the reason you shouldn’t seek to make your days more enjoyable
We all want a life full of perfectly enjoyable moments. But sometimes that is not what we get. I want to tie back to perfectionism and our need to control our every moment, though. When we don’t get that perfect…
why life is about seeking discussions and not answers?
We want certainty. When we walk through life without answers, we feel like we don’t have control over it. There is a general feeling of not only distrust in who we are and what we are doing, but in the…
how to accept the bittersweetness of life?
Just a little bit smaller. Why do things have to be a big deal and perfect 24/7?. This is what my therapist told me after me being confused about how things can be just a little bit away from perfect…
how to create bounce space to allow for mindfulness?
If you are human, you have probably experienced things not going according to plan. Meaning that every single person has had a moment in which things go a bit sideways. For many people (including me) this can cause an incredible…
how to embody your change and growth?
When we are growing, changing and, dare I say, evolving, we are going through a process in which we change our neural connections. We create new thought processes and we open up to new ideas and new versions of ourselves.…
how to be more flexible with your beliefs about yourself?
How we see ourselves is what defines us. Who we say to others that we are defines us as well. It is important to see what is the type of language that we use and what it actually means to…
how to grieve our past selves to flourish in spring?
Entering that space in the year of rebirth, where things start to grow around us, we need to notice how we are growing. After winter, after the death that comes metaphorically in which we learn about ourselves and we start…
how to trust yourself to welcome the mundane?
In our day to day lives, we encounter what it is to be human. Clearly, we are not a cow or a butterfly, right? We get to live our lives on this earth as human beings. And with that comes…
how to make peace with the fact that you are just one more human?
We think we are very important. And that is okay. It is what we grow to believe. We think everyone cares about what we do, and that everyone cares about who we are. When you grow up in a small…
instinct, intuition, inner voice: how to trust you can change your life?
The concept of willpower is what we believe that will take us where we want to be in life. We think we have goals and then that leads to results and in between that is hard work and willpower. While…