Johanna Ginstmark

Eliminate doubt

Do you know the feeling when you have a lot at stake, the road seems dim, and you know you have to take a leap of faith, but the fear of failure paralyzes you. So you go half in, you take a step forward but still hold on to that rail. This week I noticed […]

Oneness II

It’s absolutely amazing how The Bead Movement has changed my life. It’s a continuous transformation into becoming my best self. I initially thought it would be a fun thing to do, something that would hold me in check so I don’t forget to sincerely live every day of my life. It’s been that, but a […]

The right choice

I have had an amazingly productive week, and I have no idea whether it’s because of my three day juice cleanse, my 3 weeks of vacation or that I am in a better work mode. It might have something to do with us finally coming to an end of unpacking after the move, and that […]

Lean forward

I spent today at a golf club, it was my first day of my 2-days beginner’s golf training. We were trying to swing our clubs so the ball would fly high over a bunker and land perfectly on the green. Some shots were good and just as many were bad, until the instructor took a […]

Faith I

Our theme to guide us through July is ’Faith’; a word filled with meaning and a word we both have chosen to lead our lives by. Now is the time to find out what the word at this point actually means to us. Faith is absolutely linked to religion, but is it synonymous with it? […]

Grace II

There is something about the word grace that implies giving and sharing. Not only ’to grace with someone’s presence’, but in a wider sense like sharing and giving wholeheartedly to others. Most of all, to ’live with grace’ somehow speaks of sharing and a giving without a need to get anything back. I had a […]

Grace I

Last summer when we started The bead movement we wrote down words we wanted to guide us through our lives. Both me and Mhairi put the word Grace on our lists, but what does ’Grace’ actually mean? We have chosen Grace to be the theme of June, and during this month I want to investigate, […]

Stand II

This month’s word ‘Stand’ happened to be amazingly well suited for this week. I have pushed myself over the edge of my comfort zone professionally as well as personally. I have let go of the old belief that I need to take care of everything myself, and accepted that I want and need others to […]

Paris perspective

My boyfriend whisked me away to Paris this week for a looong lovely weekend away. There really isn’t anything better than to be swept off one’s feet to the capital of romance and love. Having a croissant for breakfast at a typical Parisian café while people watching, sipping on a glass of Champagne in the […]

No more playing small

I started off this week with a 2-day seminar out of town with the Entrepreneurship program Filmregion Stockholm Mälardalen runs. It was two intensive and invaluable days with a market strategist who opened my eyes to see my career from a new perspective. I became aware of limiting beliefs and how I, in some ways, […]