It was the last day of this wonderful journey within me I’d just taken. I was more nervous than ever to turn back home, to what was supposed to be the old and familiar. After sharing ten days of complete silence with total strangers, this environment felt more familiar and safe than the one I knew before this. I could feel my feelings bubbling up as the time to go home neared. Everyone was eager to go home so it seemed, except for me. But this was the real test! This was going to be the actual practice … In real life. Continue reading
Category: Life with Love
Time for new year’s intentions, now what?
It’s January 2019!
Yes, that means December 2018 is over. Continue reading
Selfless, selfish or self-love?
Often enough people get labelled with either being selfish, selfless or loving their selves so much. And really nothing is ever good enough. I myself have been judged one too many times from being selfless to selfish, while all the while what I was really trying to figure out was self-love. Continue reading
I could never understand
The way you loved me I could never understand
I couldn’t understand, cause I didn’t know how to love myself Continue reading
Polish and truths
As I was in the midst of my yoga practice one evening, I observed the nailpolish on my fingernails which was long overdue. I always let this happen, I mean beautify my nails with some either pinkish of greenish nailpolish and just let it fade away. I already have really beautiful nails, but for some reason, I sometimes color my nails. Maybe just to brighten up myself or add some color to parts of my body. Continue reading
What will people say
I just came across this meme and thought about how sadly true this is. “What will people say…” Without even realizing it, this is often the first thing that comes to mind when we want to do something. Much too quickly we decide to think for everybody else. Continue reading
Het huwelijk, de compromis
Vandaag vieren mijn ouders hun 30-jarige huwelijk en deze dag vieren wij altijd samen met hun. Niet in het groot, alleen mijn zijn vijfen + twee. Voor ons als kinderen was hun trouwdag, een dag die wij niet persoonlijk hadden meegemaakt, maar toch willen wij deze dag elk jaar weer samen met hun herdenken. Continue reading
Over liefde en verwachtingen
Al geruime tijd zit ik te staren naar dat woordje liefde. Dat woordje waarop misschien wel iedereen er een eigen definitie voor weet te verzinnen. Continue reading
Collateral Beauty – 26 Januari 1967/2015/2017
26 Januari 2015, een dag die mij voor altijd bij zal blijven, omdat ik er op deze dag het grote nieuws te horen kreeg die ik totaal niet had verwacht. Continue reading
Wat te verwachten van een leven zonder kinderen
Terwijl ik lig te scrollen op facebook, zie ik allemaal pasgeboren babies oppoppen op mijn tijdlijn. Continue reading
Little big sister
“I can feel the baby moving mommy”, I said to my mother with absolute wonder in my eyes. “Yes, that’s a baby in there. You’re going to be little big sister.” Continue reading