On saying no, letting go of boxes, and why vulnerability is the glue
Last time I moved with two full cars. This time? Four.
My friend called me out: “Holtslag, what happened?”
So this week: saying no. No to events. No to stuff. Five boxes out the door.
Also in Peek in my Week #36:
🎙️ Podcast with Silvia Bogers on wanting to be seen
🌑 Barry Michels on prayer and vulnerability
🐣 Easter egg hunt powered by AI
🚫 Jamie Rose: “Just fucking say no.”
About questions that aren’t in the books, going out without alcohol, and why perfection is overrated
A new client brought photos of my parents that I had never seen before.
Plus: an interview with Barry Michels (YAY!), dancing until half past two in the morning (completely sober), and a beautiful tool that can help you too.
Peek in my week #35 is here. About letting go, receiving, and living. 💖
PKM, FAIL, on the sidelines
Two years of work. And on Tuesday morning I almost couldn’t bring myself to pick up the pilot copy. 😂
The fear is biggest right before the finish line. But (obviously!) I picked it up anyway. And tested it with people.
More about this week, about AI and intuition, about my son who became champion, and about the James Clear question I can’t shake: in Peek in my Week #34.
Thanks in advance for reading. 🙏
Podcast. Proof copy. Thorn bushes.
My first professionally recorded podcast last week with Sander Veldman.
At some point I did a tool with him. He saw the chaotic part of himself sitting across from him. The part that always has to keep going, do more, be better. (So recognizable!)
The series is called Nondicted: the road to fix-free. Soon online. More about this week in my Peek in my Week. See you next week? Thank you! 🙏
The invisible force that determines whether you get what you want
She did everything right: courses, therapy, books. She knew exactly where her patterns were. And still, every relationship fell apart. Until she stopped forcing.
What if letting go is actually the key?
I wrote about it.
Full moon dip, a wildly important goal, and stopping as a strategy.
Last week, for the first time ever: a full moon dip. The water was something else.
Just like this: “One is not born a woman. One becomes one.”
Maybe that applies to more than you think.
Peek in my Week #32 is here. Thanks for reading. 🙏
About being fit for the job, sending love, and why EPiC truly lives up to its name.
Hermit mode in sweatpants and bathrobe. Until I swapped them for my seventies flares and headed to the cinema.
Elvis EPiC. 8.5 on IMDb. Oh boy, was I glad that I did.
Plus: why inner work is never done, a Barry Michels quote that stuck, and the Fountain of Love.
Peek in my Week #31 is here. 💖
The world needs you. Just not the way you think.
You worry about all the misery in the world.
Meanwhile at home you snap at the people closest to you or stop communicating altogether.
Michael Singer puts it like this: you are creating a war right now. In your own home.
What energy are you bringing into the world?
Read my article about it here.
On hermit mode, a ring the universe took back, and the excuses of your inner saboteur
Hermit mode in sweatpants and bathrobe.
A ring I fell in love with and a crooked cake I tried to justify.
And the universe that was crystal clear.
Peek in my Week #30 is here.
About bullshit excuses, bright lines and biting the bullet. 💖
Peek in my week #29
There is nothing, literally NOTHING, my shadow has pointed me toward that I followed and later regretted.
That’s why: one year no shopping, no sweets, and 21 km on pure grit.
The new Week in Review is here.
Your heart already knows. Now act on it. 💖
Thanks for reading.
Peek in my week #28
One for all, all for one: that’s how pecan trees do it. I learned again from Barry’s wife, and I stepped onto the soapbox at Wonders of Work.
This week we’re talking about:
✨ Boundaries that are love
✨ Giving without running dry
✨ Solidarity without losing yourself
Week in Review #28 is live. Thanks in advance for reading. 🙏
Peek in my week #27
5 things that moved me this week:
A passage about regret.
A film that made me swallow hard.
An article about looking away as a choice.
A brilliant series that explains The Field.
And: F U, Part X.
👉 New Week in Review, experimental short format. I’d love to hear what you think. Thanks for reading. 🙏