Ask Katya

Welcome to Ask Katya – I’m so glad you’re here.

This sacred corner of the internet invites you to connect with Katya and share your life’s questions as we navigate the human experience together.

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Katya will respond with reflections drawn from personal experience, intuition, and thoughtful research, offering a few wisdom gems along the way. Dive in, join the conversation, and let’s create a vibrant, supportive community. And don’t forget to explore other questions and spread some love and light with your reactions!





mukoma

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In the tradition of poems and essays riffing off, what is Africa to me, what is Russia to you? Mukoma

Dear Mukoma, your reflection sparks an intriguing thought as we observe the blending of races and cu...

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Joseph2200

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How long should one person be in a specific work place?

This is a good question as we observe the evolving nature of work! Like most things, there is not a...

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Anonymous

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How does navigate a toxic environment in family and doesn’t have the ability to move out at the moment?

It can often be the case that we are in a situation that we cannot exit from at the moment, especial...

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Anonymous

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How do you get to know what career path you should take when you’re capable of doing a number of things but somehow a master of none? And it’s not like it’s getting easier to find good work let alone work as a youth

This is a dilemma multi-potentialites face. It means rather than being skilled at one process, your...

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OP

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What have your learnt from loss and grief in your life and what can you teach those battling with grief following the loss of a loved one?

What I most resonate with about grief is as V.S Naipaul said in his essay The Strangeness of Grief -...

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port

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It's hard. It's really hard. The vision sold about having healthy families did not include a clear indication of the sheer magnitude of effort, time, energy, pain, stress loneliness involved. Oh the number of times the fantasy of quitting comes! But quit to where? To do what? Life has become so intricately intertwined with family and my concept of self is nothing if not fully in service to them. So much so that the void that comes without having them is too scary a thought to even entertain. What's left of me, and will I ever recover that?

I empathise with this! Modern post-industrialisation life has really strained family and the concept...

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