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Jun 27, 2018, 7:07 PM

Enforced, persevered and overcome

Recently, I participated again in the international summit on healing trauma, with the best and international practicioners we have. During a couple of weeks, I spent a day part on two or three interactive sessions, in which the latest...

May 24, 2018, 5:30 PM

A colleague said: ‘to the gas’

When I was wearing long skirts and a ponytail as a little girl, I wanted to be seen for who I truly was, namely Dina-Perla and not necessarily Jewish. Besides, the outside was not entirely in alignment with what...

May 16, 2018, 4:44 PM

We see the other not as he or she is, but as we think he or she is

Dutch society offers lots of opportunities, a lot of security and ease, provided that we colour between the lines and preferably act as normal as possible, because that is already crazy enough. Everything goes according to the general established...

Mar 25, 2018, 7:18 PM

Close the Cheider and start over

If it is about meaning in this phase already and if that can be applied already, then growth is the only answer The orthodox Jewish school in Amsterdam, the Cheider, is under fire because of sexual abuse scandals. Recently, the Dutch newspaper NRC...

Dec 12, 2017, 4:30 PM

Women are needed for security

In the past fifty plus years, there has been a lot of individual and unnecessary sorrow within the closed-up and religious communities; frequently, an effect of recurring, age-old patterns of coercion. This also has been the case in the...

Nov 1, 2017, 10:21 AM

Nominated for the Joke Smit Award, Dutch emancipation prize The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science nominated me for the Joke Smit Award, the most important prize there is in terms of emancipation. The award symbolizes support for people...

Oct 17, 2017, 7:03 AM

When I was 7-years-old, my grandmother’s second husband said one afternoon: “Why don’t you come to the sofa bed in the living room? Bring a book and you will be allowed to stay up late this evening.” Three generations...

Sep 30, 2017, 8:57 AM

Chickens and atonement

Yom kippur is said to be the holiest day of the year, the day of atonement. Since the beginning of my adult life, I waited with hope and curiosity, to get disappointed year after year, by the same old,...

Sep 16, 2017, 8:39 PM

The year of cleansing

We live in an era in which the phenomenon transparency, in other words light, does remarkable things for our world. This phenomenon embodies the force of human responsibility, healing and redemption. Cases of inter-relational crime of all sorts come...

Jul 24, 2017, 10:48 AM

About baby posts

During IVF and after – when it sank in that I wasn’t going to be a biological mother – I struggled with different thoughts. Among others, the most basic task any woman could fulfill, I could not. After all...

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Author | speaker | coach - practice in personal growth, empowerment and spirituality | no blabla