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The spirit of the goddess, Zoetermeer (2025)

07/08/2025

The Goddess goes back thousands of years.
The first statues ever found were of ancient mothers; wise, shamanic women with powerful gifts. Fully connected to both their humanity and the divine feminine.

Later, these women were honoured as goddesses, and every culture gave her a name.
She was known as Isis, Inanna, Astarte and later as Aphrodite, Hekate & Rhiannon. She has many names and forms.

All these names, and all the themes they carry, are archetypes.
Archetypes of the highest feminine form; the Divine Feminine.

For me, working with the Goddess helped me understand myself. Working with the dark goddesses taught me to love all the colours of who I am,to heal my shadow and to transform pain into light.

Seven years ago, after years of study, I was initiated as a priestess of the Goddess in Glastonbury, UK. It felt like the cherry on the cake.

For years I worked as her priestess, supporting others with her in my heart.
But back then, I still placed her on a pedestal.

Becoming a mother changed everything.
I started to see her beside me, instead of in front of me, or above me.
She became more of an equal and a presence I walk with.

These days, I mostly work with the Divine Feminine, the source from which the Goddess arises.
In some forms of pagan Christianity, she’s also called the Feminine Christ or Sophia.

She fills my heart.
She is in my prayers and in my meditations.
I also tell stories about her and sing her songs to my sons so they will know the divine mother as well.

She, the Divine Mother, who has passed through the wheel of time.
Even though they tried to erase her, she survived.
She never left us.
And her energy, the Divine Feminine, is rising every day here on Earth.

I’ll never say the Divine Feminine is the most important.

Both the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine matter.
The Feminine Christ and the Masculine Christ are both sacred.

In truth, the highest frequency we can reach is when they merge together, becoming one.
The Sacred Union.

But as a woman, I will always feel more connected to the Goddess.
I will always hold space for her.

And I will do my best to share her medicine and awaken her energy in both men and women.
🤎

06/08/2025

You are warmly invited to join a deeply nourishing evening of heart-opening cacao and sound healing. A sacred journey of rest, reconnection, and inner stillness.

Ceremonial cacao is more than just a drink, it’s a gentle yet powerful plant medicine that has been used for centuries in ancient traditions.

Cacao supports emotional healing, deepens self-connection, and opens the heart. It helps us slow down, feel, and soften into the present moment.

After the cacao ritual, you’ll be guided into a deeply relaxing Sound Healing journey. Using crystal singing bowls, my shamanic drum and other healing instruments, I’ll hold space for your nervous system to rest, your energy to realign, and your body to restore.

Sound healing works through vibration and frequency, gently bringing the brain into a meditative state and allowing the body to enter deep relaxation. It’s like a massage for your soul.

In our fast-paced lives, it’s essential to create moments of stillness. When your nervous system relaxes, your body can heal, your heart can speak, and your spirit can rise.

This ceremony is a pause from daily life and a portal to come home to yourself.

Comment below or send a DM to reserve your place.

No matter if your spiritual or not, you are so welcome, just as you are.🤎

Thursday 28 August 2025 | 19.00-21.00 | Festa Kraftverk, Oppdal

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30/07/2025

Sinner & Saint

I can hold a sound healing by the and move with frequencies like water. That same night, I’ll be barefoot in the dirt, dancing wildly in front of the system, bass running through my body like fire.

I am both water & fire.
Sinner & Saint.

We’ve often been told to choose, like we cannot be both. Holy or sinful, soft or fierce and sacred or sensual.

But the divine lives in the space between, there where water meets the flame.

And that word, “sinner”, it wasn’t always what you think.

In ancient Sumer, Sin was the Moon Goddess.
Priestesses of the Moon, keepers of the sacred feminine, were called sinners.

They held rituals with song, dance, touch, scent, and trance.
They served the goddess by being a bridge between heaven and earth.

Later, as patriarchal systems rose, these women were demonized.
Their wisdom was twisted and their powers where stripped.

Sinner, once a sacred priestess, became a word of shame and guild.

But I remember her and I understand now that I am her.

My fire is ancient.
I’ve been burned many lifetimes for speaking too loud, being to much, loving too free and living too big. But I came back, not to shrink, but to blaze.

