The Gift-Wrapped No
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Witch in Progress
Stories for women who carry a lot and are trying not to disappear inside it.
I write about work, motherhood, caregiving, love, loss, money, creativity, starting over, getting things wrong, and the small moments that bring a person back into her own life. Some pieces are written. Some are recorded. None of them ask you to become a better version of yourself before you arrive.
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Return to Yourself
The room has gone quiet, and you are still answering everyone in your head. This is an essay, and an ordinary ritual, about getting your own attention back.
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I'm Viktoria.
I'm a writer, mother, caregiver, and a recovering expert in holding everything together. Witch in Progress started when I got very good at keeping life moving and much less sure I was still inside it.
So I started paying attention — to the coffee going cold while I answered everyone else, to the things women end up responsible for without ever agreeing to them, to ambition after forty and grief that behaves badly in supermarkets. I'm writing from inside the unfinished part. That's where most of us actually live.
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