by Marnix Pauwels | dec 23, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Stoer zijn we. Sterk. En stoïcijns. We drukken 150 kilo, dragen baarden, en lopen rond in een volwassen lijf. Maar we zijn doodsbang voor tranen. Kwetsbaarheid? Hopeloosheid? Eerlijkheid? Dacht het niet! ‘Gedraag je toch eens als een vent!’ hoorden we vroeger. ‘Echte...
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 | nov 28, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
An addiction to admiration, attention, and appreciation. That’s a thing. I know, because I have it. It’s there, every single day. And it’s a very, very sad thing, not because it’s so superficial or habitual or weak, but because it’s all about obscuring a powerful,...
by Marnix Pauwels | nov 21, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
For a very long time, whenever people asked me how I was doing, I said ‘Not good.’ Most of the time that was actually correct. Many times it was not, not really. But it was how I looked at myself, how I regarded my life, my body, my future, my world. I just didn’t see...
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