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Have you got parental anguish? Insights by Jennifer Senior.
“Why is raising our children so associated with (parental) anguish?” Each time I have watched this TED Talk, I fully relate to what Jennifer Senior shares about parental anguish and the day her son was born. For I, too, had a C-section that was planned–when my soon-to-be-born daughter turned herself around to a breach position…
Read MoreNew Year’s Eve is coming up and then onto 2014!
An End of Year Message from HySoS Founder, Antoinetta Vogels New Year’s Eve is coming up and then onto 2014! It’s been an important year at HySoS and a life time of hard work is slowly turning to benefits and fun for me. Getting something launched is a lot of hard work that is worth…
Read MoreFrom our Healthy Sense of Self to Yours. Gratitude. Gratitude. Gratitude.
Whatever your traditions, may you feel welcome where you are. We the “family of HySoS” offer you our best wishes…today and everyday. *** From the kitchen sink of HEALTHYSENSEOFSELF to the thanksgiving diner Table of all Friends and Foes of HySoS wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving Diner with lots of people and things to be…
Read MoreSoS! Being a Great Boxer requires a healthy Sense of Self!
“When you take a stance and deliver a punch, the message is: I am accountable for my intent, my fears and my desires.” ~Cappy Kotz, Founder of Cappy’s Boxing Club, Seattle According to Cappy Kotz, who founded Cappy’s Boxing Club in 1999 in the culturally diverse, Central District of Seattle, the popular sport of Amateur…
Read MoreNow Available in Print (and Kindle): Healthy Sense of Self by Antoinetta Vogels
Good things are worth the wait, but you need not wait any longer! Announcing the happy news that the long awaited print version of the book by Antoinetta Vogels, Healthy Sense of Self – How to be true to your Self and make your world a better place! is available in print and digital formats.
Read MoreHealthy Sense of Self, How to be true to your Self and make your world a better place – Live on Kindle!
(click on the book) Dear friends and supporters of Healthy Sense of Self, dear people who would like to know more about the SoS Theory and Method, dear cool people all over the world, young and old, people with a heart on the right place but a big question mark in their mind: how do…
Read MoreThought of the Day, September 7, 2013
Indirect motivation is a concept that many people have never heard about. Yet, being able to identify it gives you tremendous power to change your life from being its slave into being its master. If you know why you do what you do you have a tool that works miracles. Can you spot the depth…
Read MoreThought of the Day: Happy is Productive. Shawn Achor TED Talk
We who spend our days in the name of a Healthy Sense of Self wish for you a happy and healthy Sense of Self as your legacy–for the by-products of a Healthy Sense of Self are contentment, creativity, productivity, community, and…
Read More“I am a work in progress.”
It’s nearly 6pm and in 25 minutes the Essential Bakery (apropos name!) will close for the day. For the time being I am safe to capture the experience I just had with one named “Anna” who commented on the Azure blue scarf I was wearing as most becoming on me. She was alone with her…
Read MoreThought of the Day: May 14, 2013
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection…
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