It is, pardon my French, Kaa Uu Tee outside again so it's a day of lounging on the couch. Still few other options thanks to ‘Roonies and I think it's quite something that I'm dragging myself to the gym today. Finished Netflix, but no problem: I have reading material for today. And today it's not a thriller, detective, or novel. No, today I'm picking up the book by Chetanya de Wit.

‘We can change, be happy and loved’ is the title and that actually immediately says well what it's about. A self-help book always sounds so intense and a bit airy-fairy, but I've already started in this one and it's all going well for me. In fact: I consider the chance very high that I will actually benefit from it.

Because I can really relate to it. Especially this year, which turned out to be quite different than expected. For many people I think — at least for me — also a year in which I've thought a lot about how my life is actually going. Now that we've been working from home for a few months, I notice that I do — or did — a lot of things that actually didn't give me good energy. People, former friends, in whom I invested a lot of energy and didn't get it back. Certain patterns that were so ingrained in me that they are hard to break.

And this book genuinely gives you good tips for that. I think everyone can recognize themselves in it, whether you have a traumatic experience you're struggling with or you're stuck in your daily grind and patterns. It's a hefty read, don't be alarmed: about 700 pages. I'm still at the beginning, but I would say: give it a try.