Happiness On Demand Hello Reader, Energy, the kind of energy our bodies and minds use for functioning, has been a topic I’ve been thinking about a lot since I was last depressed. I’ve even written about it on many occasions in my journal. Being depressed felt, to me, like having no energy at all. I was still eating quite normally and sleeping a lot, so it’s not like there wasn’t enough energy available. So the energy my mind and body needed must have kept leaking somewhere, right? That's what...

Happiness On Demand Hello Reader, Summer has finally arrived here in Finland, and I'm taking some time to slow down and enjoy the long, bright days (it’s been raining for two days straight as I’m writing this 😂). That also means the blog and newsletter will be a little quieter for the next two or three weeks. But I didn't want to disappear to a summer hideout without leaving you with something meaningful. Now that I’ve had time to slow down and actually enjoy the summer, I've found myself...

Happiness On Demand Hello Reader, I have always been emotionally avoidant. Avoiding meaningful connections. Avoiding relationships. I've always run away when things got even mildly "real". Lately, though, I’ve been feeling different. I would even go so far as to say that I’ve finally solved my issues around relationships (fingers crossed). Fortunately, I didn't need years of therapy to heal. I only needed 20 years of self-help. (It's a joke, because why would anyone choose the longer path......