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Therapy is no laughing matter. Of course, there are moments of humour, sometimes bittersweet, sometimes self-deprecating or black as the night. So when one of my colleagues elicited round after round of delighted peals of laughter from her clients, I became curious, and cornered her to find out more about this laughing therapy. In 2010, […]

The common thread of this year is stress and how you could deal with it. According to Chinese medicine, health is based on the 5 vital substances: breathing, liquids, nutrition, movement and rhythms. So, one of the ways to destress, is becoming (more) aware of the rhythms and surrender to them. Is surrender a scary […]

My last night in hospital, the idea of a healthblog was given to me. I still don’t know where it came from, so I see it as a present. A present that I am still unpacking for your benefit! Also the colours and the layout came through very clear: there should be poppies on the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It is August. Also called after summer. In Chinese medicine we call this period the element earth. The element earth is also active between two other elements for a few days. Those days are  ‘balance days’. Earth is the basis of existence so to say. Concepts that belong to the earth element are: moderation, balance, […]

In the last few months, we talked a lot about stress. One of many ways to bring down your stress level, is Body Stress Release. Want een lichaam dat vrij is van spanning, functioneert optimaal en is energiek. Body Stress Release is a complementary body oriented health technique that releases (deeply located) muscle tension and […]