I won’t always be easy to digest.
I might be “too much,” too wild, too everything.
But I’m here to be real, not palatable.

Love is messy and being a human is messy as well.
I don’t want only black and white, I want the whole spectrum.

If my fire stirs something in you, let it.

We don’t have to choose anymore.
We get to be both.

Sinner & Saint.
Priestess & Wild Woman.
Soft & Untamed.
All of it.

🤎

17/07/2025

What if the love story… is about me?

For most of my life, I believed that love was something I had to earn. Something I had to chase, prove myself worthy of, or give away freely in the hope it might one day return. I thought the love story would be written through someone else's eyes: a partner, children, family, friends.

But what if… the greatest love story was always meant to be the one between me and myself?

It took me almost 20 years to understand what self-love truly is. Not the fleeting highs of self-care routines, or the temporary boosts of validation, but the deep, unwavering choice to love myself, especially on the days I felt least deserving of it.

Self-love is acceptance.
It is holding space for your own humanity.
It is choosing kindness over punishment, softness over shame.
It is knowing you are already worthy, even in your brokenness, even in your becoming.

Since learning to love myself, my entire life has shifted. My heart has softened. My roots have deepened. I can love my children and my husband with a fullness and depth I never thought possible, because I am no longer pouring from an empty cup.
I am not trying to fill my voids through them.
Loving myself taught me how to love my family better. More free and more true.

But here’s the thing about the journey of life… it doesn’t end.

Now a new lesson showed up for me. A higher frequency knocking at my heart: Unconditional Love and Compassion.

Not just for my children, my husband and my my friends.
But for all beings and for myself in every version.
For the world, even in its chaos.
For those who can’t love me back.
For those who mirror my own wounds.
For those who trigger me and for those who I trigger.

And so I’ve begun to practice.
Some days it feels expansive, light and powerful
Other days it's hard and I have to search very hard for any feeling of unconditional love…

But loving myself fiercely and radically has given me a foundation I never had before.
And from there, compassion is growing roots.
Not perfect or finished, but alive.

I don’t need to rush.
This love story unfolds in its own time.
But I know one thing for sure,
it always begins with me.

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14/07/2025

This picture of me and my son holds so much more than just a lovely memory.

It’s a reminder for me of why I do my inner work. Why I choose to feel the hard feelings, to face the uncomfortable truths and to heal the parts of me that were never met with love, care or safety.

Because it’s not just about me.

When we heal ourselves, we heal for those who came before us and who will come after us.
We soften the sharp edges of generational pain. We dissolve patterns that once felt unbreakable.

We become cycle breakers not only for ourselves, but for our children, and for the ones who will come after them.

Our ancestors didn’t always have this choice. But we do.

Somewhere along the bloodline, someone has to say: It ends with me.

The pain, silence and shame that most of the time is not even ours to carry.

We carry so much more than we realize. Not just our own wounds, but the unspoken grief of generations before us.
Unlived dreams, swallowed words and hardened hearts.

When I choose to heal, I am not healing just for myself.

I am reaching back through time, offering softness where there was once only survival.

I am speaking the words my ancestors never got to say.

I am giving my children the love I had to learn to give myself.

Because this is how you break cycles.

By feeling what they couldn’t,
by grieving what they weren’t allowed to and by loving where they could only fear.

We need to become the cycle breakers not only for ourselves, but for our children, and for the ones who will come after them. For our ancestors, brothers and sisters, our communities and for that new world.

We cannot build a new world if we refuse to let go of the things we no longer want to carry into it.

We create a new world by daring to detach from what no longer serves.
By cutting cords & breaking cycles.

Yes, it’s painful and pretty hard but it's also sacred work.

It's how we heal not just ourselves but the children who will walk this earth after we’re gone, and the ancestors who couldn’t.

For them.
For us.
For what’s still to come.

🤎

06/07/2025

The Collective & the Individual

Something I very often speak about in my work is the importance of individualism.

Not the kind we've been sold the past decade. Not the hyper-independent, disconnected, "everyone for themselves" kind of individualism.

