by Florina Lungu | Apr 7, 2025 | Empowerment and Personal Health, Mental Health, Personal Growth
What We Miss When We Rush to Treat the Pain She walked into my office with a neat handbag and tired eyes. A retired nurse. Sixty-seven. Slender frame, hands clasped tightly in her lap. She didn’t want to be there. Not really. But the panic attacks had become...
by Florina Lungu | Mar 2, 2025 | Empowerment and Personal Health, Mental Health, Mindset, Personal Growth
I want to share a story with you. A story about airplanes, mental gardens, and how the smallest changes in your daily habits can transform your life. Imagine an airplane taking off from New York, bound for Los Angeles. The pilot adjusts the heading by just one degree...
by Florina Lungu | Feb 10, 2025 | Addiction, Mindset, Nutrition, Personal Growth
The smell of warm cinnamon rolls filled the kitchen. My friend Ana had been talking about her diet for weeks. “No more sugar,” she had said confidently. Yet, here she was, standing in front of the oven, eyes locked on the golden pastry. “I’ll just have one bite,” she...
by Florina Lungu | Jan 27, 2025 | Empowerment and Personal Health, Mental Health, Mind-Body Connection, Personal Growth
Have you ever wondered how many prescriptions are written, not for the person sitting across from us, but for the diagnosis they’ve been assigned? This question has been on my mind since a course I attended recently – a course that felt deeply personal to me,...
by Florina Lungu | Dec 30, 2024 | Empowerment and Personal Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Stress and PTSD
Ten years ago, I had a brush with mortality that changed the way I see life. I was in a car accident. My friend was driving her car on a highway in Romania. It was a rainy day, the kind where the world outside the window feels blurry and muted. We were heading to a...
by Florina Lungu | Dec 15, 2024 | Health and Wellbeing, Mindset, Nutrition, Personal Growth
The holiday season often feels like a whirlwind. We rush from one event to the next, checking off to-do lists and saying yes to every request—buying gifts, baking cookies, attending gatherings. Somewhere in the chaos, we forget about ourselves. By the time the...