In my work with couples I like to think of the Japanese art of Kintsugi. The word means ‘gold repair’ and it refers to the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer and gold in powder form. Instead of hiding the cracks, Kintsugi illuminates them. The once broken object becomes even more beautiful despite its […]
Read: good sex with Emily Jamea: Holiday sex >> All literature lovers call: Summertime stands for us and you know what that means. It is the beach of the beach. Most people consider “beach lectures” as all fiction and lint – but that is not entirely true. The definition of a beach reading is a […]
When Katja Faber learned that her 23-year-old son, Alex, was brutally murdered, she felt a physical pain, as if her body had been hit by a truck. “From the moment the police were at my door and told me the news that he had been killed, I felt changed, not only emotionally, but also neurologically […]
Ann always knew she felt things deeper than most people. She was always ashamed easily, cried quickly and felt overwhelmed in busy places. “As a child I was called ‘too sensitive’, a ‘crybaby’ and ‘thin skin,’ said Ann. As a result, she often felt insufficient and an” inappropriate amount of shame “. Nowadays Ann, now […]