When I was in my mid-twenties, I struggled with a severe depression. Everything was so dark and I felt so lonely and no one seemed to really understand. As it turns out I’m in pretty good company. Lady Di, Winston Churchill, Jim Carrey, Charles Dickens, Audrey Hepburn, all of them suffered from depression at some point. I also have a lot of company, according to the WHO (World Health Organization) almost one out of five people suffers from depression at some point in their live.

This weekend was the fourth weekend of my NLP training. It was a very interesting and enlightening weekend. A very emotional weekend too. We were working on re-imprinting memories that have affected us in a negative way. What can I say, I have few of those in my memory box. So, when working with this, I got kind of emotional. Ok, very emotional. Hate it when that happens, that means at least 2 days of red, puffy eyes 🙁 .

In March Lisa will turn 7. What she really, really, really wants for her birthday? A bunk bed! She’s been talking about it for months. I found a nice (and affordable) one at Ikea. Actually it’s a loft bed, but it thank goodness it did qualify. I think it were the pink doors that did the trick 🙂 . When I asked her if she would like to have this bed, she was so happy, she gave me a whoooooole lot of kisses.

A while ago I had a ‘sewing date’ with a friend of mine. She has been sewing for a long time and makes really cute stuff for her kids. She helped me pick a dress from a pattern book and showed me how to work with an actual pattern, because I had never done that before. All those lines just seemed so intimidating. And although it’s not that hard, you have to stay alert with all those lines, because it’s easy to miss something or mix things up.

Eureka, I’m a genius, the next Einstein! Ok, not so much, but it is an important reminder to me. Remember the ugly plain brown sweater I jazzed up a bit? Well, Lisa didn’t still didn’t want to wear it 🙁 . So I asked her, what if I put some more hearts here and here, will you wear it then? The answer was maybe, which is basically a no. Then Mr.

The legend goes that Ernest Hemingway made a bet that he could write a story of six words that would make people cry: For sale, baby shoes, never worn. It’s amazing how much 6 words can tell. War. Just cause? Or just ’cause? – Eric Gant* “Congratulations! Boy or girl” “…I’m overweight…” – Jakub Kopec* Family reunion; surrounded by relative strangers. – Shag* Of course I had to try it myself.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming. Goethe When I read this quote, I had to think of the Rosenthal-Jacobson study. You have probably heard of this study. In the late 1960’s there was an experiment at an elementary school. The teachers were told that some of their students (their names were revealed to the teachers) were to be expected to excel.

The other day Lisa was in a school play in which she was a boxer dog. For that she needed a plain brown hoodie. Even though I bought the cheapest one I could find, I thought it was kind of sad that it would only be used for like an hour. So I decided to jazz it up a little so hopefully Lisa wants to wear it. I bought some fabric and started cutting, sewing and glueing.

Yesterday I posted a message on Facebook in which I asked people if they might be interested in a meditation session guided by me (by the way, if you didn’t read that, but you are interested, please contact me). Personally I like to meditate, especially when guided. One of the reasons I recently started meditating on a regular basis is to connect to my body and spirit. I have been living in my mind/ratio for a long, long time.

Has it happened to you too? Your child has a new pair of shoes and the first day they wear them to school, they’re ruined. Well, it happened to me a lot of times and this week again 🙁 . Lisa had new pink boots, and the first day she wore them to school, she came home with purple boots. I hate it when that happens. According to Lisa it is chalk, so I googled binged cleaning chalk from suede boots.