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  Carl Jung stated that the psyche has a self-regulating system. This self-regulating system helps people grow and stay healthy. If you believe that every person has a specific life path to follow, it’s good to know that we have a kind of inner compass that guides us back on track when we lose our way. (Who is Carl Jung? Read about him here:  www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung ) When we get stuck in daily life due to certain patterns or complexes, it hinders our growth. And we fail to reach our life’s destiny.  According to Jung, growth means getting to know ourselves completely, from the inside out. And developing new aspects of ourselves. In psychoanalytic therapy, the therapist uses dreams, drawings, and active imagination to bring the images of the subconscious into focus.  When we can’t grow—perhaps because we don’t know how to handle a situation or can’t process our feelings—or when we can’t let go of something or someone. You find yourself repeating the same ...

  Qigong Research Every week, I dedicate a day to researching Qigong. For now, this means recovering my password for the university library, which turns out to be not as easy as it seems, compiling a bibliography and, above all, reading a lot.  Reading Carl Jung’s work isn’t that easy; he doesn’t write for entertainment, but for fellow professionals. As a psychologist, I am indeed a fellow professional, but I’m reading his work in a very different era, one in which psychology no longer consists solely of a few schools of thought, such as psychoanalysis and a number of related approaches. Psychology today consists of a wide variety of ideas, perspectives, and theoretical frameworks. The concepts themselves have also changed over time.  And what I personally find very unfortunate is that a bit of spirituality and creativity has disappeared. Since the invention of the computer, we can measure just about anything, and psychology has shifted toward a measurable discipline rath...

If you’re sensitive person, maybe highly sensitive, or have a nervous system that’s easily overwhelmed, or if you’re experiencing burnout. Whatever name you it has. The symptoms are the same: you can feel quickly overwhelmed, overstimulated, and restless. You feel that you need a lot of rest. You don’t handle busy environments very well. Sometimes too much light, noise, or radiation is just too much. In my practice, I often help people with these kinds of issues. Energy healing and Qigong exercises, in particular, make a great combination. I teach people how to take good care of their own energy system so it doesn’t get overloaded all the time. Together, we figure out which exercises and methods are best suited to the specific complaints you experience. No two people are alike, so complaints, causes, and approaches differ for one person to the other. My treatment approach is based on cognitive behavioral psychology, meditation, Qigong exercises (Qi work), and working with the chakras. ...

In 2026, I will begin my scientific research into how practising Qigong benefits mental health and can lead to individuation and self-development.  As there are currently no grants available, I will finance my research by teaching Qigong, mainly on a donation basis, in order to make Qigong accessible to everyone.  All your donations and shop sales will go towards funding the research. All income from my Qigong classes  will be used to fund this research. You can support my research by buying me a   cup of tea, a book or buy one of my classes. To be continued .......

  When people ask me what kind of work I do, I find that a sort of difficult question to answer. These days, I am expected to explain my mission in one sentence. (And to continue on that theme) I am supposed to have a website full of movement and promises, super fun social media posts, preferably with lots of photos of my amazingly photogenic pets.  Too often I sat down with a well-meaning coach and tried to explain that I have a business that is not focused on increasing profits, that the people I want to reach out to can actually read, and therefore don't need to be sent from one moving image to the next on my website, and that my social media posts are about what nature really looks like here in the Netherlands and I don't feel like or have time to photoshop my photos, because everyone does so.  So why do I occasionally talk to a coach, you may be wondering. It's because I want to reach as many people as possible with my work and am open to suggestions, but in my own a...