Quiet Love
What does it really mean to be strong? For Petra Malm, it's not just about muscles, but about a strong heart, strong lungs and a strong mind — and that's exactly the whole she invites you to in the book Strong. Petra Malm is an elite trainer, lecturer and the first woman to be admitted to the Swedish…
Are you the kind of person who notices the mood in a room before anyone says a word? Who is completely exhausted by a day full of impressions, even if nothing ”happened”? Then you may be one of the approximately 30 percent of us who are highly sensitive — and Handbook for Highly Sensitive People is the book that puts into words…
Did you know that there is a single nerve in your body that affects everything from sleep and digestion to how you handle stress and get through a tough day? It's called the vagus nerve, and that's exactly what The Vagus Nerve is all about — the forgotten link between brain and body that determines whether you fall asleep…
Sometimes it's the unexpected phone call that brings us back home again — and that's exactly how Dear Aunt begins. Agnès is a film director, recently divorced and back in Paris with her teenage daughter, stuck in a kind of stagnant everyday life where she neither works nor sees others. Then a police commissioner calls and tells...
Sometimes all it takes is a delayed train and a stranger for life to take a new direction — and that's exactly the feeling that makes Aunties on the Train a book recommendation I want to share with you. Cina and Sollan are heading in the same direction but living completely different lives: the stressed-out principal...
Reading time: about 10 minutes · Soft Sunday – In Love It's easy to think that the world is only getting darker. The news feed is built to capture our attention, and nothing captures attention like danger. But if we lift our gaze from the headlines and take a longer perspective, a different picture emerges: a world that…
Sometimes something unexpected happens that stays in the heart for a long time afterwards. On my birthday, I received a greeting from my relatives that took my breath away — a beautifully and fun-made AI film, made with both emotion, creativity and love. I was so happy. The kind of joy that only comes when you feel…
I stumbled across the 3-6-9 rule the other day and thought about it for a while. Not because it's romantic — but because it's so honest. The idea is simple: relationships develop in three distinct phases, and the most important choices happen at the three-, six-, and nine-month marks. It's not a rule you follow slavishly, more of a way to understand...
Book Tips – A Little More Social Book Tips from Soft Sunday — the day of the soft, the nourishing, the human. A Little More Social Nicholas Epley · 2026 Psychology · Wellbeing · Connection I follow Angela Duckworth on LinkedIn. You know — the one who wrote Grit, the professor at Penn who researches perseverance and performance. I…
Soft Sunday · In Love July 2002. Ängsbacka kursgård in Värmland. The NoMind festival — a week every summer since 1997, deep in the Swedish forest, where about a thousand people gather to do something unusual: be completely human together. I was single. I was looking. And I had no idea what awaited. Before I…