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Why effective guidance starts with observation instead of standard treatment It often starts the same way. Someone sits across from you, visibly tired, sharp around the edges, empty in the middle. There's been a breakdown—sometimes abrupt, sometimes creeping. The word burnout is quickly mentioned. By the person themselves, by the employer, by the occupational health physician. Everyone seems to agree: this is what it is.   And yet something is wrong.   Because while the labe

Why our brain, like the heart, needs rhythm Sometimes I think we humans have forgotten how a heart beats. Not literally—but symbolically. We've started living as if the pause between beats is superfluous. We fill every moment with stimuli, obligations, and sounds. And precisely because of that, we lose something our ancestors knew naturally: the natural cadence of living, feeling, and connecting.   In my work as a coach, I see it everywhere: people who aren't broken, but out

Questioning our culture isn't a sign of rejection, but of awareness. It demonstrates our willingness to learn, reflect, and evolve as individuals and as a society. Diversity challenges us to think more broadly—and that's precisely what makes us more resilient, creative, and human. Therefore, let us not fear differences, but embrace them as a source of strength.

When our young people can no longer keep up – about the silent pressure of an overstimulated society We live in a time where everything seems to be happening faster, louder, and busier. And our young people feel this most acutely. Behind this generation's apparent self-confidence often lies something else: overstimulation, performance pressure, and exhaustion. More than 1.3 million young people in the Netherlands suffer from persistent complaints such as anxiety, difficulty c

Hi, my name is Cecile and I'm fifty years old. Half a century of life experience—full of highs and lows, joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations. My quest for happiness has brought me to where I am today: a middle-aged woman who is no longer young, but who doesn't feel old either.   I was born in 1975, in a time before screens. We wrote letters, waited for replies, and sometimes slept in the streets to get concert tickets. Missed a TV show? You'd write to the network asking

Inspired by the news of November 5th: "The Netherlands is bogged down by far too many highly educated people: '90 percent of time is wasted on PowerPoints.'" Not everyone needs to go to pre-university education—and that could well be our salvation.   I see it with my child at school. The pressure to perform starts earlier and earlier. Even before the end of sixth grade, there's talk of "recommendations," about what's smart, what has potential, and what doesn't. The tone is o