Category: Personal
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I needed a therapist. I got a personal trainer instead.
Ten years ago, I realised that I needed a therapist. Instead, I got a personal trainer. It was the best decision I ever made. I built a workout habit despite having every legitimate excuse not to. Here’s what actually works – and it has nothing to do with loving fitness. At that time, I was…
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I’m writing, just not online.
I know, my latest blog post is from April 2022. I am still writing, just not online. Someone in the audience asked Hanya Yanagihara what she would have done differently when working on her first book A Little Life (that took many years to finish). She replied that she would have asked for professional feedback on her…
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4 tips for interns and their supervisors
For many years, I have had the opportunity to supervise several ambitious young people during their internship in Brussels, in the field of European public affairs and communications. Showing them how to navigate the EU institutions, decipher Eurocrats and politicians jargon, and understand how to get your message across and through the EU bubble, has…
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What Angelina Jolie and I have in common
Angelina Jolie, Christina Applegate, Sharon Osbourn and I have in common that we all have the BRCA high-risk cancer gene. The American comedy-drama television series The Bold Type features Jane Sloan, a young woman in her 20s that is finding out about and coming to terms with her genetic heritage, undergoing a mastectomy and processing…
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How to make a relationship last
It is my longest relationship. I have had others, some for several years, a few months or just a weekend. I never promised I would stay, but I did, and it has been almost ten years now.
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How to Unblock Writer’s Block
For the last six months I haven’t written anything. During this thrilling, terrifying, exciting and nerve-wrecking journey I haven’t read any thought-provoking books nor have l listened to any mind-blowing podcasts or engaged in heated debates about inequality and injustice (as I used to). So I simply no longer knew what to write about. I…
Annica Ryng 