How to Thrive in Life

08 Dec Sports psychology and …

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The Wombat 24 is here - a mountain bike endurance race where you ride as many 18 km laps as possible over a 24 hour period. My husband and I are entering the race as a team in the 6 + 6 category, a daylight only...

06 Dec Marking boundaries – how wombats do it and what we can learn from them

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It was a beautiful spring day for a mountain bike ride through the Wombat forest. Even saw a wombat, a native Australian marsupial, that lives in underground burrows dug with its teeth and claws. You hardly see them by day, but there it was, right outside the entry...

05 Dec How to relax and recuperate when we think we can’t

Posted at 15:36h in How to Thrive in Life

I don’t know about you, but when I’ve had a phase of being very busy, it takes quite a bit of effort to relax again. It’s a whole body and mind experience. Every cell is on speed, wants to continue running, do everything else but sit...

03 Dec The difference between ‘giving up’ and ‘letting go’

Posted at 22:04h in How to Thrive in Life

Indigestion woke me up at 3 am last night. It was both indigestion of food - and indigestion of thoughts. They say food and mind are connected. Eating too much at night is not good for sleep. I was hungry after being too busy to eat at lunchtime. In...