To the core
It has been a while since I wrote on the blog. I’ve been quiet lately, because I don’t have a…
Category: Psychology
Song of the day: O Solitude
This past year has forced most of us to spend more time at home and to meet with other people…
Festina lente
One of the “sayings of the week” that I learned in my Latin class way back was Festina lente. It…
Pacing myself
I have a tendency to dive all-in when I undertake something, especially something new. When it’s learning about a new-to-me…
Healing the superego
Healing the what? The superego. It’s a term coined by Freud back in the days. The superego is the ethical component of…
Spring fatigue
Don’t worry, I’m not tired of spring. It’s my favourite season! But I’m tired because of spring. It happens to…
Habits
As we all have been told time and time again when we were young and learning: practice makes perfect. Even…
Expressing your needs
We (or at least I) can learn a lot from cats. No words necessary! This is also what Freya did…
A Janus moment
Janus is the Roman god with two faces. He represents doorways, transitions, beginnings and endings. One of his faces looks…
Emotional diet
I have no idea if this is even a thing, but I have decided to do it anyway: go on…
Approval, please!
Guilty as charged. I care way too much about what other people think about me. I look for validation outside…
Reinventing my voice
I’ve been wanting to write this blog post for a while now. Until 2016, I was a practicing classical singer.…
Energy
Energy is a bit of a mystery to me. It’s elusive. Sometimes I have a lot of it, but most…
The cardinal sin
It’s one of the worst sins, if you believe the general public: being fat. But why? It’s a mystery to…
Draw a word
Last Tuesday I was going to meet RandomGwen here in Den Haag. Gwen is a fellow knitter and spinner, and…
INFJ
In the past years I have been looking for my “core”. With my broad range of interests, it has always…
Multipotentialite
Do you ever feel like you don’t fit into the specialization culture we have at the moment? That you have…
Introversion
Introversion is hot. In the last couple of years, multiple authors have written books about it, trying to get rid…