Your desires are not selfish
Were you, like me, brought up to be modest? In that case, I’m sure you still feel modesty is a virtue. Especially when the world is on fire, innocent citizens leave home and hearth to flee enemy bombs, just after we’ve been held hostage by a pandemic for two years....Your key to sustainable change
In many women I work with, I see two seemingly opposing forces at work. On the one hand, they crash and burn in existing systems. Their longtime adaption has started taking its toll. They can’t take a breather. They are utterly depleted at the end of a working...You are probably more senior than you realize
Many of my clients suffer in their job, at their workplace. Because of the pace, because of the lack of humanity and care, because (this is a very common one) others manage their schedules and calendars. Numbers and targets trump quality and human connection. I have a...
Time to come out of the closet
Are you in the closet? Possibly. I myself, although I have already come out at least ten, or fifty or a hundred times, still partly am, you see. Which closet? The spiritual, I call it (for lack of a better word) On Sunday, the day on which I always do a reading for...Mindfulness or paracetamol?
When I was teaching mindfulness to professionals in social work and counseling a while ago, I got a question about acceptance. One of the students had woken up with a splitting headache that morning. She had prepared for the class, read the literature, and was very...Volg mij op
