by Marnix Pauwels | feb 3, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
People always look for certainty and security. We just can’t help it. Or can we? A guy emailed me today to compliment me on the first book I wrote (which was published in 2015), but he also criticized me because of my pretty negative views on mainstream mental health...
by Marnix Pauwels | feb 2, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘Yeah, if only life was so simple!’, people often say to me. I hear it whenever I talk or write about spirituality and the human experience and other yummy abstract stuff like that. It’s like I’m criticized for my naivety, my lack of judgment and morality, or the...
by Marnix Pauwels | feb 2, 2021 | Awakening, English, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
For years I was totally convinced that being a (spiritual) coach was about liking every person in the world. I also believed that I should be able to help every single individual with every problem imaginable, all the time. Well, I can’t. Because as a coach, I...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 31, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘If only I knew why I am doing this, everything would be different!’ people often tell me. And it makes total sense, looking for the cause of a habit or unhelpful automated response in order to fix it, but it is also a HUGE misunderstanding. Knowing why...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 31, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
What is there to write about? As yesterday’s troubles fade away, we realize once more that we will never be truly frozen in time, in pain, in worry. Nothing lasts (which is both liberating and frustrating). As I finish telling my story of agony and insecurity, it has...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 14, 2021 | Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
In the coaching conversations I initially have, there’s one question that is universally asked: ‘What do I do?’ I tell people about being okay with not being okay, about the misunderstandings of the mind, about how we create the world we live in and...
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