Energy. Longevity is energy. So how do you maintain it, gain it, enhance it, and harvest it to live your best life up until the end? Science has started to prove what we suspected for a long time: slowing down too much is your fast ticket to the grave.
Read MoreThis magazine is dedicated to the power that comes out of designing a space of belonging, to the energy that comes out of a creative life, to the mental health that can be nourished and maintained through living inventively, surrounded by things that matter and staying dedicated to only what you want to give a damn about.
Read MoreMarch is the sleep disorder awareness month. 25% of adults in North America are dissatisfied with their sleep and report that it one way or another their sleeping patterns hinder their day-to-day life. But this does not have to be so.
Read MorePerhaps, my home, you’ll read me once, the way I read you
Read MorePerhaps some may call it egotistical. Some do call it healing. Shape the world the way you want it, and don't let it mould you out of your shape. We all want to master this and feel special.
Read MoreWhat a year for the Land Of Dochia magazine! Launched at the end of 2022 We’ve featured current and relevant articles on lifestyle, wellbeing, the joy of living, and how to do it all through creativity and design. Catch up on all the latest issues HERE, and we’re looking forward to having you subscribed and hooked in 2024! Catch up on all the latest issues HERE
Read MoreIntangible, fluid, still under the sun, torrential at times, water is the make of our minds, the power that drives our spirit. When we feel something, it often comes in fluid form, liquifying thoughts along the way, building up waves of emotion, pushing forward into each crevice of the mind.
Read MoreThe latest issue of the Land of Dochia Magazine is out now! Check out our featured article on mental health, behind-the-scenes Design, and more!
Read MoreEthereal, I lift from the ground up, my parts loosening up, floating away, like off a spaceship out in the universe, as I spread myself thin in the air of my home. I land on familiar surfaces that hold me gently. My fingers on the paint of the walls, my foot slightly touching, my mind, decomposed, recomposed skimmed out thin like jam on hardwood floors, for others to step onto, and as I learn their knowledge, my mind hardens and reshapes itself above, gulping down everything and spitting it out again. Making and remaking myself every day.
Read MoreA smile in the corner of a mouth, the breath of wind whisperer of secretes from lands afar, the orchid of one's childhood, the golden proportions of an Italian villa perched among tall poplars on soft abundant hills, the sound of resonating music in a sun-filled Sunday afternoon alleyway with it's many open windows and scents of dinners and your new shoes on the pavement as you pass fast, toward your own home, your expectation, excitement, hunger for another day, a new day, filled with all the beauties in the world.
Read MoreI've often wondered what true passion is. As a teenager, I believed it was love. As an adult, I believe it is a carrier. Later on, a hobby. It is all and none of these.
Read More"If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity
that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.” David Suzuki
Read MoreOpening the windows and allowing fresh air to come in periodically ensures the oxygenation of indoor air meets the higher demands of more people in the same space for a longer period of time.
Read MoreOf all the moments I pause and ponder over, the ones that tend to slide between my fingers like fish underwater are those of unrecognizable joy, abundantly flowing, unexplainably taking over my being.
Read MoreThe ease with which we move within our imagination is quickly dismissed when a good reality is cast upon us. Sometimes, we become content and relaxed at the expense of not seeing the next step that can take us even further. Vibing well is an awesome ride to catch upward, not something to bathe in like a stagnant pool after a summer's shower rain.
Read MoreDitch the packaging! Leave the plastic and cardboard food containers at the store, take the time to take the lettuce out of the box and leave the box.
Read MoreWinding up the hill in the fairytale of winter where forests filled with the chirp of sparrows line up the long, asphalted roads peppered with few cars and happy ski-goers heading for the slopes, the pure, unadulterated experience of nature only slightly adjusted by humanity, not enough to pollute but good enough to get us around. This was then; a generation or two ago.
Read More📌 Watch out for our upcoming Land of DOCHIA virtual magazine - 1st online edition set to soft-launch on ISSUU this December ✨Everything starts with art and creativity!
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20 20 hindsight is the sought-after medicine of the uncertain soul, and it is the power that drives us all further. The past, however, can be both mesmerizing and entrapment.
The pride that comes with it is what informs the actions of our future, and the lessons of our mistakes help us navigate new conundrums.
Read MoreIt was an October morning when I woke up and wondered how I want to spend my life. Maybe it was the gloominess of that particular morning that pushed me to such thoughts. Maybe it was simply the time to think them.
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