Making room for the new

    For the first time in three and a half years, I feel like myself again, up and running, ready for more. It feels good. In the past year, …

The voices in our head

    I just woke up with a pounding heart. I don’t want to publish the article I wrote yesterday, was the first thing that crossed my mind. The next …

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

    With the vacation becoming a memory and things getting back to normal, stress levels are up again. Not steadily rising, but surging out of seemingly nowhere. I feel …

Have a marvelous Summer

    It is Summer time, school holidays have started almost two weeks ago and I am home with my daughter. Last week, I did not write an article and …

Raise your words

      We are story weavers, we all weave stories. Two weeks ago, I asked ‘What is your story?’ and I wrote about the stories we weave together and …

Metamorphosis

    The journey from caterpillar to butterfly is characterized by a radical transformation. In the in-between stage, the pupal stage, the caterpillar doesn’t gradually change into a butterfly. What …

What is your story?

      I was talking to a friend recently who is going through a lot of the things I went through. He is more and more becoming aware of …

Walking the tightrope with ease

    Last week, I wrote about what distracts me when I’m walking this tightrope called life, feelings of lack, mostly lack of time and how I counter that. This …

Regaining balance, creating time.

    Writing about balance was, as you may have figured, inspired by real-time events. I was feeling off. Now my ‘off’ isn’t what it used to be. My ‘off’ …

On being a tightrope walker

    This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I perceive balance to be. To me, balance is a sweet spot where I move through life easily, where …