Explore your creativity

Explore your creativity

In our search for more mental resilience and well-being, creativity is an important tool. In one of her many interviews Texan researcher and author Brené Brown points out the importance of consciously cultivating creativity. For if we do not give our creativity the space it needs, it will turn into frustration. But creativity – along with other areas of growing self-awareness – does not come without courage. Courage to show up, to take off our masks and let our authentic selves be seen. Again according to Brené Brown the birthplace of creativity is vulnerability. Especially in a professional context (and let’s be honest, also often in our private lives) vulnerability is a term we often struggle with. Very…
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5 tips for (even more) mental resilience after 1 year of COVID-19

The corona crisis is controlling our lives for about a year now. Our certainties and liberties have changed significantly. The distractions of before exist no more. Thrown back on ourselves we reflect more than ever on the work we do, the life we lead, the relationships in which we invest. Every change holds opportunities, so does this corona pandemic. It takes mental resilience to spot and seize these opportunities. The 5 tips below, which I will elaborate on in the coming weeks, will help you to strenghten your mental well-being: Explore your thoughts and emotions Admittedly, regularly scrutinizing your own thoughts and emotions is not for sissies. It takes quite some courage in fact, as well as heaps…
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