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Lately, I’ve noticed that my blog is changing. It’s moving away from school, daily routines, and what happens around me, and more toward what is happening inside me. Maybe it’s just a phase. Maybe it’s exactly what I need right now: a place where I can observe myself, where I can say out loud how I’m changing and how I’m trying to understand myself a little better. What has become clearer to me is that I am someone who needs security. I need stability, something to hold on to

Often, when I’m at school and then look at my dog, I notice an astonishing number of parallels to children, to relationships, to how we interact as human beings. It’s only in the past few years that I’ve really become aware of this. I remember, I must have been seventeen or eighteen when I happened to stumble upon Maja Nowak’s books The Woman Who Dances with Dogs and Wanja and the Wild Dogs .Her way of being with dogs, of seeing them, understanding them, and learning somethi

I’ve come to realize how much of my life revolves around human relationships, and that’s especially true for my sport, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). I’ve been training for a few years now, since around 2019/2020, and the deeper I dive into this world, the more questions arise for me. One of the central questions is: What does it mean to train as a woman* in a sport that is still dominated by men? How do I find and establish my place there? How do I get taken seriously in how I t