by Marnix Pauwels | dec 23, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I have no idea how those coaches and other pros do it. The promises. The tantalizing suggestions. ‘Your best life ever!’ ‘10K a month doing what you love, guaranteed!’ ‘Stop [stuff you want to quit] forever and discover your true power!’ ‘Have [stuff you really want...
by Marnix Pauwels | dec 22, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Today I talked to a really sweet and awesome person. There was no agenda, just a willingness to connect and share and become friends. I told her that after 7 or 8 years of coaching (and decades of brutal living), I still don’t know what it is that I do, and it...
by Marnix Pauwels | dec 22, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I like the idea of welcoming and accepting uncertainty. God, I really do! I also like the idea of being an extremely good guitarist, it’s just that I don’t want to practice for years and years to get to that level. Life IS uncertain, always and forever. Weaving all...
by Marnix Pauwels | dec 11, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
‘That must have been really painful and confusing’, the therapists used to say, when I showed the letters and told them about the phone calls. I just shrugged. ‘Nah, not really’, I answered consistently. And I thought that was a good sign. Strong, healthy, like I was...
by Marnix Pauwels | dec 7, 2022 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I posted a little video on decision-making. About how hard it is to make ‘the right choice’ when we always have to work with almost zero information and plenty of assumptions (because that’s the truth, plain and simple). How we have no clue about the connections...
by Marnix Pauwels | nov 30, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Typically Me
You don’t have to choose. It’s alright if you do. But you don’t have to. You don’t need to hold on to one view, one modality, one way of appreciating life and the many hardships along the line, and stick to it forever. I totally see that for some people I might have...
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