About me
I write from the middle of change — not from the other side of it.
My name is Svetlana. My mother called me Svetlanka. I was born in Leningrad - now St. Petersburg - and today I live between Copenhagen and Marbella.
I have lived in different languages, different countries, and different versions of myself. Some chosen. Some forced. Some only understood years later.
Professionally, I have spent many years in two very different but connected worlds: developing markets as a Regional Sales Manager, and later helping people navigate change as a career coach.
Worlds Within is not a coaching platform.
It is my personal journal.
I started it because I was tired of reading things written at women - advice dressed as empathy, transformation stories with tidy endings, and polished versions of becoming that left out the mess.
Here I write about identity, beauty, aging, health, illness, recovery, travel, family, easy food and the small moments that make us stop and think: something in me is changing.
My own life has had many chapters. I moved from the Soviet Union to Denmark. I went through divorce and raised my children largely on my own in a foreign country. I have lost people I loved.
I have gone through breast cancer, lost a breast, rebuilt my body, lost confidence, and found it again in fragments.
I don’t believe resilience is always heroic.
Sometimes it is making dinner. Sometimes it is laughing at the wrong moment. Sometimes it is putting on lipstick when you feel like a worm. Sometimes it is walking outside, writing one honest sentence, or admitting you do not know what comes next.
I write because the unfinished parts of life are often the most truthful.
If something in this feels familiar, you are welcome here.
S.
Worlds Within
Beautiful. Unfinished. You.
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