• Slow

    Slow

    They say complex trauma is bound to the past — though really, everything is bound to the past. Who you are, where you come from, how you’ve lived, how much you’ve endured, how much of yourself you’ve neglected along the way. And if it’s true that healing from trauma isn’t about returning to who you…

  • Unspun

    Unspun

    I’m torn between knitting, the urge to write, and, at the same time, an absolute need to do nothing at all. It’s been this way for over a year now. There was a stretch when just the thought of having to get up and go to work would send me into…

  • A loud mind in a small boat

    A loud mind in a small boat

    Everyone tells anxious people to slow down yet very few people ask what they find when they finally do

  • Healing the mind with wool

    Healing the mind with wool

    There was a time when I was waiting for a yarn delivery the way a child waits for Christmas. And writing this article felt a bit like trying to untangle a pile of threads in the dark. Somewhere during that period, I realized just how much space knitting had actually taken over in my life.…

  • The green, green grass of home…

    The green, green grass of home…

    There were moments when this water everywhere would sometimes terrify me. I remember the period when my anxiety was in a severe phase, and the cure – as some of you might know – for everything here is “ut på tur” or…

  • Mittens, Mittens

    Mittens, Mittens

    A few years ago, we were on a trip to Norway, it was around Christmas time and for the first time I saw people wearing these gorgeous sweaters and hand knitted mittens with different patterns, loose, and it felt like everyone was wearing them – in the city, along the pathways, in the mountains. I…