by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 30, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I’ve made a million decisions that will never be acknowledged. I held back, slowed down, and stopped completely. Didn’t write or speak the toxic words. Didn’t openly blame, didn’t publicly judge, and shut the whole thing down. Turned the other cheek. And then another...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 30, 2022 | English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Almost. What an incredibly versatile word. Powerful, exciting, and scary too! I almost got hit by a car. I almost drowned. I almost missed my plane. And not just that: it also captures disappointment. I almost made it to the top. I was almost asked to be the drummer...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 30, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
This is an almost unavoidable thing, as a coach, or a therapist. Since we’re in the human-connection business, there are all kinds of emotions involved, and everybody can start feeling particular things towards the other person. Everybody, so it can happen on both...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 29, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
This blog is inspired by a conversation I had this morning. It’s about what I’ll call ‘false humility’. You see it a lot in spiritual circles, and it’s this thing where people don’t take responsibility or credit for, or feel proud about, their part of the deal....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 29, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
This morning, when I was sitting in bed drinking my bulletproof coffee, I felt an unpleasant urge to move. There was an ominous pressure to start something, to work on something. To fucking DO something! As if I’m personally stopping the entire universe from...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 28, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
If everything is perfect as it is, why would I want to write about it all the time? What’s there to say about perfection? Well, good question. And: This gig, this life-thing, this unfathomable happening we often appreciate so little, is SO incredibly and ridiculously...
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