Friedemann Schaub
It’s the beginning of a new year, a clean slate, a new beginning and another chance to reach your goals. With renewed motivation, you are choosing your goals for the next 365 days. However, chances are that, like so many others, you will give up on your resolutions within the next 30 days, leaving you … Read more
Do you find the beginning of a new year one of the most anxiety-triggering times? Whether it is about facing the big unknowns this year may bring, the sense of having to climb another mountain of obligations and challenges, or the worry that you won’t reach the goals and desires you have for the next … Read more
We are living in interesting, and seemingly, faster and faster moving times. Norms and values that were generally agreed upon as the foundation of our society are put into question. Ideas of right and wrong, truth and lies become more and more blurry as we are bombarded with an incomprehensible amount of unsettling, and often … Read more
Isn’t it mind-boggling that 2019 is already coming to an end? It feels like time is speeding up so much that we can barely catch our breath to keep up. One of the ways we can slow down time is to look back at all that this year brought us. We can think about all … Read more
Learn how to navigate life’s challenges with my radio show guest Kamla K. Kapur, who shares stories about the ancient mystic Rumi.
Death, itself, is a very delicate subject, which brings up many emotions such as sadness, worry, and powerlessness. The fear of death seems, for most of us, as inevitable as the event itself. It is a fear that makes us want to eat healthier, drink less, work out more and, maybe once in a while, … Read more
Many people are afraid of the inevitable changes that come with getting older. Whether it is the physical decline, the wrinkled face or the loss of relevance, the golden years are often perceived as a nightmare waiting to happen. For some, the fear of aging even starts already in their early twenties. It is taboo for our … Read more
Do you know that one of the greatest challenges in our society we don’t often talk about, is abuse? Did you know that every minute, 20 people get physically abused by an intimate partner in the US alone? Whether you were the victim of emotional, physical or sexual abuse, whether you were molested as a … Read more
Are you one of the 75% adults who experience moderate to high stress levels on an almost daily basis? On a scale from 1 to 10, what do you think is your average stress level in the course of a week? If it is above 5, this week’s Empowerment Radio episode is for you. There … Read more
When you watch the rain-forest fires, children of immigrants separated from their parents, glaciers in Greenland disappearing or politicians acting selfishly, do you also feel sometimes so overwhelmed by emotions, that it is hard for you to shake them off and focus on what was right in front of you? You may have experienced your … Read more