A conversation about love with Dr. Ewa Woydyłło-Osiatyńska

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Kasia Mikolajczyk: We'll be talking today about love and addiction. This is the main theme of the second edition of Emigration Portraits.

Dr Ewa WoydyłłoLove is a very cheerful topic. Let's try to sweeten the autumn moments with it.

I came across the statement: „Falling in love is a state that resembles euphoria, addiction and strong attachment at the same time.”.

All of this can happen at once. However, let's remember that there are many kinds of love. They depend on temperament, on whether falling in love happened suddenly or grew from friendship; they also depend on age. A fifteen-year-old experiences love differently than a mature person. Sometimes hormones dominate, sometimes friendship, reason, or even calculation. Love is a whole spectrum of experiences, not a single phenomenon.

Why is it said that love can act like an addiction? It always involves attachment. Unless we're talking about a fleeting love...

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Portraits of Emigration No. 1(2)

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Kasia Mikolajczyk

Educated as a teacher. For several years she was involved in natural medicine combining TCM Dietetics, Tree Hand Reflexology and Aromatherapy - Elixirs to Health. She hosts the Radio Censorship programme „Warm Water Health Talks” inviting people involved in promoting healthy lifestyles. She co-hosts the programme „Before the coffee gets cold”, and conducts interviews. Under the auspices of RC, she organises meetings, workshops and charity events. She collaborated with „Nasza Gazeta”, describing the „Oil World”. She is the originator of the project on bilingualism for Poles living in Ireland „I have the power” organised by RC. Her mission in life, besides educating people to live healthy, is to promote activities for the Polish community in Ireland. Since 2025 she has been editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine „Portraits of Emigration”, for which she also writes articles and interviews. She returned to her teaching job, teaching in two Polish schools in Dublin. A lover of travel, the surrounding countryside, food, good music and film.

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Kasia
April 1, 2026 at 10:00 am

I invite you to read the conversation with Ms Ewa Woydyłło.

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