Oksana Kathryn Maradyn

Naked Brain

Exploring the psychology of simply being a person

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What's in a Name

What's in a Name

I was flabbergasted how hard it was for me to simply make a choice based on what I wanted.

WritingOksana MaradynAugust 6, 2022mental health, career change, creative life, trying again, help, name change, legal name change, choices, living an authentic life, divorce, family, ancestral cords Comments

Shredding the Pounds

Shredding the Pounds

I gave myself the gift of my own time to catch up to myself, to simply see what happened, and to remove any physical reason to go-back.

WritingOksana MaradynNovember 14, 2021mental health, career change, creative life, trying again, home, house, clutter, papers, help Comments

Landing

Landing

Saying “no” has shifted from something that makes me a bad person to something that makes me a person.

Music, Writing, TheatreOksana MaradynDecember 22, 2019actor, actorslife, mental health, career change, creative life, trying again, starting over, saying no Comments

Starting Line

Starting Line

Now painfully aware of the pit of shame the performer in me had crawled into, I could choose life rather than the purgatory of wanting it.

Music, Writing, TheatreOksana MaradynOctober 22, 2019actor, actorslife, musical theatre, broadway, stage, singing, mental health, career change, creative life, trying again, starting over Comment