Most days, when I leave the office and take the train to the other side of the river, I see my fellow travelers carrying home brown paper bags, plastic bags emblazoned with Chinese characters, or the familiar rectangular cardboard boxes printed in red, white and green, the colors of Italian pride. Currently there is a food delivery company advertising its services — colorful ads are plastered all across the subway, with the tagline ‘How New York Eats’.

It makes perfect sense — why bother investing our precious time into the efforts of preparing a meal when we can have our favorite foods from any part of the world delivered right to our doorstep? Something with such little shelf-life — pun intended — to be devoured in just a few moments, seems completely ludicrous in a ‘city that never sleeps’, and so presumably also doesn’t have time to cook.

After all, the convenience of having everything just one click or phone call away is part of what enables us to accomplish more in our ever so busy day-to-day schedules — or at least that is what we are led to believe.

Jasmin RahimJuly 23, 2017Selfcare, Personal Growth, Nutrition, Mindfulness, Human Connection

QUIET STRENGTH | Who’s strong, really?

It was the day of starting my own integrative health consulting practice, and having my first client. I still remember the moment vividly, and if anybody who saw me that day said I was nervous, it would have been an understatement. As a matter of fact, I was deeply scared and finding all kinds of excuses why I could possibly cancel the appointment. I was confused - this is what I had wanted, this is what I had been studying for so long. This was the very reason why I was able to overcome my own health challenges, and to the disbelief of many had given up a seemingly prestigious career in the fashion industry. Yet there I was, trembling with fear - I felt like I had made a terrible mistake, that I was not capable of doing this type of work after all. This wasn’t about making a piece of garment more desirable using appealing words to hopefully target the right clientele. This was about someone’s health - which essentially is someone trusting you with their life. Including all their hopes and expectations to receive help with that thing that has been troubling them, affecting every aspect of their human experience - physical and emotional body, occupying their mental space with no exit sign in sight. I knew this feeling so very well, since not too long ago I had been sitting in the same chair, my own health being a far distant memory. The state of our health is the most precious, sensitive and vulnerable subject to be shared with someone.

Jasmin RahimMay 26, 2017Personal Growth, Mindfulness, Selfawareness, Resilience

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