paulina bolek

In April this year, it will be 15 years since I moved to the Netherlands. Language is still the biggest challenge I'm facing everyday. Even though I've tried many times (in formal and informal ways) to learn the language, I never managed to go beyond the basics. This means that I can live my simple everyday life in Dutch but the moment conversation shifts to more depth and complexity, I'm out... My son who's 8 now, speaks mostly Dutch to me, even though I've been consistently

The 2 biggest insights from yesterday's Queer Siblings Circle: - it's deeply healing to feel felt - I can feel myself better in connection with you There is only so much we can do alone. It's a lot, and it's necessary. But there's a limitation to it. I felt it deeply in my own life a few months back when it took one phone call with a dear friend during which I could reveal the most vulnerable bits of my heart, to cross the threshold of stuckness I was in. Up until that point

Earlier this year I felt it clearly: I was not able to continue my work without rooting it into something I could truly commit to. The...