Navigating Work-Life Balance for Men: The European Experience
Work-life balance is a crucial aspect of modern life affecting overall well-being, job satisfaction, and personal happiness, enabling individuals to harmonize their professional responsibilities with personal life. In Europe, this balance varies significantly across countries due to cultural differences, economic structures, and social policies. For European men, achieving work-life balance can be particularly challenging […]
Olympic Games – a history of struggle, fighting adversity and pursuit of glory?
Exploring the meaning of the Olympics’ motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” – “Faster, Higher, Stronger” We are near the Olympic Games, the world’s biggest sports event that happens every four years that we often overlook, or we sometimes remember in passing when a favorite athlete competes in a sport we are passionate about. The […]
Empowered Femininity and Digital Spaces
“Empowered Femininity” and the Clock-Bomb of Digital Love From my own fieldwork, I can state that, when confronted with such anti-social behaviors, the first reflex is to shut the perpetrator off and to move on to the next candidate. It takes less than five such attempts to realize that the first case was not […]
What Is “Empowered Femininity”?
“Empowered femininity”: characteristics, trends, symbols There are hardly any examples of the “feminine woman” promoted by media in an empowering and liberating manner, transcending the fears and limitations imposed upon by the feminist discourse. Repeated waves of feminism have fundamentally corrupted its initial significance, constructed by such intellectuals as Simone de Beauvoir or Julia […]
Keeping Love Alive … Again
The Maintenance of Romantic Relationship Later in Life After major hardships in life, it often appears difficult to open oneself again to finding love – particularly when at least one previous romantic relationship has ended very badly. Nonetheless, engaging with the proactive pursuit of love and learning how to maintain healthy romantic interactions is […]
Enlightened Masculinity
The emergence of a new identification model as “enlightened masculinity” Apart from generational and cultural-geographical differences, the previous analysis reveals several levels of awareness in the process of developing a healthy sense of conceptualizing masculinity within the convulted framework of late-modern social reality. The three emergent prototypes of masculinity outlined previously give rise […]
The “Plain Jane” Label and Feminine Beauty
10 Principles for Exploring, Harnessing and Expanding Your Cosmic Beauty as a Woman While I strongly believe that feminism has brought liberation and empowerment for women and opened the gates for further development so that authentic equality of chances develops in all areas of life and everywhere in the world, there are a few dimensions […]
European Holistic Wellness
Embracing Holistic Wellness: A European Journey Through Traditional and Modern Practices, for Busy Individuals with Intensive Lives In our contemporary fast-paced world, the pursuit of holistic wellness has become more than just a trend; it is a fundamental aspect of leading a fulfilling life – increasingly turning into a way of life itself. While […]
Healthy Humanity, Reloaded
How To Be A Decent Human, Part 2 of 2 In the first part, I have written about the basics of what makes each of us human. In this continuation, I focus in greater depth on those dimensions of our humanity – as individuals and as a collective – which might help us continue to […]
The Good-Enough Partner
Ten Guidelines for Being a Good-Enough Partner It seems to be one of the major challenges in today’s world to attain perfection in everything someone does – including being a partner. But what about being simply “good-enough”, so that growth and commitment turn into a life-long process. The following ten guidelines might prove helpful […]