Pregnancy after miscarriage: How to deal with fear
When I found myself pregnant again after having suffered a miscarriage just a few months earlier, I was forced to face some very deep fears around loss and suffering. I still remember how in the midst of the 12 hours of contractions that proceeded the first miscarriage I asked my partner how we could ever […]
What if we stopped trying to make things happen?
In “The Surrender Experiment”, Michael A. Singer promotes the idea that instead of following one’s own preferences, one lets Life be in charge, and simply surrenders to whatever it asks us to do or puts on our path, whether we like it or not. The premise behind is that Life ultimately knows best what we need […]
What I learned from my miscarriages – Part 2
In July 2017, the ground was pulled under my feet when my embryo(s) got flushed down the toilet at 9.5 weeks of my first pregnancy. Apart from the excruciating physical suffering, it was a tremendous emotional shock, since it came completely out of the blue for me (us). Not even once had I considered the […]
Come Full Circle – Miscarriage Poem
You came to usAs an unexpected giftSecretly and silentlyYou installed yourself in my wombMaking yourself comfortableEven if just for a little whileDespite the writings on the wallI did not notice you were thereOr ratherI was not able to see the obviousEven though I suspected at timesBut it seemed impossible to my mindAnd as Goethe already […]
What I learned from my miscarriage – Part 1
Let’s get pregnancy loss out of the dark. It’s only when I experienced it myself, that I realized how common it is. What a weird world where we are supposed to hide the joy of our pregnancy for 3 months only to then hide the pain if we do indeed lose it. I say let’s […]
The Number 1 secret to better nutrition without changing anything you eat
Better nutrition without changing what you eat – sounds too good to be true, right? Here’s the thing: we are not what we eat, we are what we can digest and assimilate! In fact, you could be eating the healthiest meal in the world, if you are not in the optimal state of digestion and assimilation, you […]
Eating well is a form of self-respect
Tell me what you eat, and I tell you how much respect you have for yourself and for this planet (which is actually the same thing).So many people know (in theory) that sugar, artificial sweeteners and processed foods in general are not good for them. Yet they still keep on consuming those. My role as […]
The “Everything in moderation” excuse
Are you using “everything in moderation” as an excuse to not stand up for yourself?I cannot tell you how often I hear from clients that they do not want to go to extremes with their diet and lifestyle. That their ultimate goal is “everything in moderation”. As someone who has been obsessed with food quantity […]
Real Food on a Budget
While (at first sight) healthy food is often more expensive, it is not true that eating healthy is only affordable for high-income households. In fact, if we’d incorporate all the costs (and inconveniences) of developing and treating degenerative diseases caused by the long-term consumption of contaminated and/or processed food (including the “organic junk”), we would […]
Psychology of Cleansing
A cleanse is about so much more than just taking a couple of supplements, juices or a coffee enema – at least if you want it to be as effective as possible. Whatever you experience on a physical level, you also experience it on a mental and spiritual level. As a consequence, cleansing the body will […]
