{"id":210,"date":"2018-08-28T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touchofsource.com\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2026-09-12T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:56:45","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/touchofsource.com\/?page_id=210","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/touchofsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nieuwewebsitefoto3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"507\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/touchofsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nieuwewebsitefoto3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/touchofsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nieuwewebsitefoto3.jpg 507w, https:\/\/touchofsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nieuwewebsitefoto3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For as long as I can remember, I have felt different from most people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That feeling became even stronger after a serious accident when I was seventeen. It made one question even louder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cHey\u2026 is this it?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something just didn\u2019t feel right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep down, I felt and knew there had to be more than what I had been taught and told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I started searching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because I had the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But because I had questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What drives me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do I feel what I feel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do I do what I do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do people respond so differently to the same situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do I keep running into certain things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does life sometimes feel so different from the way I was told it would?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And perhaps the most important question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who am I really, beneath everything I have learned, been given and taken for granted?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never been very good at simply accepting something because someone else says it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I investigated for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First outside of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, more and more within myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What began as a search for answers grew into a lifelong journey of awareness, self-exploration and personal development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along the way, I discovered that life itself is my greatest teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not books, theories or beliefs brought me the deepest insights, but life experiences themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By exploring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By falling and getting back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By refusing to avoid the difficult questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And by being willing to look at the things I would rather not see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is where I discovered something remarkable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The night brought color.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moments I once experienced as dark, painful or confusing often turned out to be the moments that held the most growth, wisdom and awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I discovered that consciousness is not something to simply think about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is something to live with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you feel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you respond?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happens in your body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which patterns do you recognize?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What choices do you make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what do you do with what you discover?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That made something increasingly clear to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awareness only becomes truly valuable when you do something with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not just understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a natural curiosity about what moves people and about what happens within our consciousness, our bodies and our everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like looking beyond the first answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ask questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I observe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I reflect back what I notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because I possess the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because I can tell you who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But because I can help you see, feel and understand more clearly what is happening within you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That, to me, is consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not becoming someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not trying to become a more perfect version of yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But learning to live more consciously with who you are, what you experience and what you choose to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>That is what I do as a Beleader of Consciousness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leading in being and in how you live with and engage with your consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And perhaps it all begins with the same question that started my own journey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cHey\u2026 is this it?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mission is simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To Be Me. \ud83c\udf1e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And from that movement, to inspire others to explore the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To discover that there is far more possible than you ever thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me For as long as I can remember, I have felt different from most people. That feeling became even stronger after a serious accident when I was seventeen. It made one question even louder: \u201cHey\u2026 is this it?\u201d Something just didn\u2019t feel right. Deep down, I felt and knew there had to be more than what I had been taught and told. Much more. So I started searching. Not because I had the answers. But because I had questions. What drives me? Why do I feel what I feel? Why do I do what I do? 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