My drive and motivation to develop Live The Connection comes from the experience that so many people are suffering from both what they are experiencing now and what happened in the past. There is such a deep need and desire to do something about it quickly and powerfully. People are not only suffering from current stress from, for example, conflict, or grief, or lack of desired contacts. They often also suffer from the stress of things they experienced years ago, in their youth or childhood. Images or thoughts of "then" demand 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 it to eliminate the effects of stress in an easy and quick way. I want to make this accessible to everyone. So Live The Connection was born, a method that works very powerfully and that everyone can use: children and adults, healthy and sick people, etc. The workshops that I give live online are attended by very young people as well as people in their 70s and 80s, people who run a family as well as people 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.

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.