Personal Reflection and Journaling about the first half of 2026
I am reflecting on these four questions, to move consciously into the second half of 2026.
What circumstances simply happened?
Where did I do things differently than before?
What am I celebrating about my process?
Who am I becoming in all of this?
Feel free to do a full stop here and reflect these questions for yourself. For 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or go and have a full day with these questions if you can step into this right now and it feels like a good idea for you.
This part is about my very personal reflection, I am sharing in my attempt to show of with all parts, in full honesty on where I am right now and see where this leads me:
What circumstances simply happened? Where did I do things differently than before?
I started the year in the Alps, in our bus at minus 15 degrees, with my family and our beautiful friends in Saas-Fee. An experiment, exactly as we had set it up. By the end I was ready for more comfort, and driving home felt like a clear yes. My intention for the year was simple: Ruhe und Rhythmus.
In January I closed my year long leadership retreat with a final week in Sitges. The surprise was that I did not want to leave home and my family. So unusual for me, and I let myself stay with the feeling. In the retreat I touched a wholeness that felt true and easeful at once, a shift from accepting myself toward loving myself. The dancer, the one full of emotions, the one who simply listens, all of my parts were welcome. Never have I felt so at ease in a big group. That was a big win!
Coming home was harder than expected. I moved too quickly through the transition I know I need, and I felt the cost. A clear reminder of how much I want to honour these passages. Great, I need reminders sometimes.
So much was opening, in me and in my husband too, and we made space for it as best we could.
A full Ayurveda Panchakarma Kur gave me a spaciousness I had never sensed before, like going from a violin to a double bass in the room I could feel within my chest. I let go of needing to be productive and of value at all times, and something wide came through.
I also kept asking how I can best serve. I felt new capacity without yet knowing where to bring it. This time I could stay in the not knowing, surrendering to the unknown more than I ever had before.
Spring brought our holidays in Locarno, a place I have returned to for 25 years. Unexpectedly the best holidays of my life, simply because I brought my needs into our family with strength and softness at once. Eight days, the three of us, full of joy and just being.
I made space for friendships and for nature, and sometimes for being tired and staying anyway, allowing myself to be less than 100% present. I also began working with a supervisor I deeply trust, a professional decision that felt so right and supportive. Also an act of self-care.
For Positive Coaching, I went deeper into my marketing and sales strategy and interviewed 13 wonderful humans. From their stories came a new offering and a clearer persona, built on process rather than role. I had a brand shooting that felt like a wedding with myself, relaunched a whole new website, recorded video testimonials with my clients, experimented with a podcast, wrote 18 newsletters, and guested in two podcasts recorded in nature. I kept serving my clients outdoors, walking in the forest, along the Limmat and all over Switzerland. I am grateful for every one of them.
I signed an Associate contract with ILD Integral Leadership Dynamics to support leadership development in large organisations. And when Ritu Riedweg invited me to take over the female entrepreneurs‘ network on the Gold Coast, I felt an immediate yes. I made it mine and rebranded it as WomenDorf.
Lately I have received many invitations toward more sensuality and deeper self love, after meeting inner parts like my inner destroyer and my sad inner child on a new level.
So much richness in the first half of 2026. I am grateful, and curious to go a level deeper.
What are am I celebrating about my process?
For me this one is mostly about celebrating my intention of calmness and rhythm, I am happy with my process, despite the setbacks and imperfection, but I remember my intention a lot and keep it «in the front» of my thoughts. One of the reflections that spoke loudest to me came from one of my closest people. She said, «You are so much more calm.» Yes, I am. So much tension has released. And I can feel it, and of course I am happy to hear those reflections coming back to me…
I am also so grateful, and celebrating the capacity I have built up over the last years, and more and more in the last months, to be with all parts of me and to give them a whole new level of appreciation. It is already starting to ripple outwards, and it is a continued process inwards, to give those parts love. Love as unconditional interest in their development, so that all parts may flourish and thrive.
I am celebrating accepting myself, also when not at 100%, not super present, tired. That’s okay, I am human, not an optimised machine, I am imperfect just as every other human. There is so much more acceptance I feel for my own humanness, stopping to treat my like an object. I also made room to experiment to be with less perfection in terms of doings sports and my rituals. What came out: Was much more flow, more following my intuition, more joy like for example in just singing without trying to get it right and feeling more what’s present, what’s mine, what’s not, letting go and let «emotions» and things pass through me…
Playing with emotional and somatic release with a very intuitive approach.
I have clearer commitments to my loved ones, my clients, my company and the places I continue to make more beautiful. That feels so great. Besides the commitments that become clearer, it’s beautiful and I am celebrating not having so many rules to follow any more, all of which have been imposed on me previously by myself ;).
I am also celebrating taking my needs more seriously, without being serious about them. :-DD
I am celebrating taking more responsibility for my reality, letting go some of my perfectionism as a protection mechanism, that was so ingrained in me. I am celebrating myself to have more and more choice in my behaviours and thoughts and how I relate to others, circumstances and myself.
Who am I becoming in all of this?
I believe I am becoming more whole. I am becoming more loving, from a place of self acceptance and love. I am also becoming more humble and more honest, honest on a whole new level. I can bear it all. Almost all. There are a few topics I still want to bring more light to, like money or sensuality. But overall I am becoming a calmer and more accepting person. I am sure I have let go of quite some pressure and tension, which leaves me lighter.
I am becoming more of ME, more of my essence.
I am becoming more love.
I am also becoming more and more a VOID room, with so many options and so much choice in how I use this space, and myself.
I am becoming. A void room full of choice. That is my being an author with a blank page I am no longer afraid of….
I am also becoming more at ease, with the struggles I do have.
Like balancing family time and work time.
Like balancing my own needs with those of others.
Like balancing …. much more ;))
Back to you my dear.
Take a breathe and:
Go and enjoy your beautiful life, author of your life!
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