Grondlegster Marina Riemslagh - Live The Connection

Marina Riemslagh

Expert and expert by experience

Founder of 'Live The Connection'

Introducing...

My name is Marina Riemslagh (PhD)

I have spent the past 30 years in counseling, research, teaching and practice around stress and stress behavior.

I examined its influence on our behavior, well-being, relationships and health.

From my many trainings and private practice, I developed "Live The Connection" and "Pathway Breaking Through," to de-stress and take control of your life in an independent, healthy, effective, quick and easy way.

'You have to learn to live with it' is absolutely unacceptable to me

My main motivations for developing the "Live The Connection" method were primarily my own traumas and also seeing the many seemingly "unsolvable" problems people face.

For years I worked as a nurse, then in psychiatry and later as a spiritual caregiver.

In all sorts of places, I saw people, both patients/clients and caregivers, making terrible efforts to solve problems, however, without results.

The much-expressed phrase in both hospital and mental health care "you just have to learn to live with it" was (and is!) absolutely unacceptable to me.

After my scientific research on stress, I really began to understand how it is that people put so much effort into improving their lives and yet experience no improvement.

It is my absolute passion or even a first necessity of life to help people help themselves.

Because not only do I KNOW that virtually every problem is solvable.

I also know that ANYONE has the ADVANCED POWER to do this SELF.

After more than 30 years of training, I know that every person possesses the ability to make the best of his or her life.

And that's the most beautiful thing there is: Seeing people become themselves, discover their power and see love start to flow naturally.

That's what I do it for!

With connecting greetings,

Marina

Some questions for Marina...

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What is your motivation for developing Live The Connection? How have you yourself been changed by Live The Connection?

My drive and motivation to develop Live The Connection comes from the experience that so many people suffer from both what they are going through now and what happened in the past.

There is such a deep need and desire to do something about it quickly and powerfully.

People not only suffer from current stress from such things as conflicts, or grief, or lack of desired contacts. They often also suffer from stress from things they experienced years ago, in their childhood or youth.

Images or thoughts of "then" require a lot of energy. Valuable energy that cannot be invested now in what would feel good now.

In my research and PhD that I defended in 2011, I discovered how stress works in the brain.

Afterwards, I found what can be done about eliminating the effects of stress in an easy and quick way. I want to make that accessible to everyone So from that, Live The Connection was born, a method that works very powerfully and everyone can apply it: both children and adults, healthy and sick people, ...

The workshops I give live online are attended by very young people as well as 70- and 80-somethings, by people running a whole family as well as those who are sick in bed.

I myself am much more calm, loving and focused thanks to Live The Connection. So I am better able to commit to what I care about. My health is also really good, whereas before this was not all okay.

Live The Connection is a method that creates safety: you know you can move yourself forward in any circumstance. There is no more dead end. Through Live The Connection, your options remain open.

Can you share a bit about your work experiences that helped develop Live The Connection?

Looking back, all my work experience has contributed to Live The Connection. I am a nurse by first education, so I am always interested in what happens in the body. I learned to care for what someone needs to heal.

Then I worked in psychiatry for 14 years. So I know what human suffering comes from our living conditions, what traumas can all affect us. The hopelessness that some people end up in has continued to drive me to look for solutions that you can apply yourself.

Then I worked as a spiritual director. I have had extensive spiritual training, and having suffered from intense irritations myself, I have tried just about everything within my reach in terms of counseling and tested it for its effect. That is why Live The Connection contains the best elements of all the methods I have used myself. Because it is at once so much more than the various elements, it is also truly new and more powerful than ever.

Of course, I also wanted to test whether I could back up my claims about the power of this method. EEG scans (which measure the electrical activity of the brain) immediately showed the effect of "The ABC of de-stressing. The results of consultation (one hour of work) with someone who was very irritable were nothing short of spectacular.

Author of the books

How do I test myself? Learn all about muscle testing yourself (2024)
De-stressing yourself in less than five minutes (2018)
No stress today with PSYCH-K® (2014)
Constructive counseling? Destructive justice in professional interviewing (2012)
(In)Correct Conversation. Fundamental research on the ethics of the pastoral conversation process (Part I and II) (2011)
Abortion over for good? A counseling model (2004)

Written articles for trade journals

M. Riemslagh, 2022. Resolving the consequences of sexual boundary violation: it can be done! Journal of contextual counseling.
M. Riemslagh, F. Cuvelier, J. Coveleyn, A. Liégeois, 2012. The 'METHODIC' Exploration of Ethics in Interaction: the Cycle of Encounter, Journal for Pastoral Care & Counseling.
M. Riemslagh, 2010. Security drive, attachment or imagination. The relationship between the structure of our brains and the course of pastoral conversations.
M. Riemslagh, 2009. Abortion from an Existential Point of View. The Impact of Abortion on the Life of Women.
M. Riemslagh, 2008. "The face-to-face as asymmetrical and reciprocal revelation: founding the ethics of the process of pastoral counseling in the footsteps of Levinas," in R. Burggraeve, The Awakening to the Other: A Provocative Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas, Peeters Publishing.
M. Riemslagh, 2007. 'Spiritual counseling: one case study, three perspectives. Presence approach, contextual counseling and narrative considerations.
M. Riemslagh, 2007. The invisible filter in moral conversation. Comparison between socratic and contextual dialogue.
M. Riemslagh, 2007. Contextual looking at children in newly formed families.
M. Riemslagh, 2006. Abortion and guilt. Psychodrama makes guilt accessible and manageable.
M. Riemslagh, 2002. Contextual counseling. Commented bibliography.
M. Riemslagh, 2002. Women after abortion. Counseling experience with Keria in a theoretical framework.
M. Riemslagh, 2001. Exploring the methodology of pastoral training (unpublished final paper Center for Supervisor Training, Council for KPV.
M. Riemslagh, 1998. On wealth, rivalry and responsibility. Report of the Eighth European Congress for 'Pastoral Care and Counselling' at Ripon.

University scientific research:

After you: Relational Ethics in Dialogical Counselling.
Introduction: "After You" and the Asymmetric Reciprocity of Pastoral Counseling.
(In)Correct Conversation. Fundamental and empirical research on the ethics of the pastoral conversation process.
Enhancing ethical practice and critical reflection through the sTimul experience in a care ethics lab.
From "Good Morning" to the Responsibility for the Responsibility of the Other: A Levinasian Perspective on Pastoral Conversation as Ethical Event. "
"After You! Dialogical Ethics and the Pastoral Counselling Process.

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Articles about and interviews with Marina:

M. Enriquez, 2007. Lifestyle Inquirer Philippines, 'Belgian life coach shows how to de-stress in less than 5 minutes' by Marge Enriquez
M. Riemslagh, 2005. Taboo on abortion processing remains. Counseling women after terminated pregnancy (interview by Nele Joostens), in Jet, 37, 21, Nov. 2.
M. Riemslagh, B. Vanmechelen, 2002. After grief sometimes comes anger. Women help women process abortion (interview by P. Demeyer), in Het Nieuwsblad July 12.
M. Riemslagh, 2000. Women are relieved that they can talk to someone who really understands what they are going through, in Day All (2000) 47, 144-145.
M. Riemslagh, 1993. Do women learn differently than men?, in Symforosa 5, 18, 8.
M. Riemslagh, 1993. On the beneficence of a prison internship, in Sacerdos 60, 4, 341-346.

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