What helps you cope when you're away from home, and especially with the realization that you don't know when you'll get back, if you will, if the house isn’t bombed – rituals. Eating, reading, habits you can implement in your new life.

I wake up every morning and have this constant daily mind circle: what am I doing in Canada – I can’t go home yet – I HAVE to adapt here. There's no other way out yet.

I used to make coffee in my house in a copper pot and go out into the garden, listen to the birds, watch the sunrise, now just in a pot but at least not in the hotel. I almost have my own personal space :-).

Coffee is an essential part of my morning ritual and it saves me.

Other daily rituals:

- Remembering and writing down dreams

- Writing down what I am grateful to the universe for

- Doing yoga or qigong

- Meditation

- Doing visualization or ancient Tibetan or Chinese practices.

🌜In the evening I write down the good things of the day (successes, what could have been better, good deeds, my pleasures) and meditate.

Most important to check from time to time – where are your thoughts and to be in moment. You can be a long time in the past or future instead of now. As soon as I find myself in my thoughts, I fix my attention on what I’m doing now.