Finding Your Ease

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5 quick ways to feel at ease this Christmas Season

5 quick fixes to feel At Ease this Christmas Season

Christmas Season, woohoo, it’s finally here! To enjoy it even more, let me share 5 quick fixes to feel At Ease this Christmas Season! I, especially, love the start of this season. The excitement, the decoration, the baking and Christmas music. In our household, it all kicks off on Dec 1st. It’s all so nice …

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Don’t judge a book by its title – “Happy for No Reason”

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~ His Holiness the  Dalai Lama ~ I recently came across a book I would have never picked up myself due to its title “Happy for No Reason” by Marci Shimoff. As I mentioned in a previous blog (Happy life, the …

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S.T.O.P. practice

We all know those moments when we feel upset, pressured, overwhelmed or uncomfortable. Especially in such situations we tend to become disconnected to what is actually happening around us. Here comes a little awareness exercise I got to know during my mindfulness course. It may come in helpful to be be more “there”, in the present moment, …

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Enough…

A while ago I came across this article (https://freefromtoxic.com/2015/06/16/the-8-most-common-narc-sadistic-conversation-control-tactics/) and shared it on Facebook. And quite few came back and thanked me for sharing. It seems the article struck a chord with some people out there. The above link gives a great description of narcissistic behaviours and I won’t go into that any further. But what …

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Empathy – Sympathy?! And can empathy be learned?

We talk about being sympathetic and empathetic, but do we use them correctly and can we all be empathic? I wondered about this some time now and decided to dig a bit deeper. To understand this fine line let me give you some definitions I came across. Showing sympathy means we have feelings of sorrow, …

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ICT…

A rather interesting conversation, this weekend between my kids and their friends while walking outside: Kids: “We will have ICT* lessons and then we will work on computers, that will be fun.” Me: “Do you know what ICT stands for?” Kids: “Yes ipad, computer, telephone – I, C and T; we will use all three of them, how …

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Letting go of (summer holiday) expectations

Summer holidays are coming to an end and when talking about them I can’t help but review a little on how they went. I will start with my outcome from this summer experience, my lesson learned so to say: While I strongly do believe that is important to take time for yourself and your things …

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I want it all

Spending time with my family, friends, starting my business idea, regular blogging, finishing onlinue studies, sports, broaden my horizon and getting out of my comfort zone with new experiences, learning Japanese, exploring the city and country we recently moved to, really dedicate time to my kids one-to-one, keeping the house clean, organized and sorted, and some me-time. ” …

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The often underestimated the struggle of repatriation – moving back home

  Most of my friends and family know that I struggled and still struggle by being back “home”. At least back home in the country I was born and lived most my life. But as the saying goes “Home is where your heart is”, and even after 2.5 years my heart is not here. I am better, …

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The joy of digital pictures – or digital procrastination

It is such fun to just click away, make endless pictures and have loads to choose from, isn’t it? It is not so much fun though when it comes to de-cluttering, sorting or even worse trying to find specific pictures on the vast array of sheer endlessness. I constantly procrastinate – or perhaps I should just …

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Agree to Disagree

  Accept that another person can have different opinions, feelings or emotions. Don’t criticise or even demean someone else for thinking different. Desperately trying to change or to insult the other one won’t achieve anything – well, it might achieve that this person stands stronger and taller!