‘Live to the rhythm of love, without the ticking of time.’ This book is the debut of a young lady by the name of Laura Maaskant. I do know this book is published in Holland and in Germany as well, but I don’t know if there is an English version; if it is available in […]
Daily Archives: September 6, 2019
In the spotlight: Cortisol, the stress hormone
We already made a lot of blogs on stress. If you want to re-read them, they are in the archive under the header health. For this month, we thought it would be beneficial for you to put the stress hormone cortisol in the spotlight. So, cortisol is also called the stress hormone. Cortisol is created […]
Bernargie
Bernargie We were asked by a loyal reader of our blogs, to tell more about herbs. So, bernargie is this months herb. Because Bernargie is an ideal skin cleanser. And as you might have read, the organs of the metal element are the lungs and the large intestine, who both have an effect on the […]
My PTSD story
You think you have your life back on track after a divorce. A new home, a new job, a new start. And then, suddenly, your life turn upside down. It was June 2004, in the evening after a great week. The children had walked the evening four days and it was time for me to […]
What is brainspotting?
Brainspotting was discovered by David Grand in 2003. He was doing EMDR with a young girl, an ice-skater. She couln’t do a certain jump and they were processing on that. He was moving his finger across her visual field very slowly and as he obeserved her eyes, he saw a kind of wobble at a […]
Trauma
We talked a lot about stress these past few months and we also talked about what you can do to deminish stress in your life. We would now like to adress trauma, since stress can develop into trauma and trauma gives a whole lot of stress. Let’s start by stating that everybody has trauma’s. So, […]
Metal recipe
Since it is the fall, salads are now energetically too cold. Salads will cool down the body, whilst in this time of year, you should make a start with warm(er) foods. As we said in our blog on the metal element, which you will find under ‘related subjects’, food with the colour white, such as […]
Metal exercise
In this period of the year, the fall, we came up with an exercise that will energize both the lungs as the large intestine. So, a perfect exercise for this time of year, although you can do this exercise throughout the year. The exercise is called hara training. Hara is an energetic point in your […]
The five elements part 5
When we started this blog December 2018, we started telling about winter, the water element (bladder and kidneys). Then we proceeded with spring, the wood element (gallbladder and liver). Spring turned into summer, the fire element (heart and the small intestine). August was the aftersummer, the earth element (spleen and stomach). You will find these […]