Annemarie Lombard Puntschart about self-responsibility, self-empowerment and the power and presence that comes from within oneself.

Do you feel sick, lacking energy, drained, or weakened? You don’t know what’s coming and you’re scared. You feel overwhelmed by the new situation. Why me? That’s unfair! Thousands of thoughts are running through your head…

The chaos of thoughts and feelings is counterproductive in order to fully activate your self-healing powers in your favour.

Strengthening ourselves psychologically also means facing our emotions, recognizing where they are stored in the body, what patterns we have learned with what physical and psychological effects, and above all, which of them are contrary to our need for clarity, relaxation, and and liveliness. One way to achieve this is through the Grinberg Method, a

Lucy Hones is an Australian scientist, psychologist, resilience expert and best-selling author. She is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Resilience and Wellbeing and a senior researcher at the University of Canterbury.

When her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a tragic car accident in 2014, she was catapulted from the position of resilience expert to that of a grieving mother in an instant. She needed hope. Since she wanted to actively shape her grieving process, she decided to put her theoretical knowledge into practice from then on.

When it comes to integrating alternative methods into conventional medicine, Jon Kabat Zinn is the king of mindfulness. As early as the end of the 1970s, the American physician developed a programme at the Medical Center of the University of Massachusetts that is practised in clinics around the world under the name Mindfulness-based stress reduction – MBSR for short – almost 40 years later.

Live the day!

It is important that you motivate yourself every day anew, to work consciously and actively on your health, to live your life in the now, reduce your stress, to make every day beautiful and to decide every day anew for your life.

Auntie Superhero Tina!

Franz did a good job!

My good friend Franz called me. He said: “Listen, I met Tina yesterday. I know you have to cope with your situation now, but you know, she has also been diagnosed with cancer, has to undergo chemotherapy and so on. You have a similarly strong character, you fit together well, why don’t you “throw yourselves in a pack”?

It is important to allow yourself a moment of inner peace peppered with positive feelings again and again. With a little practice, you can take a moment for yourself anytime, anywhere, and empower yourself.

Tip from Caro

The day I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, I made the following entries to myself on my calendar on my phone:

At 9 a.m., my phone reminds me to SMILE.

At 11 a.m., it encourages me to keep my thoughts pure.

At 1pm, it reassures me that I am stronger than what is happening to me.

At 5pm – it motivates me: finish, hang in there baby!

and

at 7 pm, it flashes: “Parah Parah” – an Israeli proverb that literally means “one cow at a time”.