Where experience deepens awareness

Mission

As you begin to pay attention to your inner sense, something in the way you experience life may start to change.

Living by Inner Sense is rooted in a process of growing awareness and exploring inner life through lived experience. It grew from a simple but ongoing discovery. That life can be lived and understood more deeply when we learn to experience it from within. It offers a calm, educational space for those who feel a growing curiosity toward their inner world. Especially during periods of change or transition.

For more than two decades, this has included working with the energetic and subtle layers of experience. Something I have come to value deeply. Both as a way of living more consciously and as a means of continuing to grow and learn myself. During this time, I have also been supporting others with this work in a private setting. Helping them to process experiences, feelings, and emotions as they arise. It is a quiet but powerful dimension of inner work. One I am glad to be able to offer more consciously now.

In many ways, we grow through life without being fully aware of it. Experiences shape us, often quietly, sometimes over a long time. Yet there can also come moments when the wish arises to engage with this process more consciously. Often around times of change, transition, or inner questioning. If you recognise yourself in this, you may feel the need to understand more clearly what is happening within you. To learn to recognise and acknowledge your inner sense. And gradually find ways to relate to it with more clarity and steadiness.

My intention is to support you in meeting those moments. To experience life more as a meaningful and unfolding journey. Rather than something that simply happens to you. From there, space can open for insight to arrive in its own time. Not forced, but recognised as it appears. This way of living is also a way of learning. Life itself becomes the teacher. Through moments of clarity, but also through repetition, uncertainty, or experiences you may only understand much later.

Over time, this opens something wider. Life is no longer only what you see or think about. But something richer that can be lived and experienced on different levels. Often more subtle than we first realise. This is something I continue to explore myself. It helps me to move forward, whatever life brings or has brought. And at times, it opens the possibility of a new beginning. A kind of second spring, from within.

How this way of working developed

This way of working did not start as a method.

It grew from lived experience, formal training, and a long-standing curiosity about what lies beneath the surface. How we think, feel, and find our way in life.

Training in natural health, body-based approaches, and awareness practices gradually shaped a broader understanding of how people experience change. Time spent with teachers exploring presence and inner stillness deepened this further.

One thing became increasingly clear. Attention itself is central. Not as a technique. As a simple, direct way of allowing insight to emerge. What is felt, emotionally, physically, intuitively, tends to carry more than what is thought.

Subtle influences also play a role in how people find clarity and direction. This remains an ongoing area of learning, approached with care and without fixed claims. It is also an area where I have been able to support others directly for many years. One that continues to shape both the educational side of this work and the personal accompaniment offered in 1:1 sessions.

What is offered now is a continuation of that path. Shaped by years of experience, varied training, and continued development

My Journey

A long-standing interest in human behaviour, patterns, background, and culture has shaped my path from early on. Both personally and professionally. I have always been curious about how upbringing, environment, and lived experience influence the way we relate to life, work, and meaning.

Alongside this curiosity, I built a professional life involving responsibility, coordination, and ongoing learning. Not in isolation. Woven into the fabric of everyday life, family, and practical commitments.

Over time, this deepened my interest in a quieter but more persistent question. How does one stay connected to what truly matters, without losing oneself along the way?

Rather than stepping away from life, this inquiry led me to explore ways of living and working with greater awareness and rhythm. Relocating from the Netherlands to rural France was a conscious step towards a more connected way of living. A move away from a more demanding and outward-focused pace of life. Arriving there felt like being able to breathe again.

Rural life in France asks its own kind of effort. For someone driven to do and to achieve, that felt natural. Yet gradually, almost imperceptibly, something began to change. The energy that had always carried me forward slowly faded. It took years before the cause became clear. A cancer diagnosis that, in retrospect, had been making itself known for some time.

The treatments have left their traces. What has continued to support a meaningful and engaged life since then is precisely what now forms the foundation of this work. Being present. Working with energy at a subtle level. Maintaining a quiet trust in life, even when it is difficult.

Living by the same principles I offer others has made it possible to accept the lasting effects of what I went through. Not as resignation. As a way of continuing to live fully. The limitations are real and at times significant. But they have become a signal to listen more closely to my body. An ongoing challenge that, more often than not, can be met. In that process, something continues to be learned. And shared through writing, and with those I work with.

For most of my life I was, above all, a doer and a striver. Life has been teaching me another way. Sometimes gently. Sometimes through experiences that left little choice. Learning to be, rather than to do, has become both the practice and the gift. And for that, I am deeply grateful.

Held by the unconditional love and continuing support of those close to me, what had long been a quiet wish - to support others more consciously - gradually began to take clearer form.

These experiences form the quiet background of how I work today. Practical, involved, and attentive to life as it is lived.

If something in this resonates, you are welcome to [explore what is available], or simply to [reach out].

Professional framing

Living by Inner Sense offers educational services focused on awareness, presence, and inner orientation. Intended for those 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. Where formats include energetic work, sessions are guided by two facilitators, ensuring a shared and carefully held space.