I imagine that when we are born, it is like getting on a rollercoaster. Exciting, uncertain and maybe even dangerous! A real thrill in any case. Even though we heard the psychological safety bars click...

I have been in contact with Jan from Original Beans since 2020. As a Conservation Cacao Leader , his mission is to identify and preserve the rarest and finest cocoas in the world and to...

How does it feel to be absent from what is most important right now? How does it feel not to be able to have the person at your side who is your most important point...

"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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vacation? Pah, I want to experience something! I want to see the world and try the craziest things and at the end jump down somewhere and then climb back up again backwards! That's roughly how...

The last few days have been marked by fundamental rethinking for me. As Mischa of cocoa, it seems somehow obvious what I do, namely cocoa. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that not all...