Welcome to my blog
Here you’ll find short articles about creativity, meaningful working and living, healing and personal growth. I also share books that I love and have found useful and reflect on creative or experiential processes to support you in cultivating your own reflective practice.
Why bother: building a meaning practice in troubled times
The question ‘Why bother?’ often indicates the loss of meaning. A meaning practice helps us notice meaning between the layers of life’s mundanity and repetitiveness, its highlights and special moments, in our grief and despair, as well as our joy and hope. This post explains how the six dimensions of meaning are reflected in my small group online program “Reflecting on Meaning’ and what you might learn about living and working meaningfully.
Love your work. Do I have to?
Should we love our work? And is this even possible? What if the idea of a perfect job is as unhelpful as searching for the perfect partner. Instead we could strive for meaningful work. Understanding your personal sources of meaning is a good place to start.