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The proverbial bullet in coaching and therapy
A woman I work with had breakthrough after breakthrough in the past few weeks. She herself barely noticed, because she felt mostly sick – and floored. Listening to everything she told me about the past few weeks, I mainly saw progress. She had neglected her body a...
Are you in menopuberty?
Last week the same theme came up for three very different clients. Menopuberty. No, you can google all you like but you won't find anything. I made that word up. Women in their 50s. Successful on the outside. Whatever ‘success’ may be – a certain degree of ‘having it...
Frankly, I’m no good
About 75 percent of all women suffer from impostor syndrome. Feeling like you're just winging it, that you're not really qualified to do what you're doing, that you don't really have your act together, and sooner or later you’ll be exposed as a fraud . It may be...
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....
This is for the misfits
Many of my clients are misfits. Sometimes openly, sometimes secretly. Hardly any of them really like it. They are the first in the family to go to college. The first to have no children. The first who didn’t settle before her 30th, who broke off several relationships,...
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 day....
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...
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"Presence is what heals; love is what heals; the relationship is what heals."
-Karin Bosveld
