Looking for trouble

I love my life as a writer (my second novel, De Nederlandse Bruid, will be out this November), but there is another work I have begun: I am a mind and body troubleshooter. Inner (and sometimes outer) conflict is my business. What I do is often called energy psychology, but I strongly believe what a…

My secret: I can’t get away from conflict

If I’d stayed with my first job in Turkey as the cultural attaché of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Istanbul, things might have turned out very differently, but I made the ‘faux pas’ of simultaneously publishing the odd article in a newspaper. Soon I was told I had to choose: diplomacy or journalism. I…

Inspiration

20 Minutes. J.K. Rowling @ Harvard. Wow! https://vimeo.com/album/1930617/video/1711302