by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 20, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
For a long time, I thought life would become much better if I’d just accepted myself. Accept the good, the bad, and the everything in between. The whole damn thing. It sounded pretty profound and seemingly healing, but there has always been one big problem: It...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 20, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Sometimes it feels like life is breathing down my neck. Like time is slipping through my fingers. And there aren’t enough hours in the day. ‘Hurry up, you are wasting precious time, get on with it!’ Do you ever have those moments? FOMO, right? Well, what we rarely...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 19, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I don’t know. Sometimes when I coach, the only thing I seem to do is create an excuse for being happy. And that is not sometimes, to be honest. Why wouldn’t that be enough? Why do we need to put it in (buzz)words and attach it to goals and squash it into a system that...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 19, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I hear this over and over again, people saying “I wouldn’t want to be happy all the time.” The reasoning behind this popular conclusion is always the same: if I was happy all the time, it would become boring, and stale, and I’d get used to it. Which makes sense. It...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 19, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
After 54 years of Self-help books Therapy Training Coaching Medication Healing Exercising Writing Meditating Talking Trying Changing Or deliberately letting go, I can still not just sit still without doing anything. There is ALWAYS a purpose, an idea, a suggestion, or...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 15, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
One of the reasons I have pulled back a lot from social media, is my highly ingrained urge to be right. To have the right answers. To know what stuff means and tell people. To be the ultimate judge, the fact factory. To know it all. And to deeply believe that is true....
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