I’m talking about true individualism.
Being your own self. Authentic. Rooted and standing fully in your own power.

Honouring your own unique essence, because you are a gift to this world. Nobody else can live your unique path, share your voice or carry your medicine.

But I also feel the deep, growing longing for connection and community in most of us.

After years of isolation and separated nuclear families, we’re remembering something ancient.

That we were never meant to do this life alone. That it takes a village to raise a child, and really, not just a child.

It takes a village to hold the mother. To hold the father. To carry the elders.

To mirror each other’s growth. To celebrate, to grieve, to support.

The phrase “it takes a village” comes from ancient wisdom, cultures where childrearing, healing, learning, grieving and living all happened together and in shared responsibility.

So what is the individual?
The individual is your soul essence in this lifetime. It’s you, in your full truth. It’s knowing who you are, what you came to share, how you move, how you love and how you see the world.
It’s your yes and no. Your inner compass. Your path.

And the collective consciousness, that’s the field we all co-create together.

It’s the web that connects all hearts, all beings, all timelines.
When the collective rises in awareness, we all rise. When one person heals, that ripple is felt by the whole.

So how do we weave both?

By becoming powerful and sovereign individuals who know who they are, and by showing up in community with open hearts, humility and presence.

You living as your full, radiant self
and us building a conscious, connected world together.

The individual strengthens the collective.
The collective supports the individual.

With this new frequency on earth, it’s not either/or. It’s both.🤎

📸 with my soulsis

03/07/2025

The Lammas women’s circle, a celebration of the first harvest

Every women’s circle I facilitate here in Oppdal is woven into the rhythm of the Wheel of the Year, the ancient, nature-based cycle that follows the changing seasons.

By honouring these seasonal festivals, we not only reconnect with the natural world around us, but also with our inner landscape.

Each celebration of the wheel invites us to reflect, align, and grow.

On a psychological level, this cyclical approach brings grounding, rhythm, and a deep sense of meaning to our lives.

On a spiritual level, it helps us attune to life’s natural ebb and flow, reminding us when to plant, to bloom, to harvest, and to rest.

This time, we gather to celebrate Lammas, the festival of the first harvest.

Lammas invites us to pause and reflect:
🌻What has grown in my life?
🌻What am I ready to harvest?
🌻Where can I show gratitude, and where may it be time to let go?

Even though we live in a high Mountain village and the first harvest is more towards the end of august then the beginning of it, we are still going to celebrate the first harvest as a symbolic moment to pause, give thanks, and honour the ripening of life.

Together, we’ll explore these themes through:
🌾A guided meditation with my drum and voice, allowing you to drop into your body and connect with your inner wisdom.
🌾Making a fire
🌾Oracle cards and some journaling for personal insight and clarity on your current process.
🌾And we will make a harvest & gratitude candle.

When the weather allows we will take a dip in the beautiful river seen on the picture!

Although this is a women’s circle, it is not a sharing circle!
You don’t have to speak, explain, or open up if that doesn’t feel right.

Everyone walks their own path, and I hold deep respect for each woman’s unique journey.

As a space holder, I create a safe and sacred space where you can be your own individual with your own frequency and journey.

And, you don’t need to be “spiritual” to join.
You are welcome just as you are.
This is a moment of pause, connection and gentle nourishment for every woman who feels the call.

Will you join me for Lammas?

🤎

28/06/2025

Emotions Pt. 2

There’s not 1 best way to deal with emotions.
But I believe this: You must feel them, must acknowledge them and give them some space.

For me, the most powerful way to process emotions is to go through them.
To really feel them in my body and soul. No numbing. No distractions. Even when that means sitting in deep discomfort.

With two young kids and no family around, I don’t always have space but I create moments.

I’m someone who needs to be alone to process. To go into my “cave” and just feel them.

And when I allow myself that space, something begins to shift. Wounds begins to heal. Not because someone fixes it for me, but because I fully allowed it.

This doesn’t mean it becomes easy.
But over time, you get better at moving through it.
The pain doesn’t last as long and you become familiar with your inner landscape.

