In 2025, I started my coaching practice, in addition to my work as a scientist, a role I have been fulfilling since 2004. As a researcher, I got used to living mainly from my head. If you have lived here in the Brainport region for so long, you hardly see anything else around you. Everything is about status, performance, being seen, working hard and pushing through. Always onwards…

That’s why I know how easy it is to lose yourself when you’re stuck in your head; I’ve been there myself. I experienced burnout from 2008 to 2010. I only began to recover once I gained clarity on why my mind kept going in circles. Human beings can’t function purely rationally, and neither can I. Psychology has shown for over a century that emotions, memories and our environment often influence our behaviour far more than what seems “logical”. I wanted to understand this better.

Seeing and making choices clearly
In 2014, I was introduced to the Clarity Process® during a retreat workshop. The down-to-earth, practical exercises surprised me with their simplicity and effectiveness. Through these exercises, I was finally able to see my own choices clearly and make choices more clearly too.