Balancing Akt

08/11/2025

02/02/2025

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I pulled this card during a sound bath this week and it couldn’t be more perfect. Entering 2025, I felt an almost overwhelmingly deep sense of positivity, growth and adventure for the months ahead - and it’s delivering already. My January trip to the UK - the country that has really been the only place I’ve ever considered something like ‘home’ - offered an opportunity to check in with my life, my journey, my choices. The result was unexpected: despite the initial excitement to be back, spend time with people I love and miss, and quite frankly the crazy political landscape I was going to return to, after four days in London I started counting down the days until I could go ‘home’. Although I knew my way around London, I didn’t know my way around myself there anymore.

I’ve always been a wanderer who loves change and the comforting permanence of ‘home’ that so many people feel, especially in the places they originate from, has always escaped me. I think I will never quite get it because I’ve realized that for me, ‘home’ is not a geographical location; it’s a sense of having arrived exactly where I am meant to be right now - without any departure plans.

Maybe that is what they mean when they say “home is where the heart is”: where you love - other creatures, yourself, and life - in the deepest, most authentic and whole way possible. For me, that is in Baltimore right now…and that may or may never change. Unknown territory ahead 💫 ❤️
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02/02/2025

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I pulled this card during a sound bath this week and it couldn’t be more perfect. Entering 2025, I felt an almost overwhelmingly deep sense of positivity, growth and adventure for the months ahead - and it’s delivering already. My January trip to the UK - the country that has really been the only place I’ve ever considered something like ‘home’ - offered an opportunity to check in with my life, my journey, my choices. The result was unexpected: despite the initial excitement to be back, spend time with people I love and miss, and quite frankly the crazy political landscape I was going to return to, after four days in London I started counting down the days until I could go ‘home’. Although I knew my way around London, I didn’t know my way around myself there anymore.​​​​​​​​
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I’ve always been a wanderer who loves change and the comforting permanence of ‘home’ that so many people feel, especially in the places they originate from, has always escaped me. I think I will never quite get it because I’ve realized that for me, ‘home’ is not a geographical location; it’s a sense of having arrived exactly where I am meant to be right now - without any departure plans. ​​​​​​​​
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Maybe that is what they mean when they say “home is where the heart is”: where you love - other creatures, yourself, and life - in the deepest, most authentic and whole way possible. For me, that is in Baltimore right now…and that may or may never change. Unknown territory ahead 💫 ❤️​​​​​​​​
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31/12/2024

On this day last year I randomly thought: “2024 is going to be a tough one for many…” and damn, that feeling was accurate. The last twelve months saw a lot of loss and chaos and heartache and frankly some weird energy floating around.

Personally, 2024 cracked me wide open. I lost a fair bit, I gained a lot and I learned even more. One of my intentions for the year was to love with the most open heart ♥️ I did just that and would have lost myself in the process, if I wasn’t surrounded by the most amazing humans that held me patiently and guided me back.

This year has helped me grow as a person, maybe more than any other before it. I have learned that I’m a lover AND a fighter (emotionally, not physically); that strength and vulnerability live in the same house; that just like a Stehaufmännchen (in the picture above) I will always get back up even when I don’t have the solution to what knocked me down yet (I still don’t and that’s OK; maybe I will figure it out next year). I dropped the protective shell I built for decades this year and I have no intention on putting it back on 🦀
This crab will courageously lean into letting go when needed, holding onto what matters, cultivating more patience, finding more ease, loving even harder and living fully every single day of 2025.
Adventure lies ahead - I feel it in the air.

As in every year on this day. I reflect on all the wonderful people in my life and am grateful for each and every one of you: whether we’ve known each other for decades, met a few months ago or are yet to cross paths - thank you for taking a seat on my rollercoaster 🎢
I would not want to do this beautiful life without you!

Happy New Year ✨
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12/04/2024

• Best. Ever. Brownies •⁣​​​​​​​​​ I am neither a cake person nor a chocaholic, but even I cannot resist these brownies! They are gooey, dense and are basically just butter, eggs and chocolate...but if you are after an equally delicious and easy traybake these may become your go-to as well. I am not going to pretend that these are a "health food", but I still think they can be part of a healthy, balanced diet - after all, homemade is ALWAYS better than store-bought. Unless you eat them all at once...maybe don't do that.​​​​​​​​​~
Comment below if you want the recipe or visit my recipe library - 🔗 in bio
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06/04/2024

• Perspectives •​​​​​​​​​Sometimes you just need to stand on top of a tall rock and look at things from a different angle to break out of your repetitive patterns and swirling thoughts. ​​​​​​​​​Like in the movie "Dead Poets Society". Except they just climbed on a desk - which seems way less effort and was seemingly just as effective.
Either way, you get the idea - adapt your position and you may find more clarity.
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31/03/2024

We become surprisingly good storytellers when we don't want to deal with reality - being honest with ourselves is often the hardest thing to do. ​​​​​​​​​So whatever you are facing, dig deeper, ask yourself the difficult questions and embrace what shows up, even if it's not what you want to find. It's the only path to living your truth. ​​​​​​​​​•
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25/03/2024

• Inhale Strength - Exhale Resistance •​​​​​​​​​As we move into Spring, in this month's classes we've been working with the theme of life's unexpected twist and turns. We explored noticing the resistance that comes up in situations we didn't plan for, staying both grounded and in flow throughout them and maybe even embracing the unexpected as something beneficial. ​​​​​​​​​Life throws us weird curve balls sometimes, but no amount of resistance will help us get through them. So take a deep breath to inhale the strength you need and exhale the feelings that will not serve you on this journey.
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Come join me in March's last class before I head off on my Peruvian adventure.
Tuesday - 6 - 7:15pm at Breathing Dragon Harbor Point
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