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Silke van Loenen - Ave Munde Therapy

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Silke van Loenen - Ave Munde Therapy

Clients will walk away with practical strategies to prevent burnout, manage pressure, and lead with confidence. Personal leadership, in other words.

Helping legal professionals go from feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious and burnt out to face the daily pressures of their profession with confidence, calm and clarity. 👋 Meet me

As a certified hypnotherapist/hypnotist and accredited coach, I help legal professionals go from feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, burnt out to face the daily pressures of their profession with confidence, calm and clarity. Taking leadership is something I have done as well. In my mid 30s I had a burn-out. I sought help, changed my life and career. I decided to retrain myself: to become a therapeutic coach and transformational hypnotherapist. I love to work with the subconscious mind. That´s where, in my humble opinion, the real change and transformation begins. I´m Dutch, have Indonesian roots, and live in Spain. I am caring, authentic, practical, pragmatic. I see things from both sides, and have a wicked sense of humour. My focus is on vicarious trauma in the legal world, burn-out symptoms, stress, low self-esteem, and relationship issues (especially the one you have with yourself!).

👩‍🎓 Certifications and diplomas
- Certified Hypnotherapist/Hypnotist
- Trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy®
- Rapid Transformational Coaching®
- EFT Tapping
- NLP
- Bachelor of Business Administration (Management, Economics & Law)

29/11/2025

“That’s a rather unappetising picture, Silke!” “Uhm yeah, you’re right. I’ve taken better ones. But it stands for and having peace.”

Read on.

8 years ago I was about to move to Spain. Leaving the Netherlands for a live in Madrid. Living together with my then boyfriend, now husband. He’s Spanish.

🎳 I underestimated moving to Spain for love. I was struggling, a lot actually, on all aspects (language, career, finding my feet, making friends). Felt like life knocked me over. Like pins in a bowling alley, hit by the bowling ball.

🎯 This isn’t a sad story though.
Because those eight years taught me to be responsible (the ability to respond); to be , flexible, adaptable; to step out of my comfort zone.
It taught me about me, my past, my thoughts, my behaviour, my emotions, my feelings, about acceptance.
It also taught me that the responsibility to make the best of a situation was all mine.

Challenging, inspiring and rewarding 8 years.

🇪🇸 Learned to speak Spanish (grammatically incorrect but not bothered by that).
🔗 Discovered wonderful networking communities (Dutch, Spanish and international).
💞 Built friendships (e.g. hanging on sofas, drinking tea, no makeup, ugly crying, laughing hysterically).
👩‍💻 Created a new career as a therapeutic coach (Resilient Legal Minds, a new program, starting soon).
🥘 Integrated in Spanish society, friends and family (ask me anything about food).

📸 And this picture? Last night I celebrated Thanksgiving with wonderful women - I met them at business networking events - I now call my friends. (Spanish) husbands were invited too. This isn’t just a plate with turkey and its trimmings. No, it shows I’ve found my feet.

My wonderful intercultural and life. Grateful, blessed, happy.
Thank you all who contributed to it 🤗

Happy Thanksgiving (weekend).

How did you overcome challenges?
What (or who) helped/ inspired you on your personal growth path?
What are you grateful for?

expat life | relationships | coaching

25/11/2025

The purpose of these Short & Sweet webinars is to manage stress, lower stress levels and recharge you. That’s all: a break, release, relax, recharge. See link in bio for the next webinar.

24/11/2025

Short & Sweet series: Resilient Minds

Join me this November 26, 2025 at 16h00 CET...
Release stress, anxiety and feelings of overwhelm during my Short & Sweet webinar.

Feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, burnt out?
⏯ PAUSE
🙏 Take a moment for yourself
⏳ 30 minutes of emptying your mind, grounding yourself, recharging.

You’ll feel relaxed and refreshed after this blissful break.

In need of a pause? Join my free Short & Sweet webinar
🌟 Release, relax and recharge. Sweet, isn’t it?
🌟 Maximum 30 minutes, I’ll promise. Hence short.

Give yourself 30 minutes to....
✅ MANAGE stress levels
✅ RELEASE stress
✅ LOWER stress levels

Are you in?
See you soon!

