"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...

      Half of the planet’s population is confined to their homes right now. So are you. And when you have nowhere to go, it’s so easy to just roll out of bed, throw on ‘something’ (or not!), down some coffee and schlump through your day with Netflix in...

We are experiencing times that are as fascinating as they are uncertain and challenging. Country by country is putting people into quarantine, and all of a sudden the role our homes play in our lives has been catapulted to the forefront! The best thing (whether...

    I remember the scene, about 20 years ago. We were with a couple of friends, and one lady had just shared how bad she felt about her child being verbally abused by a horrible first grade teacher, and how she felt completely helpless, not daring to do...

  I was staring at the spreadsheet and couldn’t believe my eyes. A dream, a small dream but still a dream, had just come true. In the past week I couldn’t have been looking at that spreadsheet more often if it were a picture of a Brad Pitt at the beach or a lotto...

How it all began ... little did I know that day that life would direct me towards the book that would transform my home and subsequently the trajectory of my life...  

  What do you need to run your Life well, happily, with a sense of purpose and joie de vivre, in short: elegantly ;)? For many people the first things that springs to mind are “more money”, “more time”, “a different job/spouse/education/career/family or home”....

The time was some decades ago, the place was our old house in the French countryside. The hole was right in the middle of our courtyard. It was the remnant of repairing a blocked sewer system (#oldhouse). Now the ground wasn’t level any longer, the interlocking...