“Eating at the table with the whole family is no longer possible. Lola has a hyperfocus on eating sounds and gets completely frustrated and furious when she hears us eating. Last year she reached a limit. We were having dinner and Lola lost it. She started screaming and crying that our eating noises were driving her crazy and that no one understood what it was like for her. That evening we searched the Internet for “going craxy over noise” and we found the condition misophonia.”
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What is the problem with pesticides?
Under pressure from demonstrating farmers, the European Commission recently withdrew a proposal to halve the use of pesticides in agriculture. Why do farmers resist and what does this mean for our future?
Continue readingBrain over Binge: A radical new take on bulimia
The book Brain over Binge offers a simple solution for bulimia and binge eating disorder, without the confusion of regular therapy.
Continue readingDigital Nomad guide to Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is a relaxed city in the north of Thailand with lots of trees and nature, beautiful temples and relaxded, friendly people. An ideal place to work digitally as a freelancer. And so I packed my laptop and travelled east.
Continue readingGrowing up with a narcissistic mother: ‘My friends called her Snow White’s evil stepmother’
Linda (42, self-employed and single mother of two children aged 15 and 17) had a complicated relationship with her mother from an early age. Over the years, she began to realize that her mother has narcissistic traits. She broke off all contact two years ago.
Continue readingHusna Jalal is a women’s rights activist from Afghanistan. We meet in the Netherlands for an interview about human rights, women’s oppression and western freedom…
Husna Jalal fled Afghanistan three years ago when the Taliban came into power and is currently living in the Netherlands. But she wants to go back to Afghanistan as soon as she can. ‘I love my country and I want to make it better from within’
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