Wim Sometimes you don’t leave because you want to.You leave because staying is slowly breaking you. After my last retreat, I thought I’d be leaving with a ready camper, some financial stability, and a clear plan.Everything seemed prepared. Everything under control. But it didn’t go that way. What started as disagreements over space and belongings ended … Read more
The Fall and the Leap (Wednesday June 11 to Friday June 13) Wednesday, June 11 The breaking point didn’t come with a scream. It came with a whisper: I’m giving up everything — my house, my workspace, my business, my life as I knew it — and even then, I wasn’t given the camper. A … Read more
On how choosing yourself can sometimes feel like the harshest punishment There comes a moment when you can no longer stay silent.Not because you want to scream,but because the silence is slowly eroding you from within. Emotional and psychological abuse doesn’t start abruptly.It begins subtly.A comment. A glance. A seed of doubt planted.You start wondering … Read more
Why I’m sharing this Some people ask why I share such personal experiences in public. My answer is simple: because recognition opens healing. Because silence holds pain. And because those who live with the consequences of a toxic relationship often end up doubting their own experience. I don’t write to accuse, but to understand. Not … Read more
There are moments in a relationship that you only recognize as turning points afterwards.One moment you still believe everything can be repaired with effort and goodwill.The next, you realize: something is lost that won’t come back. What exactly is it? Often not love. Or communication. Or even closeness.But trust. The loss of trust is not … Read more
A story of choices and loss The end of Turbo The liquidation is official.The opposing party agreed.The ruling is final. As soon as the judgment is formally served, Turbo will cease to exist in its current form.How things will unfold from here, only time will tell. I knew this was coming.And still, part of me … Read more
1. How I found him I had reached a point where something no longer felt right. Not in what I did, but in how I lived. My body was sending signals I could no longer ignore: fatigue, tension, resistance to things I used to do without hesitation. My mind didn’t understand, but my system was … Read more
1. The aftermath in the heart of the storm There was no peace. No closure. No gentle processing. Only a storm that kept raging, in ever new forms. From procedure to procedure, from demand to counter-demand, from hope to frustration. My mind understood what was at stake. But my body was carrying something else: exhaustion. … Read more
“Why did you stay so long?” That’s the question people sometimes ask when they hear my story.But that question rarely touches the truth.I didn’t stay because I was weak.I stayed because my inner compass was still tunedto a map I was handed as a child. A childhood shaped for survival I grew up in a … Read more