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Know How You Cycle
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Everybody cycles in her own way. In this blog I share inspiration, more detailed information and parts of my own journey of living in a female body and embodying the feminine. To help you create more awareness on how you move through your seasons.
Menstrual Seasons 14 May 2025 The first time I read about the different seasons in a womens menstrual cycle I felt like all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. My love for nature, my passion for yin yoga and working the seasons according to TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and my admiration for the female body. Of course our female bodies cycle through seasons. Why had nobody ever told me that before? First things firstEverybody cycles in a […]
What is change? 27 June 2023 Our time in the Netherlands is coming to an end, and when I read that my dear friend @mirjam.christine.hope was hosting a session around change, I knew I had to be part of it. Change. It feels like my life at this moment is change only. Big changes only. Transitions in life. The one is me transitioning to being a mother, and with that a change in almost all relationships. The relationship with myself […]
She is Alive 2 February 2023 Half a year in.. It is with the greatest joy and gratitude that I would like to introduce our beautiful and courageous daughter Aya Rose. She came into this world on the 2nd of August at 17:38, roaring with life. Some of you might have read my previous blog, the one I wrote half a year after the stillbirth of our first baby, our son Jade. While I was writing that specific blog (which […]
Life Transitions 6 April 2022 I have been thinking a lot lately about life transitions. More specifically about navigating through life transitions. Those times in your life where your foundation is swept away. The major upheavals in life, where everything feels uncertain and change and uncertainty are the only constants in your daily life. Life transitions like a new job, stepping into a serious relationship, being confronted with death, divorce or break up or a move to a new home. […]
The Pains and Powers of baby loss 30 November 2021 When I was asked to write something for the fertility clinic in Cape Town about losing our baby Jade I felt an instant yes, and also an insecurity and vulnerability rising up. The journey of healing through stillbirth, as I like to call the journey, is not an easy one, and there are so many layers, so where do I start? The instant yes came from deep inside because I […]