Please less.
Be more you.
Imagine living less by other people’s expectations and more by what feels right for you.
Stand out & shine helps you stop people-pleasing, chasing perfection, and holding yourself back.
Through my book and blogs, you’ll learn to trust yourself and take up space as who you truly are. I’m also available to book as a speaker on authenticity.
Stand out & shine is for you if…
– you’re tired of constantly adapting to others;
– you’re afraid of disappointing people;
– you always set the bar high;
– you care too much about what others think;
– you want more freedom and self-confidence;
– you want to live by what truly matters to you;
– you just FEEL there’s so much more to you than you’re currently showing.
Practical self-help book
You may have become really good at adapting, keeping going and thinking about everyone else. But somewhere along the way, you may have lost touch with yourself a little.
That’s why I wrote Stand out & shine. A practical guide to fearless authenticity and self-trustThis book helps you break free from patterns of people-pleasing and perfectionism, trust yourself more, and choose what truly feels right for you.
It’s a practical self-help book full of relatable insights, embarrassing stories from my own life, reflections, and exercises. With this book, I invite you to dare to be ‘shamelessly’ you Stand out & shine will be released in October 2026.
Blog & Inspiration
Here you’ll find a collection of different sources of inspiration, along with my blogs about shame, self-compassion, and authenticity. Let yourself be inspired and discover what resonates with you.
PS. I write when it flows, not because I have to. I try to be kind to myself about that. So my blogs appear exactly when they feel like it. Usually very irregularly ;-).
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Podcast interview on Tea with Tali: Stop Shaming Yourself
In deze Podcast-aflevering van Tea With Tali word ik geïnterviewd door Talitha Elmendorp. We praten over jezelf klein houden, aanpassen en bang zijn om echt te laten zien wie je bent. Het gesprek gaat onder andere over pleasegedrag, sensitiviteit, authentiek zelfvertrouwen en leren…
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Why I simply had to write my book.
In dit verhaal deel één van de meest impactvolle, richtinggevende gebeurtenissen uit mijn leven. Uiteindelijk leidde dat life event (want zo voelde het echt) tot het schrijven van mijn boek ‘Stand out & shine. A practical guide to fearless authenticity and self-trust’. Ik…
