by Kaisa Kapanen | Apr 14, 2023 | Personal Growth
Attending to your soul and spirit I have always felt that a person can either have wings, or roots. You are either rooted down like a stable tree, or your wings take you from place to place without the desire to settle down. I have recently began to understand the...
by Kaisa Kapanen | Feb 2, 2023 | Human experience, Personal Growth
Is it worth it? In the midst of difficulties, I often ask myself “is this worth it?” As if there is some kind of IT that will justify all the hardship and pain at the end. As if there is an end. When it’s hard I get angry and stomp my feet. This is...
by Kaisa Kapanen | Nov 27, 2022 | Joy & Happiness, Personal Growth, Spirituality
Don’t let your dreams ruin your life When someone says to an eternal dreamer like me that my dreams may be ruining my life, I sharpen. I turn the volume up and prepare to hear something utterly stupid. But in fact, to my surprise I didn’t hear something stupid....
by Kaisa Kapanen | Nov 11, 2022 | Personal Growth, Spirituality
Can I fulfill my higher purpose in a corporate job? For as long as I can remember, I have been rebelling against my corporate job. In my twenties I worked so hard to achieve it, and once I did, I realized I hated it. I felt stuck and fooled. As if somehow I had been...
by Kaisa Kapanen | Oct 10, 2022 | Personal Growth, Spirituality
What is left empty grace will fill One of my patterns is to fill my life so full that there is barely any time for space. I long for space, I long for freedom, yet I tend to fill my life so full with things (work, side-hustles, busyness, anything) so that I don’t have...
by Kaisa Kapanen | Apr 14, 2022 | Personal Growth
Are we failing or are we growing? Written in 2018, just after returning to Europe after living in the Philippines for 3 years. I must admit, during the past months I have felt like I have been failing instead of growing. Like I have given up on all that is important,...