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About Silke
Silke helps professionals in the legal world, such as lawyers, judges and paralegals, go from feeling stressed, anxious, overwhelmed and burnt out to facing the daily pressures of their profession with calm, confidence and clarity. She is passionate about building resilient minds (preventing burnout and overcoming traumatic events).

Silke is a Certified Therapeutic Coach and Hypnotherapist. She works with people who are committed to do the work to achieve a profound transformation of their lives. Silke is caring, approachable, has a wicked sense of humour, holds you accountable, creates a safe environment. She doesn’t beat around the bush.

me time | stress management | stress | take a break | free webinar | mindfulness | burnout prevention | vicarious resilience | vicarious trauma | indirect trauma | mental health | secondary trauma | anxiety |

lawyers | paralegals | attorneys | barristers | solicitors | judges | law professionals

23/11/2025

How staying helps you move forward.

The other day I was walking around in Malta and taking pictures of doors. Old ones, beautifully restored ones, derelict ones. Doors always have fascinated me. What’s behind it? Who lives behind those doors? What are those people doing? How are they doing?

A nice topic for a post, I thought. When searching for a quote about doors, Walt Disney’s quote stood out.

“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths”

This quote brought me back to a moment where I was doubting my path and a dear friend told me: “I don’t think you want to find what you’re trying to find, I think you truly enjoy the search, the quest.”

At that time I thought it was BS. I wanted to have clarity, insights, understanding. But now, after having achieved a certain level of clarity and understanding, I keep on searching, questioning myself (and others). My friend was right.

Clearly, I’m curious by nature. It keeps me moving forward. It improves my relationships. It helped me become .

And curiosity not a bad thing!
Research has shown that curiosity is actually a beneficial characteristic to have.
- starts with curiosity. Challenges are looked at from different perspectives.
- grows when asking questions. It helps you find other doors that can be opened.
- are deepened. When one is truly interested, asking open questions and fully listening, stronger connections are being built.

🧐 Be curious. Stay curious. Do new things.
🚪 Knock on those imaginary doors. See which one opens.
Perhaps it’s an unknown side door that helps you move forward on a different path.

What will you take away from this post? Where could you incorporate curiosity?

personal leadership | personal growth | personal development

02/11/2025

Resilience

‘Muy de moda’, very hip and happening, this word.

I use it too, quite regularly: in my posts, in my conversations with clients, to myself.
I am a true believer that having the skills to overcome adversity is key to my .

🏄‍♀️ helps one riding storms and waves.
It creates acceptance most of situations are temporary, just like the seasons.
It has taught me almost nothing is permanent, personal or all pervasive.
It created awareness I have an important role in my suffering or wellbeing and I get to choose which role I prefer to play.

At the same time, I’m a bit tired to hear this word and the associated phrases too. Not everyone has the same ability to overcome hardship. We are all different, aren’t we.
Some of us:
- have not been taught these tools.
- have experienced traumatic events without the help to process these experiences.
- have witnessed traumatising incidents.
- have a rusty resiliency skill set.

For them -this was me too- these words, so easily used, can be hurtful. Especially when one feels really low and don’t know how to get up again.
They might get the feeling that they are a loser because they struggle doing it on their own.

👉 Let me tell you this: ‘I needed help to overcome certain experiences’.
I applaud anyone, including myself, for being vulnerable enough to acknowledge help is needed.

👩‍🎨 As Alain de Botton said: “A good half of the art of living is resilience”.

To be where and who I am now, to be in control and enjoying life, even the storms, I couldn’t have done it without others.

So, if you are struggling with , , , and don’t know where to start…

…Read those well-meant instagram posts, reach out to friends, trusted family members, and/or seek professional help. With this you’ll increase your resilience threshold and you’ll master the art of living!

21/10/2025

🤯 Sometimes my mind is full. Full of everything and nothing. It leaves me feeling overwhelmed to the extent of feeling paralysed. Unable to do anything at all.

🔒The easiest thing to do is to lock myself up at home (figure of speech of course). Trying to figure it out on my own.

The reason I felt overwhelmed was because I am working on group coaching program: a 6-week online group coaching program called ROLL. Even though I have sufficient experience in 1-1 coaching/therapy, group coaching is new. Not knowingwhere to start, how to start, how to set up this new program.

