Turning points in life don’t always arrive with drama. Sometimes they creep in quietly: One more task. One more “sure, I’ll handle it.” One more “I don’t want to let anyone down.” One tiny thing that tips the scales. Marta Sýkorová, author of Not So Fair Fairy Tales, knows this first-hand. For a long time she adapted to everyone around her, tried to please them and pushed herself to perform, until her life started crumbling in her hands. She decided to deal with it her own way. And she didn’t...

“Your body never lies,” we say at our weekend courses for women. Your body never lies, so if you keep brushing it off for a long time, it will come back to you one day, whether you like it or not. Your body never lies, so when you have stage fright, your heart pounds, whether you like it or not. But the body can be practised and trained, so that even stage fright stops being an enemy and becomes a buddy. I talked about the body and the courage to express yourself (not only with your voice and...