“Wishful thinking is in fact the first step: a desire. But just not enough to get into action, let alone into sustainable action. You need a plan and a promise.” It's this time of the year again: La Rentrée! After the ritual of les vacances (read: France is closed,...

Questions are a fascinating topic. A young child asks up to 300 questions a day (as every parent is well aware of :). As adults, we tend to value answers more than questions. But it is actually the questions that will move us forward! As a coach, mastering the art of...

Today is March 8, International Women's Day! As we globally celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, let’s have a look at what it took all those women to bring us that far. It’s a safe bet that they all had to up their...

Winter is coming to an end, there is an unmistakable feeling of spring in the air, and in pre-Covid-times I would now have gushed about sitting in a café and enjoying people watching and the newest spring collections and activities in Paris … You too might feel that...

I first came across the power that unfinished things hold on us when I was working on clutter. Each time I mentioned to clients or students that unfinished things are the worst kind of clutter in my book and the effects that unfinished business has on people's mind,...

“I had no idea of what I was doing, I had no idea how to fundraise, I had no idea how to put together a campaign… I felt like I jumped off a cliff and I had no idea what I  was doing, but I think going forward, I’m actually less afraid of jumping off the cliff”. About...

What a year it has been! Many of you can’t probably wait to leave this year behind you without so much as a glance back, and who could blame you! However. If you want to have the best possible start into something new, you need to create a proper and clear space for...

"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours." SenecaSeneca wrote this about 2000 years ago, which proves that humans haven't fundamentally...

Are you feeling punished or frustrated by the increasingly tight Corona restrictions? When at the beginning of the year we all hoped that 'this' would be over soon, we now know better. If you feel that 'thrive' and 'Corona restrictions' don't even belong into the same...

You’ve probably seen more of your home in 2020 than in the decade before. You also had and still have to make more of your home than ever before. You probably had to juggle around and add all kind of weird and wonderful functions to your home:  home office, classroom,...

One day in September I woke up  with just one thought in my head: "I have to get out of here!" One of my cats had just died, the weather had been way too hot for my liking (as everyone who has known me longer than ten minutes knows, I’m a winter girl) and...

When I wrote the title to this podcast episode, I knew that some women would have a reaction to ‘elegant accomplishment’. What comes up for you with those two words? I’ve noticed over the years that many women have a complicated relationship with the idea of being...

When I asked my community of Elegant Alchemists for feedback on where they currently were in their lives, many of the ladies shared the same feelings of overwhelm, stuck-ness, ennui or fatigue, too much to do, not knowing where to start... And from having worked with...

September, la rentrée and the start of a new normal are around the corner. As people start to look at the coming months, there is one question that will soon show up in your feed, in conversations with friends or in meetings at work: what is going to happen until the...

Let me ask you a question: have you ever known something that would have been right for you and done you a world of good, and yet, you didn’t do it? Eh oui, me too. Cheers! Welcome to the club! The next right thing for you to do may hover in the background for a...