Observing your thinking ‘’Life is wonderful and terrible at the same time. . If you live long enough, you will experience joyful successes and spectacular failures, great love and devastating loss, moments of wonder and bliss and moments of darkness and despair. The uncomfortable truth is that almost everything that makes life richer, fuller and …
Blue Monday Blog In 2005 British psychologist Cliff Arnall called out the third Monday of January as most depressing day of the year. To do so, Arnall used a formula that consisted among other things of the weather, debts, salary, failed New Year’s resolutions, vacation that seems far away and a lack of daylight. Although …
You are good enough! 3 Tips on how to deal with perfectionism. As a student coach, I interact with a lot of students, each of them with their own challenges, personal situations, and background. Although all of these students and their stories are unique, there are quite a few recurring themes that I discuss with …
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Loneliness. How do I connect with others? Loneliness, many of us felt lonely during the corona crisis. According to the RIVM about 80 percent of the student population felt lonely in this time period Do you recognize this? Perhaps you still feel lonely. Or you are afraid to be alone. But what does loneliness actually …
Boost your self-confidence! Everyone feels insecure at times Life is full of ups and downs which play a part in developing your self-confidence. But how can you motivate yourself to stand up after life knocks you down? Check out this blog. Self-confidence, what is it? Self-confidence is all about the image you possess about your …
Befriend yourself: from self-criticism to self-compassion I bet you are a great friend. I bet you treat your friends, especially when they are having a hard time, with kindness, empathy, and patience. You listen to them when they feel hurt, hug them when they are sad, speak words of encouragement when they feel insecure, help …
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Feeling rushed, restless or restive? Mindfulness can help! As a student, your life is full of activities: attending lectures, caring for yourself, going to parties, a job, visiting friends, and housekeeping. Sometimes there are not enough hours in a day. Student life can be fun, but all these activities can also make you feel rushed …
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4 challenges to beat the winter blues The summer is over and the days are getting shorter. When you wake up it’s still dark outside. When you’re done with school or work the sun has already set and it gets colder by the minute. It’s the time of the dark winter months an the winter …
How to be balanced in life after an intensive start of your study. ‘’ ‘And in the meantime, we organize things in such a way that we don’t have time to feel what we feel most deeply. Or to feel that something isn’t actually right.’’ Griet op de Beeck Balance. A theme that regularly comes …
A day in the life of Joost – Student Coach at Siggie for Students Have you already seen ‘Siggie for students‘ on your campus and are you curious about what we do exactly? Then you are lucky! Because in this blog I take you through a day in my life as a Student Coach at …
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