And most importantly:
At your darkest moments, light is already around the corner. Because when you move through emotions, you gain insight, clarity, and healing eventually.
It’s not for the faint of heart though, it’s messy and raw. But it’s one of the fastest ways to inner growth and wisdom.

There’s more than one way to feel and release emotions.

You don’t always need to sit in silence and cry.
You can also move them, express them, and create through them.

Powerful ways to work with emotions include:
- Making art – painting what you feel, even if it makes no sense
- Dancing – letting your body move with no rules or rhythm, just raw energy
- Making music or singing – expressing what words can’t quite say
- Writing poetry, journaling, or storytelling; giving your feelings a voice
- Screaming into a pillow or crying in the shower, it’s allowed
- Being in nature – grounding, breathing, reconnecting

There’s no right or wrong way, only your way.
What matters most is that you give yourself permission to feel.

Because the reason I can love and enjoy my life so intensely is because I’ve given space to all the emotions.

The dark and heavy ones. The radiant and joyful ones.

And when you allow yourself to feel the dark, you also unlock the ability to feel the light just as deeply.
🤎

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27/06/2025

Emotions (Pt. 1)

Emotions are complex.

They’re feelings but they’re also physical, mental, and energetic experiences. They don’t just “live in your head.” They move through your body, your breath, your thoughts and your reactions.
Sometimes they come softly, sometimes like a wave, and they can arrive all at once.

But what are emotions, really?

Emotions are your system’s way of communicating with you.

They are signals. They tell you something about what matters to you, what feels safe or unsafe, what needs attention, and what needs care.
They’re not “good” or “bad”, they’re messengers.

For example:
- Fear tells you something might not be safe.
- Sadness tells you there’s been a loss or something needs to be let go.
- Anger often tells you that a boundary has been crossed.
- Joy tells you you’re aligned with what feels good and right.

But many of us weren’t taught this.

As children, we often hear things like: “Don’t cry.” “Don’t be mad.” “Be strong.” “Stop being so dramatic.”

So, instead of learning to listen to our emotions, we learned to suppress them. We silence, ignore, or bury them.

And as adults, we all find our own ways of coping.
Some of us numb with alcohol, food, shopping, or scrolling.
Some stay busy to avoid ever sitting still.
Some push it away with logic, pretending everything is “fine.”
Some turn to exercise or walking, not always to process, but to escape.

But here's the truth:
When we hide our emotions, they don’t go away.
They just move into the shadows where they grow and influence us from the background.

You might notice it in:
- Irritability over small things
- Fatigue that doesn’t go away
- Avoiding certain situations or people
- A feeling of being disconnected from yourself

So, how do we actually work with emotions?

I'll post part 2 later on🤎

Ps. I never post because I need to post. I post because I feel there is something that wants to come out and be shared and I love to use instagram for that!

I'm now in a flow that I feel I want to share and post. Maybe at one point the inspiration will be gone again or my focus will be moved but for now I'll just keep going and following my fire🔥

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26/06/2025

The Ego Game in Spirituality.

Spirituality is a strange landscape with so many forms. Some meditate, some pray, some never say a word about it. And yet, somehow it's become a world full of rules, hierarchies, and honestly, a lot of ego.

I almost don't like to call myself spiritual anymore because of how the word is hijacked by ego.

Over the years I’ve learned one thing; Being spiritual doesn’t automatically mean you’re wise.
It doesn’t mean you understand life, or that you’re kind, or even grounded. I've met people who never call themselves spiritual, yet carry immense wisdom and insight into existence.
I’ve also met people deep in the “spiritual scene” who are stuck in comparison, superiority, or control.

Historically, spirituality has been used as a tool for power. Think of priesthoods and secret societies. Since ancient times, it’s been a stage for manipulation and dominance. And today, many spiritual spaces are still playing that same game.

A spiritual ego whispers “I’m better. I’m more evolved. I see what others don’t.”

But truly wise people know that
no one is better than anyone else.

Yes, there are different stages of awareness, but they’re not about hierarchy, they're just experiences. Life is not a ladder to climb, it’s a path to walk. Everyone’s on their own journey.

One of the deepest insights I received in the Yoga philosophy is that the greatest challenge for a yogi is the ego.
It’s incredibly easy to be fooled by it, especially in spiritual work.
That voice inside that says, “You’ve made it. You’ve transcended. You understand things”.

