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The Starting Point

Exploring how we live, work and relate in times of transition - where the personal meets the systemic and the visible meets the felt. Writing from the in-between, where the things I’m not supposed to say often become the most honest.

By Anna Branten

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In loving memory of a father and a world that no longer exists

I lost my words when my father’s heart stopped beating.

May 9 • Anna Branten

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I Have Never Understood Money

About what happens when we stop pretending that all contributions cost the same - and start counting in more currencies than money.

Feb 14 • Anna Branten

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Rhythm as protest – an invitation to 100 days of lived change

When understanding is no longer enough.

Jan 24 • Anna Branten

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For Those Who See What Others Don't Yet

Dec 14, 2025 • Anna Branten

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You are not meant to be whole

Dec 6, 2025 • Anna Branten

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I’m trying to understand. I don’t agree. But I’m beginning to see it.

Dec 21, 2025 • Anna Branten

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We were never individuals: On the group that disappeared

Sep 20, 2025 • Anna Branten

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A Slow Goodbye

Oct 7, 2025 • Anna Branten

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The collapse of communication

Nov 23, 2025 • Anna Branten

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The last function of being human

Why intuition might be what saves us and why we need to stop waiting for proof and start trusting what our collective body already knows.

Jan 17 • Anna Branten

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Why do we not do what we say we are going to do?

On the mechanics of change and responsibility and why decisions and consequences never meet.

Jan 13 • Anna Branten

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The immeasurable

What we know but cannot prove – and the cost of ignoring it.

Dec 27, 2025 • Anna Branten

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I’m trying to understand. I don’t agree. But I’m beginning to see it.

Why facts no longer work - on nervous systems, polarization, and the meeting that might heal.

Dec 21, 2025 • Anna Branten

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For Those Who See What Others Don't Yet

On the pathfinder, the sequence, and why you can't carry change alone.

Dec 14, 2025 • Anna Branten

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You are not meant to be whole

On the group that broke apart and how we might navigate the polycrisis in new ways. Part 3/3.

Dec 6, 2025 • Anna Branten

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The collapse of communication

On the words that stopped landing, the body that still knows, and the language that has yet to be named.

Nov 23, 2025 • Anna Branten

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