Where experience deepens awareness
MISSION
Living by Inner Sense exists to walk alongside women 50+ through the big turning points. Loss. Illness. Menopause. Divorce. A house that has grown quiet. The end of working life.
I know this from the inside. I have been through those turning points myself, and found my way to something that feels more grounded, more alive, more my own.
By listening to your inner sense. By reconnecting with your deeper self.
You can think of it as opening a new chapter. I would love to help you write it.
HOW I CAME TO WORK THIS WAY
This work grew from my own experience, and from years of training, practising, reflecting and watching. One question kept returning. What actually helps a person grow?
Because that is what this is. Not changing who you are. Growing.
Often it starts with friction. You keep bumping into yourself, and it takes a while to see why. The idea you hold of who you are no longer matches the situation you are in. Nothing is wrong. Something has simply moved on without you.
The first step is always the same. Grounding. Being centred. Being in the present moment. Grounding helps you connect with your inner sense, and once you are connected, choices become easier. You feel calmer. Stress has less grip on you, because you are in the now, with a clearer head. You start hearing your own voice again, instead of everyone else's.
From there it works like peeling an onion. One layer at a time, a little further, on every level. Insight into yourself, and then the willingness to look at the sharper edges. The patterns you never chose but learned to repeat. Ways of reacting, of holding back, of pushing on. They served a purpose once. Seeing them, accepting them, and then working with them is where growth actually happens.
Is it easy? Not always. Is it worth it? Very much so.
What it brings is a quieter kind of rest inside. And a life that feels more like something you are living consciously, rather than something happening to you.
Subtle energy has been part of my work for over two decades. I approach it with care, and without fixed claims. It shapes what I teach, and how I guide you.
MY JOURNEY
For as long as I can remember, I have been curious about people. How they live. What they eat and how they prepare it. What they believe, what they pass on, what they carry without noticing.
Other cultures have always drawn me in, not as something to look at from a distance, but as another answer to the same questions we all face. How do you raise a child. How do you grieve. How do you sit at a table together. Every culture has worked something out that another has not, and I keep wondering what we could learn from each other. Upbringing, surroundings, the things that happened to you, they shape how you relate to life and work and meaning. That has interested me since I was young, and it still does.
That curiosity shows up in ordinary ways. I write. I cook, and I care about where the food comes from and what it does. I make my own clothes, because there is something in choosing the fabric and shaping it yourself that words do not quite reach.
The move to France
Over time a quieter question began to take up more space. How do you stay connected to what truly matters, without losing yourself along the way?
I left the Netherlands after a burnout and a divorce. I had tried to find myself again there, and it was not working. Moving to rural France was a deliberate step. Away from a demanding, outward-facing pace of life. Arriving here felt like being able to breathe again.
Rural life asks its own kind of effort. For someone who was, above all, a doer and a striver, that felt entirely natural.
What changed
Then something began to shift, so slowly I barely noticed. The energy that had always carried me forward started to fade. It took years before the cause became clear. A cancer diagnosis that, looking back, had been announcing itself for some time.
The treatments left their traces. What has carried me since is exactly what now forms the foundation of this work. Being present. Working with energy at a subtle level. Keeping a quiet trust in life, even when it is hard.
Living by the same principles I offer others is what made it possible to accept what remains. Not as giving up. As a way of continuing to live fully. The limitations are real, and at times they are considerable. But they have become a signal to listen to my body more closely. Most days, that challenge can be met.
What I learned
I was a doer and a striver for most of my life. Life has been teaching me another way. Sometimes gently. Sometimes through experiences that left me little choice.
Although life can be heavy, I have learned that trusting it, and treating what happens as something to learn from, keeps you looking for what is still good. And that knowing yourself takes the noise off the line, so you can hear what is actually there.
That does not make anything lighter. It makes it different. I still have heavy days. I simply find my way out of them sooner now, because I have come to recognise my own patterns.
Learning to be, rather than to do, has become both the practice and the gift. For that, I am deeply grateful.
Supported by the people closest to me, a quiet wish took clearer shape along the way. To support others more consciously too.
That is the background to how I work now. Practical, involved, and attentive to life as it is actually lived.
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MY TRAINING
Four years of training in natural health, over 1600 hours, in line with international training benchmarks for this field.
NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner.
Over twenty years of working with subtle energy.
Guided meditation, developed through years of practice and facilitation.
Alongside this, a habit I have never lost: reading, studying, and staying curious. Psychology, mindset, biology, philosophy, the way people live and why. That learning never really stopped
PROFESSIONAL FRAMING
Living by Inner Sense offers educational services focused on awareness, presence, and inner orientation. Intended for women 50+ navigating change, or seeking a more grounded and conscious way of living.
This work does not replace medical, psychological, or therapeutic care. All services are offered online, within a calm, confidential, and professional setting.
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