Compassion for Gaziantep
We must fight terrorism, but more bombs are only going to provoke more violence. Compassion might be the only way out. And yes, that’s hard.
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How we age
Through my work I witness daily how negative emotional energy can shackle us down. Most often it is our own emotional energy that gets stuck in our system and form blockages. But the negativity of other people can also influence us. Once, for example, a musician came to see me who had trouble playing her
Letting go BIG time
‘It’s good to shake up the system and make a new start,’ I wrote to a friend, explaining our BIG decision to leave Istanbul, my beloved home for 26 years, and move to Brussels. Today’s mantra says that change is good, and I believed it, but I can tell you that moving -this time- was
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Troubleshooting
I love my life as a writer, but there is another work I have given priority since I moved from Istanbul to Brussels: I am a mind-body troubleshooter. Inner (and sometimes outer) conflict is my business. What I do is often called energy psychology, but I strongly believe what a famous neuroscientist found after a
Finding release from conflict
If I had stayed with my first job in Turkey as the cultural attaché of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Istanbul, things might have turned out very differently, but I made the ‘faux pas’ of simultaneously publishing the odd article in a newspaper. Soon I was told I had to choose: diplomacy or journalism.
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