One of my parenting resolves is to raise my child to be in touch with his emotions. This means letting him experience good and so-called bad emotions and giving him the emotional vocabulary to identify what he’s feeling. This is a challenge for me, since the little one is way more in touch with the full range of emotions than I am. A recent incident helped me to better understand what my little son might be feeling when he is having a full-blown tantrum.
Read moreCompassion - the secret to being productive when motherhood brings you to your knees
... while trying to kick myself in the butt only resulted in procrastination and further exhaustion.
Read moreJesper Juul - Being seen for who we are
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Being seen for who we really are is one of the ingredient for healthy self-esteem.
Read moreLetting daddy be dad - and not making him a version of mommy
Even though mommy knows best, there are perks to letting daddy be daddy. There are perks in stepping back from wanting to do everything ourself.
Read moreToo cool to care
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Who knew breastfeeding would be such a b!#@h.
Read moreSaying ‘no’ - yes, but consciously!
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Consciously saying ‘no’ - as opposed to just saying ‘no’ - has several benefits on a personal and organisational level.
Read more'Good enough' mom
Needing to prevent myself from child-proving my edges away.
Read moreMy Coaching Philosophy
I believe that when we get clear on our values, our wants, and our needs, we are able to take conscious choices and stand firm in our decisions and to clearly communicate what we want and what we stand for.
Read moreWhat I wish I had known before and during IVF treatment
These tipps would have made the IVF process less stressful for me. Maybe they'll be helpful to you.
Read moreSelf-imposed rules --- the rules we make up
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Growing up, we learn (or assume!) what behaviour is acceptable and what is not and we create rules around those learnings. As adults, with much better self-control, those rules may be too tight and may not serve us any longer, but rather hamper our development and restrict us from accessing our full capacity.
Read moreWhen you talk to people, you may realise that you’re not alone
How opening up about fertility treatment (IVF) deepened my friendships and de-stigmatized the experience.
Read moreOn "Should" and Its Side-Effects
Who do I really want to be? What do I really need? If you are grappling with those questions, you’re already a step ahead! Most of the time, we don’t even ask these questions and just operate on autopilot and unconscious “should” rules that we have made up based on societal expectations and/or parental upbringing and role-modelling.
Read moreEmotional Layer Cake with Jealous Filling and Righteous Coating
How realising that I am capable of petty jealousy and righteousness brought me a feeling of elation and may potentially whisk away relationship problems that may not be any problems at all.
Read moreWhat It Takes to Stick Your Neck Out
Don’t shy away from what you want, from opportunities, from challenges.
What holds us back holds the lure of keeping us in our comfort zone. The comfort zone is to us what the cave is to the cave man: safety. In the cave, the cave man is safe from the rough elements and predators.
Read moreOn Seeing and Being Seen
Having someone witness who we are is extremely powerful. This is my personal discovery of just how powerful it can be.
Read moreMaybe Baby
How I came to embrace the wish to experience motherhood.
Read moreRunning Into Problems
... and standing with the face pressed against it, is usually not the winning strategy to finding a solution. Complex problems have no linear solution; creativity is required.
Read moreRunning Away From Emotions
... is a sure way to be chased by them. There are better ways to deal with them and to use the insights they contain.
Read moreInsomnia
Sometimes, sleepnessless does not need to be a curse.
Read moreYour Pathway to Bliss
Your pathway to bliss - is it following the four-lane highway of a predefined destination or is there another, unique, yet to be trodden path?
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