My time in Thailand was great. It was the first time I got out of Europe and into the tropics. I went there to reunite with my boyfriend, who'd been out in Asia for some time already. We travelled together for a month after which I settled in Bangkok for…
Walking the Talk of Vulnerability: exposing the personal blog
From the start of my already long-stretched blogging career I've been facing the same dilemma: to tell or not to tell my family and friends about it. You'd think writers want to be read, but there is a case for anonymity and sharing only with those close friends you know…
The advantages of wearing soft bras
Earlier I already wrote about body image and self-love and how clothing can play a role in connecting to yourself and others. I believe that if we could value our appearances as less important, we would be able to connect more deeply with ourselves and one another. In this earlier…
Post Secret community art project
This post is about a really cool community art project: Post Secret, for which people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. The invitation: This results in enormously impressive honesty on insecurities and vulnerability. It gives insight in so many different forms of conflict and trouble…
Clothing reconsidered
In my post Love your Body I introduced the topic of body positivity. I wrote something about how I think getting used to being naked or else in simple clothing will be good for your body image and self-love. I then did not specify simple clothing which makes it a…