Originally from faraway Siberia, where I had spent my whole childhood and adolescence, I had quite a normal childhood being active and spending a lot of time outside. As a kid I was quite social and extraverted, although my struggles finding friends have already started since I always felt slightly different; I was much more sensitive than other kids in my class and my neighborhood. It wasn’t until I started high school that I began to form genuine, warm friendships. Around that time, I started showing the first signs of depression. Over time, I became more withdrawn, began skipping classes and developed unhealthy habits as a form of escapism of reality and my feelings. Somehow, I did well on all my exams, and later my life brought me to Austria, where I had spent my early adulthood studying, working, travelling and navigating immigration alone. Although on paper it all sounds wonderful, figuring it all out on my own was a lonely and stressful journey for the first couple of years. Constant paperwork, different culture, inability to “blend - in” though my willingness to belong and find friends was very high - all of that brought me even more into depression and unhealthy lifestyle. Until one day on my way back home I almost started crying thinking I can’t do this anymore and realistically I have two paths: Asking for help or keeping my self-destructive lifestyle. Later that year I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 Disorder and started my healing journey changing my eating habits, doing more sports, cutting off alcohol and changing my mindset. And a year later, during another session of a doomscroll on Instagram, Universe showed me the video of Cat travelling on a train - and this is how it all began.