Cacao Blog

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone" is written on a postcard above my bed. Actually, it was just a "placeholder" in a picture frame that I bought from a well-known drugstore chain. Somehow, this placeholder kept its place and has been giving me something to think about ever since. And the more I think about it, the more vague it becomes. Could it be that this zone is not a clearly defined area at all, but rather fluid? I feel that it is precisely the challenges that life presents to me (or alternatively I present to myself)...

That's a bold question, because I would find it difficult to answer it myself. For a few weeks now, a sense of calm, trust and happiness have crept into my life. I feel like I am being held in my essence. Life feels so optional, so free, so vast. Just like these lines here! As you may have noticed, it has been very quiet on social media over the last week. Suspiciously quiet, if you ask me. Unusual for me! For a long time, I felt the underlying pressure to keep up, to show myself, to achieve something. Perhaps you...

Today I write with devotion. Devotion to life. Because it carries me, nourishes me, breathes me and shines through me. I have often written to process, to release, to reflect. Today there is no need for reflection. Today I don't need anything. And if I need something, it's already there. Right here, where I am standing. I can take it, turn it and twist it. I can grasp it, pay attention to it. I don't need to grab it. It can just be. Content with myself, with those I love. Content to be where I am today. As I welcome...

Today I write to write. Today I live to live. Today I breathe to breathe. Today I love to love. And today I die to die. My heart opens again to the world, its love and pain. The sweet pain that arises when I am vulnerable. When tears bleed. When I flood my being with life. It opens to the beauty that may seem horrible tomorrow. To the flower that wilts before my eyes. I let myself fall into the arms of the goddess, I surrender myself, at the foundation of all being. My tail flutters firmly anchored in the...

If you let go, your hands are free. Or something like that. In this video I show how the (spirit of) cocoa helps me to let go, to trust and to relax. It is part of a multi-part series that I created in nature with Beate (@groetsch.beate). I'm finally getting around to sharing this series with you bit by bit. This is also an exciting process of letting go for me. My last milestone in this area was, as you may have read here , my first vacation since starting the company two years ago. This showed me what it...