Agnieszka Wolczynska

Part I Beauty Industry Isn’t Going to Feed Itself. Are you beautiful enough? Your self-confidence isn’t going to make anybody any money. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You could help the beholder, you know. Be easier on the eye. You could fix just this one thing. You know what I’m talking about. That one thing you’re trying to hide in every angle of every picture. Why should you live your life hating that part of yourself? Because you’re worth it. Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s Maybelline?...

People often ask me what I do as an Ayurvedic Practitioner. The honest answer? I do not heal people. The wellness industry often sells healing as a protocol. This one miracle trick or supplement. A diet. A perfect routine. But after reversing multiple chronic illnesses myself, I learned something uncomfortable: The body does not heal simply because it was told to. I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Some may call me “a healer,” yet I cannot prescribe healing to anybody. I cannot inject you with...

Tomorrow, When the War Began was the first book I ever read in English after moving to Australia in 2005, at the age of eighteen—a haunting story that has been returning to my mind a lot these days. It tells of a life suddenly overturned, of invasion and aggression the characters never saw coming and were never prepared for. That story fell on fertile soil in my mind even back then. Because being Polish means having shrapnel in your genes. Do you believe in ancestral or intergenerational...