Als je door mijn website bladert, kom je van alles tegen. Beauty, persoonlijke verhalen, moederschap, ebooks, creativiteit en dingen waar ik enthousiast van word.Maar je vindt hier ook iets anders: Invisible Battles. Misschien lijkt dat op het eerste gezicht een vreemde combinatie. Een website waarop ik het ene moment enthousiast schrijf over beauty en het…
Before you have children, you can have all kinds of ideas about the kind of mother you want to be. How you’re going to handle certain things, what you’ll definitely do and, above all, what you’ll never do. And then you have children and quickly discover that real life doesn’t always…
Starting over can sometimes sound as if everything that came before has suddenly disappeared. As if you’re going back to the beginning and have to rebuild everything from scratch. But that’s not how it feels to me at all. Over the past few years, I’ve done, tried and built many different things, and sometimes I’ve let things go again too. I’ve learned about social media, content creation…
People often say that you should always stay true to yourself. And I understand what they mean. You shouldn’t have to change who you are just to meet other people’s expectations. But at the same time, I sometimes wonder: why should we remain exactly the same person throughout our entire lives? I’m not the same woman I was five…
When we think of a disability, many people automatically have a certain image in mind. A wheelchair, crutches, a white cane, a walker, a guide dog or a prosthetic limb. Things that are visible and may make it easier to understand that someone might need certain accommodations. But a disability isn’t always visible. Sometimes…
Soms weet je diep vanbinnen al een tijdje dat iets niet meer vol te houden is, maar blijf je toch proberen. Omdat je er zoveel tijd in hebt gestoken, omdat je er nog steeds van houdt, omdat er mooie herinneringen aan vastzitten en omdat je mensen hebt leren kennen die belangrijk voor je zijn geworden….
