Living Our Humanity, with Hella Zouiten

Do you wish to love more freely while remaining fully yourself? Do you also long for more fun, pleasure and joy in your life and in your relationships? “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” James Baldwin In this second part of Love & Relationships (2/2), I move toward friction, the importance of finding the right “distance” from which we...

Do you long to show more of who you truly are and deepen the way you relate to others? “To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.” Bell Hooks. In this first part of Love & Relationships (1/2), I explore loneliness, emotional intimacy and vulnerability. I also touch on trust, discernment, fear, and the courage required to be oneself AND remain present in...

In search of relationships that feel more alive, more authentic? Wondering how to truly nurture a relationship over time? What if loving fully were not only a feeling, but an art, an ongoing commitment to oneself and to the other… “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Gustav Jung In this audio artic...

Longing for harmony and an authentic way to relate with yourself and others? What if reaching for the life that we yearn for goes through looking into the aspects of ourselves that we have been repressing/rejecting... “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - C. G. Jung In this audio article, I explore the masks we develop to protect ourselve...

Feeling tense, overwhelmed or lacking direction? What if the way back to yourself does not start with more planning and thinking, but with your body... In this audio article, I explore the body as an inner compass. It is an invitation to listen to the body, to notice its signals and start a dialogue that supports moving through the challenge of “big emotions”, anxiety, overwhelm and tension. I als...

Tired of seeing the same patterns emerging in your life? Feeling like moving but wondering why you can't? The answer might be locked into your nervous system… “Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.” — Rainer Maria Rilke In this audio article, I explore how love, loss, and trauma shape the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. I look at ho...

Do you feel lost or anxious for no particular reason? are you longing for a deeper meaning? What if the answer is within you... “Become the one you are.” — Friedrich Nietzsche In this audio article, I reflect on identity as a living, evolving process. Drawing from personal experience, philosophy, body-oriented psychotherapy, and psychology, this episode explores how we are formed through encounter...