The message of the little owl

Feb 8, 2025 | blog, Coaching

La Fontanita, where I have been living for years now, used to be our ramshackle summer home in the blue mountains of the Ardeche. The centuries-old stone farm had been updated to a bare minimum, allowing our stay during summer holidays. But certainly not more than...

Your wall

Feb 7, 2024 | Coaching, Music

Protection or prison? photo: Gyon van Dam We all do it; we have a bad experience, and put up a wall to protect us. And then, the wall stays and we forget that we put him there in the first place. We live with it, and it becomes a prison. Forgotten but still erect. And...

Newsletter fall 2023

Nov 12, 2023 | News

Francine van Dam’s Newsletter Fall 2023Hello there!I hope this newsletter finds you well. I am doing fine, we have rains finally, so the mountain streams are filling up again. Autumn has arrived.In these two weeks of school-holidays , I’m enjoying my...

padlock

Nov 12, 2023 | News

Cardiologist in padlock At the entrance of the Beatrix Park near to where we lived was this sign: As a small girl, I truly believed this sign was made for us personally…me and him. My father. Strikingly handsome, almost 2 meters, brown hair, blue eyes, and so well...

Fear

Oct 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

I remember the exact spot where I did get this thought: It was in some white portable toilets-unit, while visiting a pop concert in Amsterdam. I had fled the new family house in the east of the country and returned to my native town, alone and seventeen. I struggled...