cage feels safe because you decorated it
1 How it all started2 The cost of learning to hide3 The problem is not your brain4 The core value distortion5 The day someone saw „Me“6 How values get borrowed7 The cage feels safe because you decorated it8 How adults… Continue reading
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Rabbit, spider … or something else?
Normally I publish the articles after having had a good thought through everything. More of less. In case needed, I research longer and then start writing … but for this one I thought I would change the rule. I will… Continue reading
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A very unnecessary collection of necessary things
If you are anything like me… you probably have 100,000 screenshots on your phone of things you didn’t want to forget. But of course you forget anyways .. they quietly disappear into the never-seen-again abyss of your camera roll… only… Continue reading
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Support should not be a privilege
I have been taking care of a little 6-year-old girl who is the most adorable little thing you could ever meet. Her mind is all over the place, she sometimes seems lost, but the most caring and loving little being.… Continue reading
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Bruce Lee – Resilience comes from who you really are inside … not what the world wants you to be
My colleague told me “I saw xxx in the bus yesterday. And all I could think of was “this is Svenja’s work”. What he meant by that is that the boy he was talking about made a 180 degree change… Continue reading
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When Survival Becomes Identity
She sat in front of me quietly and slid her diary across the table.“Read this,” she said and opened it to one specific page.The words were written in big, heavy letters: “Who would want a daughter like me?Who would want… Continue reading
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A diamond in the wrong hands is just a stone
He showed me something like an identity card with Korean writing and “Taekwondo black belt 1st Dan.” He told me that in Taekwondo they have something similar to kata, which is called poomsae. When he got his black belt decades… Continue reading
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The distorted mirror we grow up with
Transcription of the video: This is what you see when you look at them …disorder, chaotic, defiant,difficult, lazy, too much,distracted,strange, too sensitive,disconnected, talkative, too active,impulsive, intense, unpredictable,too loud, awkward= a problem to fix This is what I see when I… Continue reading
