insecurity Archives - Miranda van den Heuvel

Miranda2022-05-31T14:10:23+02:00October 9th, 2020|

SW SW SW SW is an acronym my first life coach taught me. It has to do with not taking things too seriously and the stories we tell ourselves. But let me start at the beginning. The other day, someone was saying to me that some people find my newsletter/blog laughable. My immediate reaction was: I am being attacked, I need to find out who it is and attack back or at least defend myself. I basically took what that person said personally. Then I stopped and breathed. Because that reaction usually [...]

The positive side of negative emotions

Miranda2022-06-02T17:23:40+02:00March 6th, 2020|

Two years ago almost to the day (don't you love the universal mystery of time?), I wrote this post. And man was it an eye opener. So many things started shifting after that. Have I gotten rid of all my anger? No, but I got rid of the parts that were standing in my way. Emotions are there for a reason. They usually alert us that something is wrong, dangerous, out of balance, that we need to protect ourselves. They happen when we step out of our comfort zones we enter new situations we meet new [...]