I don't know about you, but for us, summer is sticking to the rules of the season - it's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! It was so hot at times that I was really happy about the few cool days. As my son was ill and I was tied to the house, I used the time to sort through my books, which I've been collecting for 20 years now. And although I always preach to my children about the difference between consuming and investing, I quickly become weak when it comes to books. So I wanted to let go of tonnes of writing.

A simple tidy-up has turned into a real process of self-awareness. Books are companions that accompany us through certain phases of our lives. They remind us of these phases of life. Sometimes you feel like you did back then when you pick up the book. In other words, I have not only given books away, but also said goodbye to times that are gone for good. With many books, I was tempted to keep them, but a quiet voice inside me said "You know very well that it's not about the book. You're holding on to the past." Yes, I'm holding on, that's why I've been putting off this tidy-up for so long, I don't want it all to be over.

For example, there are the Russian classics, some of them in the original, which my father brought me back from Russia on his business trips. I can still read them, but no longer understand them; I studied Russian as a second subject and then never spoke it again. Books from the time when I thought I would spend my life as a freelance journalist after I realised that the "employee gene" was not stored in my DNA. There are books that a young woman buys in the hope that they will give her answers, and well, not all of them are particularly intelligent, but they remind me of the flat share I lived in at the time. Books from that intense time when I met my husband and that encounter turned my life upside down. Countless books about children, bringing up children, children's illnesses, children's madness, nursery rhymes, children's handicrafts, children, children, children. That was the hardest. This incredible time, the intensity of which cannot be compared to anything else. Books that accompanied me through my difficult crisis. Books that accompanied my professional reorientation. Books that I read on this or that holiday, on this or that trip, whose energy I immediately feel again when I pick up the book.

To summarise - it hurt. It took longer than I would have thought. And it was urgently needed. We lose our agility, our vitality, when we carry too much with us. Now I don't mean books, but what they stand for - our past. Those who hold on to things quickly grow old. Life is in constant motion and will remain so until our last breath. We are well advised to move through it with the ease and flexibility of a cat. How often do you hear people sigh dreamily, "I've arrived now." I always think to myself, wait and see, you'll be surprised. Life is not there to arrive. One moment flows into the next without stopping. Whether you're doing really well or really badly, one thing is certain - the next moment is already moving towards you and nobody knows what's in it. Be open and keep moving. Don't say "today is not such a good day". Instead, say "this moment is hard to bear, I can't wait to see what the next one brings." Don't condemn the whole day, life is new every moment.

Why am I writing this here? Because it has a lot to do with Chi instead of Botox. Which woman immediately makes you think of her age? That's right. A woman who is obviously trying to freeze her age with Botox & Co. Ageing has a lot to do with the art of letting go. People who freeze their faces hold on tight, remain in resistance and thus prevent their own life flow. Chi instead of Botox embraces and nurtures what is. It is a loving and life-affirming approach that supports the flow of natural forces in the body and face. Those who use Chi instead of Botox do not look frozen, but alive, fresh and open. Your life forces begin to flow in such a way that your face may well look more alive than it did when you were 20. Chi instead of Botox don't try to stop time. No matter how beautiful it may be, it is not in our power to stop time. But it is very much in our hands how intensely we allow life energy to flow through us. If it were simply a matter of looking young being beautiful, Botox would be the perfect solution. But it is not. Because beauty is about radiating vitality and vigour - we constantly confuse these two terms with youthfulness.

I would also like to say how pleased I am that the Chi instead of Botox community is growing. Through the Online course I manage to reach more women who walk this path with me and thus live a new way of facing ageing. Beautiful, not overstretched, fresh, not "my face from yesterday for all time", alive, not frozen. Chi instead of Botox!