Have I told you it’s a program to help people learn how to keep rolling instead of coming to a standstill when overwhelm, stress, anxiety, feelings of burning out are taking over. Right 🤣 The irony 🤣

🛑 This weekend I decided enough was enough. Acknowledging I wasn’t doing well. Admitting that my mind was full, feeling overwhelmed, frozen. And I was walking in circles, instead of moving forward.

👉 What did I do?
I turned my solitary morning walks into midday walks & talks and called friends.
Oh, the relief of reaching out, asking for help and speaking out!
So, just two walks & talks and I’m rolling again.

As John Donne said, in 1624:
“No man is an island entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.”

No man is an island. We are not meant to be alone, to thrive we need to be part of a community. One doesn’t have to figure it out all on their own. Talk to friends, family, colleagues, even strangers who can help. Just like I did.

❓What do you do when you’re overwhelmed, when you feel stressed, anxious, burnt out or stuck? If reaching out and ask for help is difficult, how come?

 

16/10/2025

‘Never stop learning’ and invest in your is one of my key values.

A community close to my heart is . Their focus on , personal development, sharing knowledge, inspiring others completely meets my values, needs and interests.

2 weeks ago I attended their amazing yearly event. This year with workshops around roots (Integrated personal leadership: visibility from your roots).

These workshops by Heidi and Sandra were food for thought.

My biggest takeaways were:

1️⃣ How your nest 🪹 shapes you. E.g. how your upbringing and family situation have shaped skills that might have been survival skills back then, but now are skills that make you excel in their career. Normally we tend to focus on the negative aspects of our upbringing. In this workshop we focused on the positive lessons we’ve learned from our childhood.

My past taught me:
💡 The importance of taking care of others and yourself at the same time (the latter a lesson learned later in life)
💡 The immense value of volunteering to support your community (sports clubs, music groups, community venues, charities)

2️⃣ Another great insight gained was: we usually focus on spring and summer seasons (where things grow, bloom and harvest). Whereas autumn and winter don’t get the attention they deserve (enjoying the fruits of our labour, preparing the land for winter, let the soil recover, and planting the seeds).

🍃 Business wise we are very goal oriented, driven to ever increasing productivity and targets.
On a personal level we aim for more, better, and often.

🍂 All lovely and good, but we
- forget to take time to and
- are not understanding the importance of rest and reflection.
Both are equally important to businesses and people. To renew we need to .

My question to you is:
❓ What are the lessons of your upbringing that now make you excel at your job?
❓ Do you schedule and in your calendar?

13/10/2025

Back by popular demand: The Short & Sweet series

Feeling , , , ?
⏯ PAUSE
📅 Schedule a 30-minute break
🙏 Take a moment for yourself
⏳ 30 minutes of emptying your mind, grounding yourself, recharging.

I’ll promise you; you’ll feel re-energised and refreshed after a blissful break.

In need of a break? Join my monthly free Short & Sweet
🌟 Release, relax and recharge. Sweet, isn’t it?
🌟 Maximum 30 minutes, I’ll promise. Hence short.

Give yourself 30 minutes
✅ MANAGE stress levels
✅ LOWER your stress levels

🎟 Join live and as a bonus, I’m raffling a 1-hr coaching session (free of charge).

Are you in?
See you soon!

—

About Silke
Silke helps professionals in the legal world, such as lawyers, judges and paralegals, go from feeling stressed, anxious, overwhelmed and burnt out to feeling in charge of their lives and career. She is passionate about preventing burnout and helping legal professionals move from vicarious trauma to vicarious resilience.

Silke is a Certified Therapeutic Coach and Hypnotherapist. She works with people who are committed to do the work to achieve a profound transformation of their lives. Silke is caring, approachable, has a wicked sense of humour, hold you accountable, creates a safe environment. She doesn’t beat around the bush.

29/07/2025

💫 Mindful Monday: attention and energy

When your mind is full, be .

“Where attention goes,
energy grows.”
- Anonymous

👉 I’ve been there, mainly looking at (and for) the negatives in my life. With help, I turned this around. A shift on what I have and what I can control. In a very realistic way, because it is impossible to be constantly focused on the bright side.

