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 | dec 7, 2022 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I posted a little video on decision-making. About how hard it is to make ‘the right choice’ when we always have to work with almost zero information and plenty of assumptions (because that’s the truth, plain and simple). How we have no clue about the connections...
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...
by Marnix Pauwels | nov 20, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Maybe my ambition was actually shame. It makes a lot of sense. How else can you achieve things that most people deem special and amazing and extraordinary, and hardly feel a fucking thing? Well… Shame can’t be compensated by achievement. The universally nagging...
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