Joy Blog
Do you feel guilty after every piece of chocolate or the tiniest cookie? Do you beat yourself up after a great meal, that you should have had a smaller portion and that you'll be fatter by this evening because your stupid choices?
My dear Daddy always...
Here we go, December is here with all the rules, the expectations and the activities we do. How do you spend your December? Stressing around? Managing everyone and everything? Taking care of relatives, buying presents, cooking all the food,...
How many breaths per minute do you take? Do you breathe through your nose or mouth? Have you ever thought about this or do you just trust your body to do this work? Luckily, we can trust our body, it does that breathing 24/7 for us, how amazing,...
Did you have sparkle sticks, champagne and a good New Year's party? The countdown for 2020: 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 ...and you promised yourself some New Year's resolutions - 5 - 4 - 3....what were they again?....2...1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2020 HURRAY!
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Imagine you open your mailbox and there is a letter looking like a birth announcement or a wedding invitation. But it’s not. It’s a handwritten letter to YOU and someone thanks you for what you did for him or her or them... this person...
Did your parents or other grownups told you non-stop what to do without any chance that you could decide things on your own? In our society we are so used to tell kids to wear a coat, because it's cold...to do this or that, because we said so! As...
7 kilos, that's 14 pounds, in 7 weeks… nope I didn’t lose it, I gained that weight. It really matters, what we feed ourselves. It’s really important to choose and decide. I like the «concept» of intuitive eating, where...
If you’ve never heard about positive affirmations, I cheer you on, that you read this text! Being curious is the first step for learning new and awesome tools, which are free and you don't have to tell anybody that you use them. (If you want to...
Years ago there was a trend in the blog-world (back then Instagram didn’t exist yet) about a «20 facts about me» challenge. I still have a blogpost on this, where I sometimes go and fact-check my facts. I remember that I wrote: I...
This is my favorite exercise: Write down 100 things.
When I hand over this homework, I always imagine the shocked faces of my «JOY-students»: Whaaat 100 things? Are you crazy???
I was teaching food technology for 12 years at a professional...
Tapping is my superpower tool!
Have you ever heard about tapping? EFT? Emotional Freedom Technique?
It looks and sounds so weird, you tap on different points on your face and body while you talk out loud, what stresses you out and what you want to...
When I was studying at the technical university, I lived with 3 guys in a shared apartement. Our alarms went off daily at 7:30am, we thought it is the middle of the night and that it's TOTALLY NOT POSSIBLE TO GET UP. «Are you getting up?»...
