by Marnix Pauwels | sep 29, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
‘After a week the backing away stopped working!’ Yeah, I get that. I get that now. This disappointed or somewhat panicked comment came to me a couple of times this week, from both clients and readers, and I’ve realized that I overlooked something critical. While...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 28, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
This morning I thought about dying. I was sitting on the couch in my living room, petting the cats (we start the day like that, a comforting tribal event), and there it was, the question: ‘What if I’d die today?’ In a split second, I felt the thick pain of...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 26, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Here’s your friendly reminder. Back away. Don’t fight the voice in your head. Simply back away. Don’t pick up its frantic suggestions, its loud orders, its harsh remarks. Back away. Don’t engage with the panic, the doubts, the judgments, or the predictions. Back away....
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 26, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Yesterday I talked about how I’ve become aware of many processes and habits that were mostly invisible. I wrote about my struggle with envy, how that was once a big, smelly deal, but now starts to dissolve because I catch it the moment it arises, and directly...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 25, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
My neighbors are moving. We’ve lived next to each other for over 12 years, and the family of 5 (only since a couple of months) is outgrowing their Amsterdam apartment. So dad is packing the large Volvo, although most of the stuff has already been taken away by the...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 25, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Part of psychological therapy, or therapy in general, is to become aware of behavior that doesn’t suit you, trace it back to its source, and then change it or eradicate it. Something like that. I must say that I don’t even have one powerful example of that process in...
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