Thank You - this kind of feedback always is so valuable for me. As I'm not writing to make money, not to become famous, not to reach a wide audience - but hoping to write something which is meaningful and resonates with an unknown yet very real person reading somewhere out there.

And sure, my door is open for friends and strangers alike. To be honest, I do have a short, unwritten list of people who aren't that welcome - they are people who have repeatedly behaved in a disrespectful manner, or people who think that manipulation and negative pressure are valid ways of making others do what they'd like to see others doing. It is such people I simply don't have inner energy to deal with; my home is a lot about having a sphere of safety where I don't have to interact with such manipulate or disrespectful energies. But, by default, I suppose people who'd like to visit my place aren't disrespectful.

Oh well. On the broader scale, to me it seems that varying forms of anxiety and depression are rather common - at least in our Western culture (I haven't checked the recent international figures to see what is the global trend). And surprisingly often it still seems that the standard interpretation is that it is a question of personal weakness - that the problem is within the person and (s)he needs to be healed back to normal again. Not to deny that aspect, but I'd also ask if there are some features in our society, culture and tradition which contribute towards individuals falling depressed. What about merely focusing on those individuals we'd also see if we could use some cultural evolution to make the overall culture less toxic, in a way or another. But, sure, this is a big theme and in the coming weeks I'll probably write a blog post or two about this overall perspective.