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Today I want to talk about something that has changed my life and my work in ways I never could have imagined. Something that seems simple on the surface, but carries a healing power that reaches far beyond techniques or tools. I’ll also share a story from my own experience as a therapist, one that unfolded just recently and opened my eyes in a completely new way.

We live in a world that spins fast. There’s always something demanding our attention — messages to reply to, emotions to regulate, bills to pay, relationships to tend to, expectations to meet, tasks we feel behind on. And while the world spins fast outside, we often find the same spinning inside ourselves. Prayer can help to stop the inner spinning, and it's one of the most powerful tools to regulate the nervous system.

Almost everbody in this world has a wounded inner child and this does not necessarily mean that your parents did not treat you well. The reason why almost everybody has a more or less wounded inner child is that unconditional love does not exist in our world. A child almost always is confronted with conditions, for example: If I behave, my parents love me. If I misbehave, they will tell me off, and as a child I interpret this as a temporary lack of love. So love is tied to a condition and it's not the parent's fault, it's simply...

Childhood experiences can influence our choice of partners and the way we behave and feel in relationships. In this episode I will explain how to overcome past negative and limiting beliefs about family, marriage, love and emotional safety, in order to become self-loving, strong and independant, even when you are maybe feeling like you're slowly losing the ability to love yourself.

Gratitude is a feeling that can seem very hard to develop if you have been practicing negative thoughts over a longer period of time. Gratitude is the feeling of being thankful, and if your life is difficult and you are facing challenging circumstances or people who are hurtful towards you, then you will probably ask yourself: What on earth should I be thankful for? In this episode I explain the concept of gratitude, its benefits for your mental health and how to practice it effectively.

By consistently focusing your thoughts on the things you want, you are setting a powerful intention which can help you reach your goals. Positive thinking, gratitude and visualisation techniques are also an essential part of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). In this episode, I will be discussing different CBT methods that can help you live a more productive, peaceful and happy life.

Managing intense anxiety can require professional help, but it is also essential to develop certain coping skills yourself. In this episode, psychologist Anna Schmidt and I discuss practical tools for managing anxiety. These tools can help you to relieve anxiety symptoms as they arise and will also help you to prevent them from becoming more intense.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community will experience on a daily base that the world tries to define other people by its own standards. Cultivating self-acceptance and a strong sense of self-love is not only the best protection against a judgmental world, but also crucial for strengthening inclusion and compassion within our society. In this episode, my guest Chris and I talk about how to cultivate self-acceptance and how to learn to not rely on others to feel loved and included.

Internal boundaries are boundaries that we set within our mind, towards unhelpful, negative or limiting thoughts, beliefs, memories and interpretations. We set these boundaries through choosing the thoughts we want to think and by not allowing unhelpful thoughts to enter our mind and dictate our behaviour as well as the way we feel. In this episode I explain how to create internal boundaries and by dong this, develop more self-love and self-compassion.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most evidence-based interventions for treating depression. Feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and worthlessness, lack of motivation, guilt and shame are typical symptoms of a depression. In this episode I will present three CBT techniques that can help you identify the root cause of depression, which in most cases is automatic negative thoughts. I will explain how to question and transform these negative thougths, which will lead to an improvement of your mood and help you build confidence.