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Let’s make it happen
Enjoy your life to the full by connecting and communicating honestly and efficiently, with yourself and with others! This for me means being aware of who you are, what your purpose is and taking responsibility for making it happen.
My intention in this blog is to share with you facts, ideas, thoughts gleaned from my experience as accredited motivational life-coach and NLP practitioner, as editor, writer, presenter, from the books I read, courses I take and reflections on my personal experiences in my professional and private life.
Each week will bring a new theme we can ponder on with view to living a vibrant, meaningful and fantastic life! I welcome all comments and exchanges.
#letsmakeithappen
Birthing a podcast!
So satisfying to move beyond your comfort zone and acquire new skills!
Be relentlessly yourself – a must read
I have just finished this beautiful, insightful book by Evelien van Es and would wish everyone to read it at some...
Positive mindset, stimulating our happy chemicals
In addition to the Anxiety Release MethodTM course, I enjoyed last week an inspiring webinar by Dr Loretta Breuning,...
Anxiety: the less talked-about cause of mental distress
“The prevalence of anxiety disorders across the world varies from 2.5 to 7 percent by country. Globally an estimated...
Connecting with self through the cello – finding core harmony
It could not have been a more perfect day for me to try out the “You, as instrument” workshop than this rainy autumnal...
Root to Rise
I Like yoga. It helps me connect with myself and the world around me, stretch out my frazzled mind and tense body, and...
Perfecting the pitch!
Exciting day for me last Friday as I tried a different pitch at the Global Woman Amsterdam monthly networking event....
The Power of being Seen
Usually, I write about “the Power of being Heard” since my company is dedicated to helping others, women entrepreneurs...
Who doesn’t want to shift mental blocks?
I believe in life, we need all the tool sets we can get, so yes, if I come across a book or a course which truly...
Insights
Passion & Purpose in Action
For me, life is a wonderful adventure to be lived fully, the ups and the downs, the exhilarating rushes forward and the agonizingly slow moments, embracing the periods of ecstatic happiness, as well as learning from the painful episodes, enjoying the funny and enduring the infuriating.
Let’s share thoughts and insights as we make sense of it, inspiring, supporting and motivating each other along the way.
Add to the grain of salt of a 50+ free spirit pondering on life: the good and the bad, the past and the present (while trying to live in the moment), love and marriage (or not), children, upbringing, career, the vagaries of life as expat partner and the quintessential search for our purpose, and all that lies in between.
#rise&shine
Featured on Ellen’s choices
Hear my anecdote on Ellen's Choices podcast.
The importance of celebrating the small victories!
Yes! I am 52, my partner is an avid kite-surfer and though I found it looked so tempting to be riding the waves...
Cold shower anyone?
Less anxiety and more vitality thanks to a daily cold shower
Dare to Detox
Dare to Detox! I did, and it was the best decision I have made in a while. Why did I do it? I was progressively...
Business: What’s Buddhism got to do with it?
I was looking for an inspirational speaker for the monthly networking event of the Women's Business Initiative...
Passion and Purpose, from civil servant to NLP trainer, coach and author: Joan’s Story
February 13th 2017 saw an enthusiastic group of civil servants, NLP practitioners , managers, friends and interested...
Partner for life????
With all the soul searching I have been undergoing resulting in my recent decision to seperate from my loving husband...
Introduction
Daunting!!! Once upon a time... I wanted to write a book, but am finding it overwhelming whereas a blog is a good...
Flashback: Julie goes Gorilla trecking: every cloud has a silver lining
February 2003: Impossible to leave our three year posting in Uganda without tracking the Gorillas: so here we are. By...