“I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.” -Erica Cook
dear girls, do not let anyone be your competition. do not get frustrated because she is prettier than you. do not feel bad about your body because she is skinnier than you. do not feel unpopular because she has so many friends. I repeat, do N O T let any other women be your competition. do not fall into that trap thinking that you will be happy once you are as pretty, skinny or popular as she is. do not make your happiness depend on goals like that, because there will always be someone with more money or friends, someone who is more successful or more beautiful than you. change your mindset: only because she’s successful, pretty or popular doesn’t mean that you can’t, too. if there is someone you envy, please do not hate on them or say nasty things about them. compliment them on what they’ve got. let us help each other instead of hating, bitching and talking behind each others backs. let us be kind, work together and empower each other
wander & wonder In these weeks on vacation in Gotland, we have been outdoors everyday, exploring new landscapes and wandering on new paths. and the more I spent time outdoors, the calmer I feel - it has something to do with the realization, that no matter what you do, the trees will still grow, the leaves will turn red and orange and eventuell fall down - only for new ones to grow the following spring. you are so insignificant - so don’t take your everyday problems too important. try to see the bigger picture - and let go of all negativity in your life. „To let go isn’t to forget, not to think about or ignore. it doesn’t leave feelings of anger, jealousy or regret. letting go is not winning and it is not losing. its not about pride and its not about how you appear, and its not about obsessing or dwelling on the past. Letting go is not blocking memories or thinking sad thoughts and doesn’t leave emptiness, hur or sadness. It is not giving in or giving up. letting go is not about loss and it is not defeat. to let go is to cherish memories and overcome and move on. it is having an open mind and confidence in the future. letting go is accepting. it is learning and experiencing and growing. to let go is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry and made you grow. it is about all that you have and all that you had and all that you will soon again. letting go is having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. letting go is growing up. it is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. to let go is to open a door and to clear a path, and to set you free …“ @leo_von_b #woods#forest#sweden#gotland#wisdom#quote#thoughts#life#lettinggo#outdoors#hiking#adventure#travel#wander#wonder#letsgetlost#hike (hier: Sweden)
"you have this one life. how do you want to spend it? apologising? regretting? questioning? hating yourself? dieting? running after people who don’t see you? be brave! believe in yourself! do what feels good! take risks! you have this one life - make yourself proud. yoga has changed my perspective on life, goals, relationships, my body, mind and health in a way I’ve never expected to. It’s my goal to help people to find that path to change, too. Thank you to all of you out there for inspiring & motivating me to dream and live bigger ❤️ @ellenfisher @hannah_mcneely @vanessa_prosser ❤️ @leo_von_b #gotland#yoga#yogagirl#sweden#travel#headstand#lake#bikini#inspire#earthtous#vegan#life#change#motivation (hier: Gotland)
DOWNWARD FACING DOG„if you practice yoga once a week, you will change your mind. if you practice yoga twice a week, you will change your body. if you practice yoga every day, you will change your life“
yoga isn’t as spectacular as instagram and other social media platforms make it seem quite often. yoga is not about touching the floor with your hands, standing upside down or doing the splits. it’s not about doing some kind of crazy workout - so no, you do not have to be bendy, to do yoga. you do not have to have crazy abs to do yoga. yoga is a practice to reunite body, mind and soul. with a steady practice not only your body is going to change, but also your mindset. @leo_von_b . . #yoga#yogagirl#nature#sweden#gotland#lake#downwardfacingdog#namaste#strala#soul#mind#body#fitness#health#vegan @veganbody_official (hier: Gotland)
wake up & go on adventures take big steps out of your comfort zone! if anyone would have told me that I’d be spending my summer in a place where it’s colder than it is at home, I’d have laughed at them. but that’s what we did this year, spent our summer in Sweden. and let me tell you, it was so beautiful. all this barely touched nature calmed me down so much - I am super glad to have stepped out of my comfort zone I urge you to try out new things once in a while
While on vacation on #Gotland, #Sweden, we visited one of the many little farms where they sell homegrown fruits and veggies. If you’re ever in Sweden, you’ve got to try this. Try to buy locally grown food, even if it’s not mangos and pineapples. Visit farmers markets and buy real food - every 30-40 days your skin replaces itself, just as your liver and other parts of your body. your body produces new cells from the food you put inside you. so you quite literally become what you eat, so chose wisely. Eating fruits and veggies all day is not only healthy. It is a form of self-respect. By controlling what you put inside you, you not only nourish your body but your soul as well. Get your priorities right and invest in your health, mind body and soul. #eatyourgreens @leo_von_b #healthyfood #body #vacation #food #foodporn #veggies #cleaneating #vegan #farmersmarket (hier: Gotland)
Exploring Doing and seeing new things everyday, noticing how stunning this earth can be. I cannot begin to express how extremely grateful I am to have this man in my life. He’s one of the biggest and most wonderful influences I’ve had in the shaping and making of the person I am and I’m so proud to be his. The fact that we can have these adventures together and live life side by side doing things we mutually love truly makes me feel so blessed ❤️ #nature#gotland#couple#kitsch#biking#cycling#explore#sweden#qualitytime#travel (hier: Gotland)
pizza timethe simple things in life, half vegan and half vegetarian mini pizza for @leo_von_b and myself #food#foodporn#vegan#vegetarian#pizza#vacation#sweden#gotland#grönsaker#qualitytime (hier: Gotland)
new adventures something I’ve learned along the way is that whatever lies ahead of you, sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine and not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best. #yoga#words#beach#gotland#sweden#vacation#inversion#handstand (hier: Gotland)
Take me back to the Vikings and Valkyries Armidale is Australia’s biggest Dark Ages reenacment event, in which there is no general public and it was my first ever strictly Viking / Dark Ages event.
A limestone cliff in a nature preserve on Gotland’s west coast, Hogklint. Christine Smallwood at The New York Times:
Ingmar Bergman moved to Faro [Gotland’s miniature neighbor island] in 1967. A photo of him was taken at Langhammars in 1976. Behind him, the sea stacks appear funereal and grim, far gloomier than they do in person. You may have seen the rauks in his films: they are the backdrop to Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson’s mutually infecting madness in “Persona.” Bergman is said to have enjoyed the solitude of living on Faro, but his films — for all their existential torment — are not really about solitude, or even loneliness. They are about the intense pressures and power struggles that are borne in extreme intimacies. His characters may desperately desire to get away from each other, but are not able to do so, any more than any of us can get away from ourselves.
The Gotland Summerhouse in Sweden by an architectural team of Jens Enflo and Morten Vedelsbøl with Enflo Arkitekter and DEVE Architects. Photography: Joachim Belaieff
