I used to have many, many passive-aggressive traits. Most of the time I felt wronged, mistreated, unappreciated and unseen. Of course I constantly collected ‘data’ to confirm this (which was quite easy) and build my cases, and once every couple of months the shit hit the fan, and I totally lost it. Completely out of nowhere, mostly. Now…

If we are so powerful, how come we can’t even force ourselves to like something? A couple of days ago this question came up when I was driving through London without the sense of REALLY enjoying it. Ugh. I know you know that one because we’ve talked about it before. The situation where dread starts to drip in, instead of the expected feelings of gratitude…

To almost give up. To almost give up on a plan, a dream, on something substantial and important you really want or need to change. What does that mean? I’ve had thousands and thousands of moments in my life where I almost stopped and returned from the new and unfamiliar road I was taking. …

Another little piece on mental labels. The disorder and disease thing. Yesterday or the day before I read a post from a guy who was totally elated to finally know what he was suffering from, mentally. There were several official disorders he’d recently received, and the most interesting, at least to me, was one that’s called…

I’d love to play the role of an awakened being that’s convinced they can move the universe. Would LOVE it. That would be so fucking awesome. Oh, man. Writing about frequencies and vibrations, talking about our infinite divine power. Taking the whole Oneness-thing for a personal spin. ‘You deserve the best, now go and fucking take it!’ Radical spirituality. You know what I mean. One of the…

I had one million plans. Most of them didn’t work out. Some of them did, sort of. And there were a few who were almost exactly the way I wanted it. I remembered those. The rest: not so much. Then things started to change. Pain, addiction, running around in confused circles. And when all of…

Almost. What an incredibly versatile word. Powerful, exciting, and scary too! I almost got hit by a car. I almost drowned. I almost missed my plane. And not just that: it also captures disappointment. I almost made it to the top. I was almost asked to be the drummer of the…

This is an almost unavoidable thing, as a coach, or a therapist. Since we’re in the human-connection business, there are all kinds of emotions involved, and everybody can start feeling particular things towards the other person. Everybody, so it can happen on both sides. I’ve seen this play out quite a few times, when clients fell in love with me. Or, to…

This morning, when I was sitting in bed drinking my bulletproof coffee, I felt an unpleasant urge to move. There was an ominous pressure to start something, to work on something. To fucking DO something! As if I’m personally stopping the entire universe from universing, and now I’ve got to get back in the game before everything explodes. So it feels something like: You’re wasting your time, and your…