Author name: Gabriela Manciulea

We’re taught to rise, stretch, transcend. What if “higher” is just distance from what’s unresolved? A reflection on depth, effort, and self-betrayal.

The vanilla life. You might think that’s all about lukewarm, nothing to write home about, mediocrity. That’s one angle. I looked at it from a different perspective: the flavor that’s been sold over and over again as the best, safest, ONLY option.

How it started and where it’s headed. The behind the scenes you don’t want to miss.

Is money really the answer?

I’m not writing about God. Let alone about religion. I am writing about my experience of finding my way. And the more I mature, the more I heal my distorted perceptions, the more I wipe clean my lens, the more I find God. Not God as abstract concept or theological proposition, but God as presence,

The difference between pushing through fear with willpower, and re-coding fear at the subconscious level so the nervous system no longer interprets the situation as danger.

The difference between successful people who feel empty and those who feel fulfilled isn’t what they have – it’s the internal programming that determines whether any achievement can ever satisfy their deepest need for peace.

An exploration about the other side of the attention economy

In a world where everyone’s trying to be seen, have we accidentally made not wanting to be seen the most seductive performance of all?