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Do you keep yourself from being happy?

If you’ve read a book or a blog or watched a video on self-development and/or spirituality I guess you’ve come across the word „surrender“.

It’s usually used in connection with challenging situations, with loss, with...

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Because of a Photoshoot!

„Eleshia, are you in for a photoshoot? With Bry, the brilliant and most wonderful photographer who came to the mountaincabin for a week to shoot me there!? There are two slots free in a gooorgeous house at the South coast of England!! Can I...

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When Japanese TV made my man the 3rd most famous Japanese in Switzerland : )

5 years ago a TV-team from Fuji Television Japan came to Ken's Restaurant. They planned a show about "The most famous Japanese people in Switzerland".

Ken scored 3rd famous after Kei Nishikori the tennis player and Mr. Takahashi who runs a Japanese...

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I’m made in Iowa City - a place to grow : )

I‘m made in America : ) actually made in Iowa City. My mother told my father in 1975 after they got married that she wanted to go to Iowa city sometime because her beloved Swiss Godfather was living there. My father had the biggest grin on his...

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Riding the camel and other motivational features of Mount Seta ; )

Riding on the camel was our motivation when we had to go hiking in the valley of our mountain cabin as kids.

I hated hiking so much ! Camels got me going though. And the white-red-white striped marks of the Swiss hiking trails. Finding the next sign...

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“Miss Muuuuller!!! I’m tiiiired!“

All of my life I wanted to become a primary school teacher. I remember playing school with my mother and my one year old sister when I was four and I told my mom that I’ll write the number ONE on her “reports” instead of the...

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My hippie-festival-love!

How are you in this summer of 2023?

Have you been at a music festival in your life? Are you a fan? No thank you I don’t like so many people at one place? Maybe you would fall in love with Uhuru Festival like I did in 2016. Mika was five and I...

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When facing the enemy pays off

The following story is in my book “The Joy Compass”. I would love to give it to you as a present - just because you are amazing and could need a great read for summer? You can even listen to my BEST English on the audio book : ). If you...

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The "real Heidi" experience...

It was in the underpass of Chur main station, the mountain district of Switzerland, where I approached two young Japanese ladies who were looking at their map.

“Doko e ikimasu ka?” Where are you going?

Ken always laughs at me for wanting to...

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Why my husband lets me down on invitations…

“I’m not a gorilla that you can show around!” Wooow, Mister Sakata, ookeeey.

I learned a lot about how to choose to go or not attend a party from my darling husband but let me start a little earlier than the gorilla-comment:

When we...

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How changing my name empowered me from my bullied past

If you think my life has always been full of joy, here is my story. Spoiler alert, it wasn’t.

Twice a week we had to wait for Mr. Hotz in front of the glass door of the gym. Anja and the popular girls talked about me every time as if I would not...

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I WANT TIME for MYSELF!

In the spring of 2015, Ken, Mika and I were in Japan for 5 weeks. It was such a cool time, we traveled to all the corners where our friends and the Sakata clan lived and celebrated life.

Family time. 24 hours a day. For some a dream, for me it was...

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