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Blanka Privé · Writer · Teacher

Peace is the
new luxury.

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For a long time I thought strength was never stopping.

Then everything I’d built stopped holding me up.

Strength was never in the not stopping.

It was the pause.

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Most of my life, I measured myself by how much I could carry.

How fast. How far. How much I could do without ever needing anyone.

It worked… until it didn’t. My health went first, then the life I’d built around proving myself — more than once. What I do now, the writing and the teaching, began in the pause.

Read My Story
What I Believe

What I've come to believe.

You have to learn how to pause. And go within.

A life can look right and still not be yours.

We go with stairs. You cannot take an elevator.

We are not meant to suffer. But pain is the bridge that wakes you up.

I'M STILL LEARNING… To pause.
To let life move.
To let people grow.
To let moments change.
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The Memoir

I didn’t set out to write a book.
I set out to survive.

A memoir

Peaceful
Rock
Bottom

Blanka Privé
A memoir

I lost my health. My freedom. Almost myself.

What I found on the other side wasn't success. It was peace.

I can't tell you what your journey is. I can only tell you what I lived — and that there is always hope.

Peaceful Rock Bottom Blanka Privé

I lost my health. My freedom. Almost myself.

Somewhere between losing everything and building it back, more than once...  I started writing. Not to be read. Just to make sense of what was happening to me.

THE FIRST CHAPTER, WHEN IT’S READY
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"Thank you, this is very helpful... An emotion spike might just be that... it passes. Doesn't shape or reveal who we are underneath."

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"What I feel today may not be what I understand tomorrow... very thought-provoking, thank you!"

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"Exactly! Today knew as tomorrow already knows! Simply enjoy moment by moment and enjoy life!"

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Wherever you are, there's always a way through.

I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm sharing what I'm learning, as I learn it. Whoever's supposed to hear it will find it.

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