life lessons

1. You are here to spread love. What is love? Not judging others, not helping others. Love is invoking Spirit where needed. Be Spirit’s eyes and channel on earth and tell it where love is necessary. 2. Give your children and your friends and your family love, attention, joy and boundaries. Give it abundantly, and do not…

the school of life – new dates!

This fall there will be three opportunities to attend my class about succes at The School of Life Amsterdam. During this afternoon together we will explore our cultural myths about success and failure and start to form our own ideas about what a successful life looks like. More information and tickets here! “Try not to become…

mestival tonight

Posting is not in my daily routine and I always forget to mention if I’m speaking somewhere. So better late than never: tonight I’m giving two workshops at the Mestival in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. I think there are still tickets, or you can send me a message and I’ll see if I can sneak…

problems

I often post quotes to remind myself how much wisdom is going around, to keep my eyes and ears open for it. So many people have lived through all that we think we’re the first or only ones to experience. Truth is most of us will go through all the colors of the rainbow in…

french happiness

A surprise was waiting when I came back from France on friday ; my essay about imperfect love has been translated and published into the French Happinez. Apres l’infidelité… Read it here in Dutch.  

wild herbs

Spring feels like summer here in France. Swimming in the river, 28 degrees when the sun is out and picking the first wild harvest which will go on to november! My favorite wild herb is fennel. It grows all through winter  -though very small in the cold months – in front of our house. The fabulous…

princesses

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” Rainer Maria Rilke    

I am doing it!

Yes I am doing it! I cannot believe it! It took me years to come to this point. I went all around the world, the physical and the spiritual one, up and down in myself, through impossibly happy and impossibly sad times, through panic and fear and solitude to collect the experience, vision, understanding and…

to be privileged

This is a very sensitive subject which I’ve addressed before: being privileged. In all of my work I have been judged to be an over-privileged, white, skinny, rich mom. And you know what? I am. And it’s true : I don’t know what it’s like to be poor, to be hungry or to drag my new…

YSL

Thank you so much to those who attended my class yesterday ay The School of Life in Amsterdam. It was fantastic! For those who were not there, here’s a clip I shared. I watch it about once a month, just to remind myself that a successful life is all about :  the encounter with oneself. Watch it here.     

egg

Who layed this egg…?      

interview

A couple of weeks ago we filmed an interview for dutch npo docs with Chris Kijne. Looking back on All We Ever Wanted, the documentary I made five years ago, with these two super talented guys: Illustrator Daniel Roozendaal and tattoo artist Emiel Steenhuizen who were brave enough to tell their story on camera. Find out now if they…