Warm Water

05/15/2025

I’m not a hundred-dollar bill to be liked by everyone. 💸
(I love this saying — it perfectly illustrates what is considered «likable» in our culture.)

Honestly, it took me about 30 years to truly be okay with the idea that not everyone is going to like me — or that to be liked, I don’t have to constantly please everyone.
By «totally» okay, I mean about 95.8% 😅
There’s still a fine line between “I want to please this person because I genuinely care about them” and the anxiety of losing the title of being nice, reliable, caring, interesting — and everything else I thought I had to be in order to finally love myself.

An important side of all the interactions in my life is how I want to look in my own eyes.

But now I understand that it’s not the interactions that define my self-image, but the other way around: how I see myself — how aligned I am with my own values — defines how I interact with people around me.

Because at the end of the day, everything comes down to the most precious relationship in my life: the one with myself. 💛

And sometimes, listening to your inner voice is easy — you don’t even think about it. 🌿

Other times, there’s a battle between «I want to» and «I have to,» and no matter how it ends, you end up feeling like a loser.

So what to do? 🤔
A few simple questions I sometimes😅 ask myself when making decisions about interacting with other people might help:
🍀Why would I really want to do this?
🍀Why wouldn’t I want to do this?
🍀 Is it comfortable for me time-wise and place-wise?
🍀Is it comfortable for me mentally and physically?
🍀 What do I gain if I decide to do it anyway?
🍀 What do I lose if I decide not to?
🍀 Do I truly want to do this?

And yes, sometimes I end up doing things I would rather not, with people I want to avoid, sacrificing my time and energy, just because I gain more than I lose in my personal value system.

Or I’d like to think so! 😄
And that is totally fine!

At the end of the day, I know I’m not here to be everyone’s favorite. Just to be my own favorite person in the world. 🌎💛

03/12/2025

https://youtu.be/_SvwRx5Wk7I
Hello, beautiful people 🥰
I'm coming with a new practice today: to connect to the present moment and let go of all the worries 🙃

Hope you will enjoy it!

✨ Mind-Body Practice to Stop Worrying About the Future ✨Feeling overwhelmed and stuck in overthinking? This gentle 15-minute practice will help you release t...

03/08/2025

Emotional support animal 🐾

1️⃣ Shifting Focus
✔ Taking care of a small animal keeps you in the present, whether you like it or not.
✖ But when she got sick or in trouble—that was extra stress.
2️⃣ Purpose
✔ I had no choice but to get up and show up every day. She depended on me.
✖ Sometimes it was exhausting, and I missed my personal space. But in the end, so worth it.
3️⃣ Walks
✔ Nature heals, but on bad days, going outside would have been impossible.
🙌 Especially during Canadian winters. But again, I had no choice.
4️⃣ Cuddles
✔ Holding a warm, happy, living being instantly soothes the nervous system.
🙌 Amen.
5️⃣ Unconditional Love & Emotional Bond
✔ Irvin doesn’t care if I’m stressed or if life feels messy.
✔ She’s just there—happy, loving, expecting nothing in return. Just food and cuddles!

✅ Does it need an official „emotional support animal”? Irvin is for me! It has some perks:
🐾 I don’t pay pet fee in my apartment building
🐾 theoretically I can bring her on a plane with me

✅How to make it official?
Tok to eligible therapist and they will write you a letter, were they confirm,that you need an emotional support ❤️

03/06/2025

New article 😃
Just so you don't ask, what somatic exercises are 😀

The word “somatic” is a new rising star in the world of wellness and self-improvement: somatic healing, somatic therapy, somatic experiencing, somatic yoga, somatic release, somatic meditation—everything seems to be getting a 'somatic' upgrade these days.

03/02/2025

I would say that it's my very first YouTube video because it feels like it, but it's not 😅
But I put a lot of thinking and work into it, and I very much hope that it will be useful 🙏

It's 25-minute calming and grounding somatic yoga practice, which will be helpful if you feel disconnected, anxious, or just too much in the air ☺️ Enjoy!

🌿 Feeling disconnected or unsettled? This 30-minute somatic yoga practice is designed to help you find a home within yourself, connecting to our planet. Thr...

03/02/2025

I always thought of myself as a plant—wherever you plant me, I will grow.

The idea of geographical freedom was very attractive. Being able to work while traveling the world in the winter, when the weather at home was not the best, felt like a dream. And I worked hard to organize my life in that way. When I was 22, I quit my last job as a teacher of the Polish language in a well-established school in my home city. I was literally crying when talking to my boss. First, I really loved our team and had great relationships with them. Second, I was terrified. No stable income anymore, and what if I failed to make a living from teaching on my own?

Well, it was scary, but I believed it was the right thing to do! And everything was just fine. That’s how my journey as a school owner began—but that’s a story for another time...

I always thought of myself as a plant—wherever you plant me, I will grow. The idea of geographical freedom was very attractive. Being able to work while traveling the world in the winter, when the weather at home was not the best, felt like a dream.

02/26/2025

My very first blog post in English😀 Don't be to harsh:

The humble beginning of my blog :)

02/26/2025

To create positive changes in life or to overcome some challenging transitions - we need to feel safe. The journey of building the platform of safety starts from the body 🧘‍♀️

02/26/2025

Today is the day 😊

For the past few months, I’ve been working on something very special to me, as it brings all my experiences and current journey together into one purpose.

As a lot of you already know, my life has changed tremendously in the past three years. The date is obvious - the day ruzz1a started a full-scale war in my country. And like in every tale, there is life BEFORE and AFTER.

My life AFTER was full of everything: pain, grief, isolation, anxiety, and loss, but also support, adventures, laughter, old and new connections, new places, release, and hope. Coming to Canada was quite a challenge—I would have never thought immigration was so difficult. When everything started coming into place, my personal life began falling apart. Let’s also add to it a need for a career change, so we can have a beautiful bouquet. 🙂

I was watching myself crying one day and putting everything together another day for quite a long time. But since day one, I also started seeking help. Probably intuitively, I knew that I needed to take care of my body first. So I decided to dive deeper into my favorite practice and did a yoga teacher training at . It helped me feel stronger, more connected, and more playful. But something was still missing.

And I found another course—the Women Somatic Integration Program at . That was and still is the place where I felt held and supported, like home. Forever grateful. I loved somatic exercises so much that I did somatic teacher training too, so I could implement them into my yoga lessons. Somewhere in the middle of all of it, I went to Vipassana (a silent meditation course), where actually the idea of Warm Water was born.

Warm Water is a project I’m starting to support women navigating big life changes. Through it I want to create a safe and nurturing space where women can find resilience, ease, and trust in their journey. Blanding togather movement, meditation, community, and more, my goal is to help others feel more at home within themselves, no matter where life takes them.
So here it is, a small beginning of a new story 🙂