Coach, artist and creative CLEW contributor Miranda van den Heuvel invites you to her intuitive painting workshops “Create from the heart!” Your life is like a blank canvas. It’s up to you what you do with it. As children, we know what we love, what we want to be; we have no fear about our capabilities, we […]
Book release: New & exciting ways of baking
19/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
Passionate foodie and CLEW contributor Lisa Fuchs releases her first cookbook “Delicious grain free baking”. Read more about it and get a sneak peek at one of the fancy recipes. After about a year of intense blogging of grain free baking recipes, I realized that I kept coming back to some of my recipes. I […]
Shaky legs & a six-pack vision
03/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
I think about fitness a lot. Normally it’s while I’m eating ice cream or finishing off a pack of cookies. Normally my thoughts are that I need to eat less ice cream and cookies and workout more. When a friend invited me to try a boxing class with her, I thought it would be a […]
A penny for your thoughts
26/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes I wonder if my brain follows the outside temperature, for example when it hits freezing point. Now, in my situation – you know, the expat wife situation – I can allow my brain to come to full stop on days like these. Not at all indicating that expat wife brains stop more easily, I am […]
Coping with winter
20/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
Katie Nail on how to get through the short days and grey skies, waiting for spring. Growing up in Florida, I always found “winter” to be an enjoyable time. It was the one time of year that I could wear a jacket and “real” shoes, there was the excitement of Christmas, the sun was always […]
Work out & bring your baby
08/01/2014 by 1 Comment
Katie Nail takes a look at life in Luxembourg – and in general – as a new mum, starting with what to do when your stomach looks like a “slightly deflated balloon”. “Baby weight” wasn’t something I really thought about during my pregnancy. I thought it was the weight you gained when you were pregnant […]
One Word for 2014
29/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
So Christmas is over, and we’re fast heading towards the New Year, with its cremant and fireworks and resolutions… Yes, New Year’s Resolutions. I could almost hear the collective sigh go up as I wrote that. Each year we make determined (perhaps) commitments to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with the family, be […]
Fitter in 21 days
02/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
Common barriers for people who want to start exercising and get in shape are: No time No equipment No knowledge or background in physical fitness Good news, people: No problem! You actually don’t really need those things to get started. It takes (hardly) no time, equipment or knowledge to get a great workout and get in […]
Netpats
10/11/2013 by Leave a Comment
Expat Dictionary, word of the month: Netpat noun /net’pæt/: an expat communicating with fellow expats and/or seeking support, advice and possibilities linked to expat life on the Internet. Please note that the explanation says nothing about desperate expats, wives or others, quite simply because the word has nothing to do with being desperate. Not as long […]
Mindfulness
23/10/2013 by Leave a Comment
How are your stress levels? Often my patients reply that they are fairly high, and in this day and age, life can be pretty full on for many of us at times. But a solution could be close at hand; there is lots of scientific evidence to support a technique called “mindfulness”. It has been shown […]
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