People love heroes. The stories of overcoming obstacles and getting what you want are examples of others, inspiring and shaping our understanding of leadership. We all create our own pictures of our lives and our portraits of heroes, but we don’t always think about what true leaders not only gain. They give a lot without expecting to get something in return. The story of the creation of Creative Women Space – a hub for women – is the story of leaders who inspire many people to realize that the real cure for all disagreements is friendship and support. Today is Zhytomyr.Travel is asking Creative Women Space about that

Slava Svitova
I’m a very loving woman! I love to do what I want, to be where I want. Quarantine deprived me of my freedom in some sense because I became limited in space and time. I will not say that quarantine is easy, it would seem, so much time: you can read, take online courses, do self-education, sit down and write that book after all! But I can not. Every day, I literally make myself stick to the schedule and praise myself every time I manage to do something: cook soup or bacon, answer a few letters, translate. Anxiety is extremely high, I usually love to dream, and even here it is difficult to dream, the future is so hazy, so difficult to predict. With good, I learned to be in the moment of «here and now»: now I comb my hair, and my hair is fine, now I drink water, now I look in the window and see a magpie, on the window sill grows a cucumber, which my daughter planted the other day . It’s just growing itself! It has enough water and sun to grow. This little cucumber on the windowsill has become a symbol of life for me, though it may sound pathetic. After all, life, like happiness, comes from the little things.
And it is very good to be grateful for all the good that we have, and remember that it can always be worse. After all, we’re not all in the streets under the snow, but at home, with our loved ones, in the safety of our own little world. A big world nearby. How was it written on that famous David’s ring? «It will pass too». I know that when the quarantine is over, I will put on a dress, wear shoes of bright color, and in the cloud of my favorite perfumes I will go through the streets of the city, with a tattered hoard of flowers that I will buy for myself, because I miss the flowers so terribly. To support each other and our colleagues, friends and acquaintances, we launched a project called Creative Quarantine on the Creative Women Space page, and bloggers, psychologists, sexologists, travelers, activists, and artists live on weekdays to share lifehacks about how to live these stormy days. We want our playground for communication and mutual support to continue to live in times of self-isolation. «You are not alone» is the slogan of our creative quarantine. From the airwaves you will learn: how people in the late Middle Ages and early modern times experienced epidemics in cities, which is self-empathy, how to be a good friend to yourself, how to save yourself, how not to lose the sense of comfort and sexuality quarantined . Join in! Well, even though we left the 9B Mukhailivska Lane and closed the doors of the physical space, we can be friends on FB, there are always many interesting things on the Creative Women Space page. In addition, we are already preparing many interesting things. In addition, we are already preparing groceries for delivery at Creative Women Food and are working on our first book at Creative Women Publishing. So, hands folded we do not sit. Our slogan these days is: «Keep calm & be creative!»
Dasha Nepochatova
I like to be home. Quarantine showed how much I missed home and now and it is time to look at relationships with my home and its occupants. But I miss people a lot. I usually like to watch people sitting in a coffee shop. I miss their «lower» faces. I don’t like masked people. In the mask itself, I feel like in a hijab. I missed the different smells of people, the language of their bodies. Because I live in the heart of Kyiv, I try to walk a lot, but I walk the streets at a fast enough pace so that no one suspects me that I’m walking. I started streaming straight from my FB page. I do it every Tuesday. I have already had four streams. To me, this is a whole new experience and a partial answer to the question «What would you do if you were not afraid?» I’m very scared of both the camera and the live broadcast, but I do. I often feel sad, which I cannot explain with something specific, but I think that I am now experiencing a period of a certain internal transformation, which is why it is a little embarrassing and sad at the same time.
Oksana Borovets
As an introvert, social isolation is not too difficult for me. Modern communication channels allow you to keep in touch with family and friends, so I do not feel the lack of communication. Of course, intense emotional background affects performance. Although there is more free time, the usual working rhythm is not able to keep up. Information noise in social networks, personal experiences in the family and, of course, physical isolation are very influential. Although there are positives, hands have finally come to creativity. Every day I work on my IntroPhoto project, where interviews with artists are combined with portrait photography. You can get acquainted with the project at www.oksana borovets.com. I am also increasing my design expertise with the CASES online training course. And yet, to flip the news feed less, I read more and, of course, watch all the broadcasts of our Creative Quarantine.
Iryna Lisova
I am very sad and lonely in quarantine. I’m used to the active life, travel and frequent travel that you can read about in my #devochkanashare blog. For example, this fall and winter, I had trips to Germany, Finland, Greece and Serbia. I work freelance all my life, translate and write for different clients, so working from home is not a novelty for me. But because of the Kyiv subway stop, which was my main transport, I was locked in a gray residential area with high floors and detached from the usual landscapes of downtown Kyiv. Endless courses and operas Online – it doesn’t work for me. I am one of those who drowns sums in serials and books. I take quarantine with a share of fatalism and just wait for it to end, including a farcical ban on walking in the park. It seems to me very important now to share how much current events are emotionally difficult for us and not to be «positive» as you really don’t feel.
Olha Vasko
First of all, I try to think positively and use the time during quarantine in my favor. It is an opportunity to stay with your loved ones, spend more quality time with your children and husband. In everyday life this time is not always enough. It is an opportunity to pause and dream, to think of something new, something to upgrade in the future. There are currently plenty of online lessons, courses, and more to gain new knowledge and experience. Therefore, you should catch this time and turn it in your favor. I try to train myself to useful habits, so that after quarantine is out of shape and easy to move forward.
From the editorial board, everyone perceives the world differently and the conditions in which we find ourselves. We don’t have to be alike or think alike. However, there are things we should always remember: the power of support is unlimited!