It’s more like this:
Alright, this is happening, this is what I’m thinking. Is this helpful. What can I do to turn it around. Is there a bright side. Is there something to laugh about. What do I need to change (thoughts, behaviour). Why do I feel the way I feel.

❓You are - consciously or unconsciously - directing your energy every day. The question is: Where goes your attention? What grows with your energy?

💡 Where attention goes, energy grows. A simple yet profound truth. If your focus is on negative things, such as worries, lacks in your life, what is going wrong, you’ll notice more and more of it. On the other hand: when you focus on positive things, how seemingly insignificant they may seem, you’ll notice more and more of this too.

It’s like a magnifying glass. When you focus on everything that is not good or perfect in your life, you might think that everything in your life is either s**t, sucks or negative. I can imagine that life can be quite dark and tough then. When you are able to see the positive aspects of your life, you tend to have a brighter outlook on life, you see all the good in your life.

Benefits of redirecting your and energy:
✅ Rewires your brain. .
✅ Increases .
✅ Boosts positivity.
✅ Decreases stress and anxiety.

When you focus on what you can control, with compassion for what you can’t control, you automatically create a constructive, realistic positive mindset.

09/07/2025

Happy client

❤️🙏

23/06/2025

💫 Mindful Monday

When your mind is full, be .

“Box breathing is a valuable mindfulness technique
that can aid in stress management and overall wellness.”
- MedicineNet

👉 Box breathing is a form of yogic deep breathing. It comes from the yogic practice of pranayama, or focusing on the breath. Navy SEALs are using this deep-breathing technique to stay calm and become calm.

💡 If you’ve ever felt anxious or overwhelmed, some well-intentioned person has probably given you the advice, “Just breathe.” They were right though. Breathing exercises do help. Box breathing in particular is a very effective and easy method to relieve stress and find your peace.

✅ Box breathing improves mental well-being. According to research, taking slow, mindful breaths helps reduce stress and feelings of depression
✅ Box breathing deactivates the fight-or-flight response. Deep breathing causes the body to enter the parasympathetic or “rest and digest” mode, which helps your body and mind to calm down in stressful situations.
✅ Box breathing brings mindfulness to your breath. It’s like meditating. As you’re silently counting, which is a kind of mantra meditation, it brings you into the present moment.
✅ Box breathing clears the mind, allowing for greater focus and concentration.

👉 How to Box Breathe: 1. Breathe out slowly, releasing all the air from your lungs.
2. Breathe in through your nose as you slowly count to four in your head. Be conscious of how the air fills your lungs and stomach.
3. Hold your breath for a count of four.
4. Exhale for another count of four.
5. Hold your breath again for a count of four.
6. Do this for 5 minutes, twice a day

Take a breath!

16/06/2025

💫 Mindful Monday

When your mind is full, be .

“A simple “mmm” sound could be
the key to reducing stress and calming
the mind.”
- Dr. A Maya Kaye

👉 Humming it’s not just a melody - it’s a healing tool hiding in plain sight.

💡 Humming lowers cortisol (stress hormone) levels, improves digestion, enhances focus and attention, helps you sleep better and lifts your mood. Think of it as self-care through sound.

✅ Humming improves circulation and boosts energy, because humming increases nitric oxide by up to 15 times.
✅ Humming stimulates the vagus nerve, which calms your entire nervous system. Your vagus nerve is like your body’s chill button.
✅ Research by Trivedi et al. (2023) highlights that humming significantly lowers the stress index more effectively than other activities, making it an ideal tool for stress management.

👉 How to Hum for Maximum Benefits: 1. Find a quiet spot, take a few deep breaths, close your eyes and hum for 10 minutes. 2. Focus on deep, belly breaths while you hum and feel the vibration in your chest, throat and head. 3. Experiment with different pitches to feel what works best for you.
4. Hum when you need it: before an exam or a presentation; when feeling stressed/ anxious; before going to sleep.

Happy Humming!

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Lunes	10:00 - 20:00
Martes	10:00 - 20:00
Miércoles	10:00 - 20:00
Jueves	10:00 - 20:00
Viernes	10:00 - 20:00
Sábado	10:00 - 18:00
Domingo	10:00 - 18:00

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