by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 1, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Okay. Let’s say you want to do things differently in 2021. Let’s say you want to change, a lot, or just a few things. Well, you can. You can get in shape again. You can find a truly fulfilling job, or the partner that doesn’t have to fix you or...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 1, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
What have you tried? What did you do to feel better, more worthy, at peace and in love? Where did you go, what did you buy, who did you talk or listen to? I guess I tried almost everything, and I -sometimes- still do. The restless mind wants to be scratched. It might...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 26, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
You don’t HAVE to feel good. Nor do you need to. Life has space for that. Space for not knowing, for doubts, for fear, for thinking that every day for the rest of your life will be as dark and bad as this one. Life is okay with that, it’s okay with you. Now of course...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 23, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Relationships, Spirituality
We always make the same mistake. There’s this huge and widespread misconception that knowing something will change our feelings about it, or our behavior. If we only knew which childhood event caused our adult anxiety, we could start living without fear. If we only...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 22, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
The counter on my cross-trainer read ’14:48’ minutes. I was ready to stop. I felt tired and bored and my body was aching. I had no real reasons to proceed any longer, it was certainly not a matter of life and death, and my motivation was completely gone. I slowed...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 27, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
I’m an expert. At least: that’s what the caption said when I appeared on national television, at 8 pm, during primetime news. ‘Marnix Pauwels, Addiction Expert and Coach.’ It was about one and a half year ago, and there was something going on with Apple and smartphone...
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