The New Food in Town

24/07/2026

17/07/2026

We just got curious if chlorine for 4 consecutive days would do to us.
Now we know.
(There were 5 of us in our little team but not everyone fit in the frame)
4 days swim challenge Eindhoven.
The drink after each swim was a bonus, because I cannot imagine hard work without a reward!

09/07/2026

How I loved today.
When chronic injuries are on their way out, so happy I found my physiotherapist (and I’ve been to several) and can’t quite match the care from this corner in Gestel, Eindhoven!
When deadlines are met on a tight schedule; When a meeting your mentor go well and there’s new things to take away from an hour of intense assessments 😅
When it’s a Thursday evening and it’s mother and son bonsai lego time in the garden, in the dark and you can laugh till you cry at the same silly jokes.
I’m noticing the small stuff and the big. I’m noticing the good stuff and the rest. What seems not-so-great is something waiting to be learnt, or set free, or made peace with. Unless you stub your little toe on the door or your Trump’s godchild, that’s got to hurt! That’s f*cking ugly! 😅
Happy Friday one and all!

24/06/2026

Just since a few months ago, I’ve started using the changing room where all female swimmers strip and change in one big changing room. It’s not been in my culture or upbringing to share this space but here’s where the best conversations start, or the most laughable ones. Absurd and bizarre ones. People spill it out like they spill their top parts and beauty secrets. It’s enough to think about on the hall and bicycle ride to the next place.
Most interestingly, I find, everyone dresses in their own fashion — and it’s a t-shirt, a worn out pair of shorts, wrinkled linen trousers, frayed jeans, some are dated, some are trendy but nothing too much. The wardrobe of most that I see is, “wear anything that’s comfortable” fashion! I love to get a glimpse of fabric, shoes, coats when they hang in the changing room while its swimmer is in the water. (It’s when the swim and maybe the gear become the priority and nothing else matters).
In the swimming community, fancy fashion doesn’t quite matter. But a good swim does!

I love that my brain has even gone down this thought because I’ve been busy with other things like work, and a swim literally feels like a small holiday from the rest of the things I do.
Hope you have something too that makes you as happy as swimming does to me and my swimming tribe!
Just keep swimming! ☀️❤️

17/06/2026

Last tickets ….
Catch the light in a not-to-miss heart opening, soul nourishing workshop with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) also known as Tapping, and a gentle body stretch and flow (a yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates blend) this Saturday, 20th of June, from 1-4 PM at Yol-Kat Wellbeing Studio (€ 60 pp, includes a light healthy snack and tea in the end).

EFT is a gentle tapping tool that helps reduce stress and ease emotional overwhelm. When you’re feeling calmer and more grounded, EFT can also help you clear inner blocks and align with what you want to manifest in your life.

Come along, celebrate your light, treat your senses - Stretch, Flow, Tap.
DM if you’d like to know more.

11/05/2026

We’re not the Hallmark greeting card kind, but we are more the square peg in a round hole kind of fam.
And we are the slurpy, burpy, even farty, let’s sit and waste time on messy noodles and more talk “kwento” kind of people. At least we made a point of it that from MD onwards we’d make a better effort.
Not everyone celebrates like the rest.
And I certainly was not in the mood.
Eight years ago, we’d just lost Nanay a few days shy of mother’s day. And I miss being someone’s daughter.
So like this bowl of long stewed noodle soup, life can get messy and delicious at the same time. HMD!

03/05/2026

April - much had happened and my camera roll could not store them all. Nothing major. But enjoyed the everyday things on my favourite time of year. The tiny buds that broke on their nodes are palm sized leaves now. The birds that literally kissed (they were necking!) on the branch in front of my office window all winter, have built a nest in our hedge and mummy bird sitting cautiously keeping her offspring safe and warm. Yellow dandelions turned into white feather furry balls their thousand eyes staring back at me. The winter coat is in the attic, but I’ve just had to retrieve it. It was a false start. A bajillion steps with Cebu 🐾🐾; had chlorine for breakfast. And lunch dates with my son and FIL - as many as we could fit in. Tasted the sweetness of the earth with our first white asparagus meal of the season. There was Easter and King’s Day. And some very restful days as well. Had a fall, and a failure, and a lot of learning in April and I call it progress.
All’s good with me, I suppose.
Have another month to remember.
Happy May to you!

13/04/2026

Eindhoven peeps!
Excited to share I’m hosting another EFT workshop at Yol Kat Wellbeing Studio this weekend!

Tapping Transitions
A workshop for women
in change

Turn inward, tune in, and tap.
You’re doing okay!
Know the power right at your fingertips.

An EFT workshop you’ll learn:
• About Emotional Freedom Techniques/Tapping is, why it is effective and how to use it;
• To release the overwhelm and feel grounded;
• Unblock, untangle, and find clarity in where you’re at; Life can start getting better from here on…

Join us this Saturday,
18 April, 2026,
11:00 to 12:00
At Yol Kat Wellbeing Studio
Victoriahof 44, 5611 BP Eindhoven €35 p.p.

Send me a DM to save you a seat

09/04/2026

Slow down to accelerate
Turn chaos to calm
From worry to wonder
From uncertainty to steady confidence

Join me and an intimate group of 8 women finding their North!
A gentle guided space to pause; listen and realign with yourself.
EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique is a mind-body technique that brings clarity and focus into fruition
welcome to Your Compass EFT
at Yol Kat Wellbeing Studio
Victoriahof 44, 5711 BP, Eindhoven
Price 35 € pp
11:00 AM to 12:00 NN
Comment COMPASS to reserve your seat!