I remind myself often that when I think I know, I’m probably further from the truth than ever.

For me, being spiritual means knowing yourself, or at least, working on it.
It’s about honesty, humility, and awareness.
It's not about who is wiser or who is better.

So here’s what I’ve come to believe:
Focus on yourself. You’ll have your hands full, I promise. Just like I do.

Don’t project. Don’t compare and keep things close to your own heart.

And know this: you’ll be a student of life until the day your soul leaves your body.

And that’s beautiful.🤎

24/06/2025

Part 2 of changing frequencies.

We’ve been in a world dominated by unbalanced masculine energy: constant doing, pushing, logic over feeling, control over flow. This is being recalibrated now. The feminine is coming back, not to overpower but to bring balance.

You see it everywhere:
🔸️Women reclaiming their voice, their softness and their wildness
🔸️Men feeling safe to heal, cry, to open up, to be vulnerable
🔸️A deep longing for community, slowness, and meaning

This rebalancing is not optional. It’s part of Earth’s ascension. And when we ignore it, we suffer. Burnout, disconnect, anxiety are all signs we’re living out of sync.

So… how do we handle all this?
Even if you’re not spiritual, there are ways to ground and move with these shifts instead of against them:

1. Stay connected to nature.
Walk barefoot. Watch the sky.
2. Simplify.
Your nervous system needs space. Less noise, less scrolling, more being.
3. Feel your emotions.
Don’t numb out or push them away. Cry. Breathe. Let things move through you.
4. Clean up your life.
Detox your space, food, and relationships. What no longer fits this version of you?
5. Question everything.
Especially the things you were taught to believe. Ask: is this true for me?
6. Listen inward.
Your intuition is becoming louder but you have to give it space to speak.
7. Find your people.
You’re not crazy. You’re waking up. Find others who are too.

We’re in a collective rebirth.
The Earth is not dying, she’s shedding. And in that shedding, we are being invited to rise alongside her.

It’s intense, It’s uncomfortable and it’s also incredibly beautiful.
The systems that were built in fear are collapsing and something new, rooted in truth and love, is being born through us.

No matter where you are on your path, you are part of this shift.
You are not late. You are not broken. You are not alone.

You are exactly where you need to be. 🌱

23/06/2025

The energies on Earth are rising, changing, and we’re all feeling it. (Pt. 1)

Whether you call yourself spiritual or consider yourself down-to-earth, something is shifting.
Things that used to feel solid suddenly feel shaky. Time moves differently. People are questioning everything and old structures fall apart.

We are living in a time of massive transformation, both energetically and physically. Earth is ascending into higher frequencies, and that affects every living being on this planet.

We have entered "the Golden Age", as it's called. This is a term many ancient traditions use to describe a time when human consciousness expands again, after long cycles of darkness and forgetting. It’s a time of awakening, healing, truth, and connection.

In astrology, this shift is connected to the Age of Aquarius, a 2000-year cycle we’ve just entered. It brings with it innovation, collective awareness, spiritual freedom, and deep questioning of outdated systems.

And we’ve been here before.
Many feel we’re at a similar tipping point as Atlantis, that legendary civilization full of wisdom, energy technology, and spiritual power. They too reached a moment of incredible potential but chose imbalance, ego, and disconnection from the Earth.

We’re being offered the same choice now. We can repeat the fall, or rise in a new way. This time rooted in harmony, truth and remembrance.

You might already notice the signs:
🔸️People leaving jobs that don’t align anymore
🔸️More people moving into nature or simplifying their lives
🔸️A growing focus on mental health, embodiment, and energy healing
🔸️Younger generations questioning, refusing to fit in old boxes
🔸️A rising collective desire for purpose, truth, and authenticity

And in this changing frequency the feminine energy is rising.

One of the most beautiful parts of this shift is the return of the feminine. Not just women rising but the energy of the feminine in all of us: intuition, emotion, softness, creativity, cyclical living and deep connection with the earth.

I will make a part 2 where I will write more about the feminine & masculine energy and how to work through this big shift in a practical way.

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