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EOR / Resilience in our lives: Self

A blog to explain a bit more about Elements of Resilience and how we use the framework in our lives. Here we show some practical examples and hope you’ll gain a bit more knowledge about resilience. Today in Elements of Resilience in our lives: Self! Self Self is the most personal element; it can be quite hard to grasp as it implies something different to everyone. Generally, the element self is about living a meaningful life. But what does that mean? Life choices Life can be pretty overwhelming and there are so many options, choices and possibilities. This is something…

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In Rhythm

Elements of Resilience in our lives: Rhythm

We hope to explain a little bit more about Elements of Resilience and how we use the framework in our lives. We will show some practical examples and hope you’ll gain a bit more knowledge about resilience. Today in Elements of Resilience in our lives: Rhythm! Rhythm Currently, rhythm for us has a lot to do with rituals and planning. We are both working 4 days a week at a company, which means we need to be somewhere at and for a certain time. For us, a set rhythm in the mornings and evenings can help us get through the…

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In Adventures in New Zealand

Winter in New Zealand, holiday to The Netherlands & Matariki

Long time no see! Two whole months of no blogs – you must be wondering what we’re up to! Well, lots of things changed in those weeks. We have moved house, went on holiday to The Netherlands, celebrated Matariki and enjoyed New Zealand winter. Today I’ll give you a little update. We’ll be back with more blogs and videos a bit more regularly from now on! Moving house Just 6 days before we left on our trip to The Netherlands we moved house! We found a tiny rental house not far from where we used to live. It’s a small…

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In Adventures in New Zealand

My first-ever Marathon in New Zealand!

Yes, I know, I know, I owe you a little race report from the Buller Gorge marathon I ran on 11 February… Back in January I wrote about my training and preparation for my first NZ marathon, located on the beautiful West Coast of New Zealand! Here, I’d like to share how it went (better late than never?). Spoiler alert: as per usual in life, things did not go as planned! Yet, even though my first marathon in New Zealand didn’t turn out as expected, it was a great experience nonetheless! Before the marathon I took a day off on…

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In Edible Permaculture Garden in New Zealand

Failures in a permaculture garden in New Zealand

Time to share some of the failures in my permaculture garden! This season I was overly optimistic that everything would work out according to plan. Of course, reality caught up with me… Gardening in general is quite notorious as being a failure-prone activity. Besides this, working with permaculture principles in your garden does not safeguard you against failures either. Rather it’s how you deal with them that might differ a little. Let me share with you what I mean by that. Failures?! It’s a relatively small garden, but holy smokes can it feel overwhelmingly big sometimes! Especially when the “weeds”…

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