Paths to wellbeing

25/02/2026

The level of psychological mastery you need to lead others does not come easy. You want others to follow? Who are they following?

Most leaders don’t struggle because they lack professional knowledge, management frameworks or even feedback skills.

They struggle because somewhere on the way, they’ve disconnected from themselves. Or even - that they never were connected in the first place.

They speak but the words seem not to land.
They try to lobby for their ideas, only to find that success feels like a constant struggle for compromise.
They put in more effort, use more words, look for more tactic’s
Only to find, that leadership becomes more and more complex and difficult instead of becoming easy, light and joyful.

And then there’s leadership development that misses the mark.

Studies show that most leadership development is simply not effective, mostly because it trains for behavioural change without looking deeper. It tries to change how leaders behave without connecting to the base of identity: purpose, meaning, healthy vulnerability and empathy.

And without connecting to those, there’s not much to lead with. Not much to follow.

03/01/2026

Life is a video game and I think I've just reached the next level. The graphics have definitely improved.

01/01/2026

What a place! Definitely the most beautiful place in the world I've ever seen. Breathtaking.

01/01/2026

11/08/2025

Haven’t read anything this real in s a long time. Real in the sense that it shows how unreal dreams can become if you let them be influenced by what you see on social media.

A bit of a bitter commentary on chasing a dream without an actual plan. Novel about two creatives living in Berlin. Housing issues, monsteras, s*x clubs and everything in between.

14/03/2025

I recently shifted my focus from workplace well-being to sustainable performance at work.

The reason behind it is simple: I listen to what my clients are telling me.

It seems that feeling well is not enough these days. We all already know that going to yoga, being in nature, slowing down and taking care of your health is important. But most of my clients are also ambitious people, who apart from feeling well want to advance in their careers, get those promotions and an occasional walk-in closet.

Well-being needs it seems do not cover it all.

Thriving requires accepting the need to be vulnerable and the need to have agency, strength and endurance in achieving your goals.

Sustainable Performance is a binding concept that came recently to me. I design techniques and interventions that help find balance between our need to move faster and achieve more, and the need to rest, regenerate and tap into a more efficient, more internally aligned energy for work.

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I am a psychologist with a PhD in human thriving, a therapist, and a corporate trainer.

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13/03/2025

Feedback can be a mirror or a blindfold.

Good feedback reduces stress and makes performance sustainable. Bad feedback increases uncertainty and drains you. So know how to ask.

Ask the wrong way, and people will tell you what they think you want to hear. Ask the right way, and you will uncover things you did not even know you needed to see.

Some feedback reassures you, some of it fills gaps, some of it surprises you, and some of it knocks you sideways. And you need all four.

30/12/2024

The best movie I watched this year. „The room next door” by Pedro Almodovar gave me such peace of mind when watching that I got transported back 20 years to a time without so much information noise. Every frame is a masterpiece, it’s magnetic. Good for the soul, 10/10.

14/06/2023

From the perspective of the moon, we're all the same size. From my perspective, having listened to people's stories - we're also all the same inside. Same fears, same longings, similar basic mechanics. Whatever you're going through, trust me, you're obsessing about the same things everyone else is, we just have different ways of coping with it.

13/06/2023

Enjoy the journey.