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Vitalia stayed in Kyiv from the first days of the war. She had travelled extensively across Ukraine before – knew every city, every street. And when the shelling began, every piece of news about another strike pulled her into memories: Mariupol, where she had been just before Christmas, Chernihiv, where she had celebrated her birthday,…

Olena is an interior designer from Bila Tserkva, and she stayed in Ukraine. When the war began, a thought came that wouldn’t leave: everything can disappear – belongings, people close to you, your home, everything that mattered. And in that uncertainty she turned to what had always been nearby.    When she walks – by…

Ira grew up in Crimea – the sea, steppe meadows, salty air. She has lived near Kyiv for a long time, and her forest (a few kilometres from home) became her main place of strength when the war began. A dog appeared in her life with the war. Before that she had never walked so…

Olena stayed in Kyiv with her son from the first days of the war. Her tourism business stopped, the money ran out, and for the first two years she couldn’t leave the city at all.     She began studying essential oils – first for her health, then she understood that conifer scents work on…

Olya plays the bandura and stayed in Kyiv from the beginning of the war. Before that, nature existed somewhere on the periphery of her life – beautiful, but not close, not felt as her own. Her bandura is made from willow. The instrument senses everything – it sounds different depending on what is happening inside…

Ira grew up in a village – a river, the earth, nature as the backdrop of everyday life. When the war began, she moved from Dnipro first to the west, then to Kyiv, then to Pushcha Kyiv Region. Only then did she understand that nature was never just a backdrop. It is the only thing…

Lyudmyla left Ukraine a month after the war began – first Bulgaria, then Belgium. Later came Madeira, and the island became a second home. In Belgium, medicine didn’t help. So she went into the forest and began gathering herbs – plantain, calendula, sage, birch buds. Things she had known since childhood and forgotten through years…

Valeria came to Belgium for two weeks. Four years have passed. She arrived ten days before the war began – just a trip, a light backpack, no plans to stay. When returning home became impossible, she decided she had to keep moving forward – and threw herself into everything at once: two universities, language courses,…

Olya stayed in Kyiv. She didn’t evacuate, and in the first days friends came to stay — some for a night, some for longer — and so they lived together for months: nine people in a two-room apartment, a dog, and a broken lift. She needed to find resources somewhere. She thought about what she…

Alona worked in film industry for years — casting director, twelve-hour shifts, phone calls at any hour. There was no rhythm, no ground beneath it. When the war began, everything stopped. And in that stillness, she noticed for the first time how a chestnut tree blooms. “IF YOUR INNER FOUNDATION IS STRONG — IT BENDS…