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As a Third Culture Kid, Sezin has literally lived all over the world since birth. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Lithuanian-American mother and Singhalese-Tamil father, Sezin then went on to live in Zambia, Thailand, Pakistan, India, California, Switzerland, France, Spain, Turkey and currently calls Prague, Czech Republic home.

A former human rights activist who worked as a freelance reporter at the UN's Geneva headquarters, Sezin has a special place in her heart for the indigenous peoples of the world whose lands are being stolen and whose rights are encroached upon daily.

A fluent Spanish speaker, Sezin has translated two academic studies from Spanish into English as well as having worked as a researcher in the Archives of the Indias in Seville, Spain.

Crochet aficionado, astrologer, painter, dancer, photographer and tattoo collector, Sezin has been writing since she was about four years old and has all the journals to prove it. A natural-born anthropologist, Sezin writes not only ethnographic accounts of all her journeys, both spiritual and worldwide, she also writes modern day fairy tales and scary stories that will curl your toes.

Easily obsessed, some of her current obsessions include making art on the back of free postcards, natural medicine, absinthe, art nouveau, taking photographs of energy, and admiring the view of the original 6th Century Prague settlement from her apartment window.

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Tips Developing compassion as a way of life for you and your children

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, "Genuine compassion is based on a clear acceptance or recognition that others, like oneself, want happiness and have the right to overcome suffering. On that basis one develops some kind of concern about the welfare of others." Compassion is the ability to see all fellow human beings as equal to us, with the same right to love and happiness. Developing compassion means understanding that negative emotions like hatred are, in effect, the denial of another person's right to happiness, and in the end prevents us from attaining complete happiness ourselves. Co...

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