Face to Face Educational Psychologist

Vanoggend het ek weer stil geword by een van my gunsteling-insigte, dikwels toegeskryf aan Viktor Frankl:

“Tussen stimulus en respons is daar ’n ruimte. In daardie ruimte lê ons krag om ons respons te kies. In ons respons lê ons groei en ons vryheid.”

Hoe diep is dit dat hierdie innerlike ruimte presies is waar ons ware vryheid woon — die vryheid om te kies, selfs wanneer die omstandighede benoud voel.

Koning Dawid het iets soortgelyks eeue vroeër vasgevang in Psalm 18:19:
“Hy het my uitgelei in die ruimte; Hy het my gered, omdat Hy behae in my gehad het.”

Twee stemme uit verskillende tye wat na dieselfde kragtige waarheid wys: vryheid en groei het albei ruimte nodig.

Op hierdie Vryheidsdag in Suid-Afrika is my gebed eenvoudig:
Mag ons nie net ruimte maak om weg te breek van ons normale roetines nie, maar doelbewus ruimte skep waarin nuwe groei kan wortelskiet — in ons gedagtes, ons harte, ons verhoudings, ons werk, en in elke gebied van ons menswees.

Soms is die radikaalste daad van vryheid bloot om lank genoeg stil te word om ons respons te kies… en toe te laat dat ons (of ’n hoër krag) ons lei na daardie wye, oop plek waar ons werklik kan asemhaal en floreer.

Watter ruimte het jy vandag nodig om te skep sodat groei en vryheid in jou lewe kan ontluik?
Ek sal graag jou gedagtes in die kommentaar lees.

Die waarde van joernaalskryf.

Baie dankie Lizelle De Bruin van dit was 'n voorreg om met jou oor joernaalskryf te kon gesels.

Potgooi – RSG FM

What if you've been walking in circles and didn't know it?

Same patterns. Same struggles. Same stuck places.
It's hard to see when you're inside it. There's movement. There's effort. It feels like you're going somewhere.
But then January comes again. And you're making the same resolutions you made last year. And the year before.

It's not a lack of willpower.
It's a lack of direction.

The golden spiral looks like a circle, but there's one difference: It never returns to the same place. Each curve expands. Each pass takes you further. Circles repeat. Spirals grow.

The question isn't whether you're moving. It's whether you're moving forward or just around.

We're already in February.

What looks different this year from last year in your journey to a higher self?

I'd love to hear. Share in the comments.

The blind men and the elephant.

One touches the trunk: "It's a snake."
One touches the leg: "It's a tree."
One touches the ear: "It's a fan."

Each one is confident. Each one is partially right. Each one is missing the whole.
This is what fragmented self-improvement looks like.
Gratitude journals. Habit trackers. Goal-setting worksheets. Emotion dumps.
Pieces everywhere. No integration.

Journaling: Laboratory for Life isn't another fragment to add to your collection. It's a developmental approach that brings your emotions, thoughts, experiences, habits, and goals together into one coherent practice.

Because growth doesn't come from more pieces. It comes from seeing the whole elephant.

🔗 English: https://www.futuresharp.co/course/journaling-a-laboratory-for-life
🔗 Afrikaans: https://www.futuresharp.co/course/joernaalskryf-laboratorium-vir-lewe

Self-investment is self-improvement.

Jim Rohn knew this. He built his philosophy around one idea: your outer world reflects your inner development. So invest in yourself. Your time. Your money. Your energy.

But here's what I've learned as an educational psychologist:
Consumption alone doesn't create change. You can read a hundred books and still feel stuck.

The difference? Integration. Reflection. A practice that helps you become, not just consume.

That's what Journaling: Laboratory for Life offers.
A space to do the inner work that makes everything else stick.

Your growth is worth investing in.

🔗 English: https://www.futuresharp.co/course/journaling-a-laboratory-for-life
🔗 Afrikaans: https://www.futuresharp.co/course/joernaalskryf-laboratorium-vir-lewe

🐢 vs 🐇 ....We all know who won that race.

Yet when it comes to personal growth, most of us are still running like the hare, chasing quick fixes, life hacks, and visible results.

I've spent years helping people understand that real development isn't a sprint. It's a slow unfolding.

That's why I developed Journalling: Laboratory for Life, a journaling course built on the idea that growth comes through consistency and integration, not intensity and performance.

If you're tired of self-help that leaves you burned out and still searching, this might be what you've been looking for.

Message me to find out more 💚

Why journaling works, and why it often doesn't.

The research on journaling is clear: expressive writing reduces stress, improves self-awareness, and supports emotional regulation. Clinicians know this. But how often do we recommend journaling to clients, only to hear a few weeks later that they "tried it but couldn't stick with it"?

The problem isn't motivation. Its structure.

Most people approach journaling as a free-form activity: write what you feel, whenever you feel like it. That works for some. For many, it becomes another abandoned self-improvement project.

When I developed "Journaling: Laboratory for Life", I designed it as a tool that mental health professionals can recommend with confidence. It's a mastery-based course with 46 modules across six progressive levels, what I call "Inner Rooms", moving from awareness to meaning-making, from emotional regulation to identity, from intentionality to flourishing.

The course is grounded in educational psychology, neuroscience, and developmental theory. It emphasises handwriting, not because I'm nostalgic, but because the research on cognitive processing and emotional integration supports it.

It's not therapy. It's a structured complement to therapy, something clients can work through at their own pace, between sessions or after discharge.

If you're looking for something concrete to recommend to clients who would benefit from ongoing reflective practice, I'd welcome the conversation.

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