Vintage
These articles are written for the original Jam Kitchen blog. They are written between 2012 and 2018
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Who’s cooking?
Hi! I’m Ann-Sofi, and I’m on a quest for health, happiness and fulfillment – for me, and for you. I want to live in a world where everyone feel free to find and pursue their true interests and passions – even if it collides with their self-image based on family history, age, gender or whatever limiting beliefs that get in our way. I believe that in order to heal and thrive we have to learn how to listen to that wise inner voice of ours that is our true heart speaking – and we have to learn how to distinguish and handle all those OTHER voices in our heads that belongs to social expectations,…
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How you can find strength behind your fear
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Sorry it’s a bit messy…
I´m rebuilding the site, should be ready with it’s new fresh look in a few days 🙂
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The #1 question to ask yourself to make the best of the new year
I know it’s a lot of talk about how to have a successful new year these days. And the tips provided typically deals with the importance of setting up goals for your health or career, and how to stick with them. And I’m sure you know it all in theory. But still the same happens again and again: The commitment to your New Years Resolutions about how to improve your life, made during the inspiring influence of champagne and fireworks, starts to fade as soon as every day life kicks in again. Sure, you would like to start exercising, or eat healthier, or look for a new job, but right now…
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Are you having problems prioritizing your creative projects? Try this!
So you have a secret. A love affair. Or maybe it’s not SUPER secret – your closest friends probably know about it, maybe even your partner. But it’s nothing you would brag about at work, or tell someone you meet for the first time. In fact it’s something you hardly admit to yourself. It is, after all, a bit embarrassing to say that you have a crush on Art. No, not Garfunkel, we’re talking about the REAL Art here – painting, or making music, or acting… you know what I mean. When you where younger, you sometimes believed you could make it work. But these days you don’t get together…
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How you can find strength behind your fear
Is it possible to find strength or even peace and love hiding behind your fear? Actually yes, that´s what I discovered today, and I´m excited to tell you how! There are many kinds of fear, of course. The person who is not afraid of a raging bear will not stay alive very long. Fear is there to protect us, to make sure we don´t do anything stupid that will risk our lives. But, if you´re like most people I know, it´s not the fear of heights or wild animals that is mostly present in your life. It´s something much more subtile – very often you might not even be…
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Struggeling to find out what you want to give to the world? This question can help (it certainly helped me)
Deep down, you know there is something special you want to contribute with to this world. But somehow it’s hard to get clear around it. After all, there are so many things wrong around us – war, poverty, pollution, injustices… – and so little each one of us can do to change anything. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and shut down. Also it’s easy to question the value of the things we actually can and want to do. Self doubt and fear of being judged are no easy companions here… So how DO you find out what could be your special gift? Personally I got a lot of help from participating in…
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Why dreamers and doers desperately need each other
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Prison break for perfectionists – a first aid guide
Have you ever experienced that your ambition to do a really good job actually becomes a problem, since your fear for making mistakes forces you to spend much more time than people around you for the same task – or even blocks you from making decisions or taking action? If so, you are far from alone. I sincerely believe that perfectionism is one of the most common reasons for people to be stuck and unsatisfied, and that it causes depressions, burn-outs, and a lot of other health problems, effectively preventing a lot of people from living fulfilling lives. (if you´re not sure wheter you´re a perfectionist, first turn over to…
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Why dreamers and doers desperately need each other
You know that one about “opposites attract”? What if that is not just a cruel trick by nature, but it actually serves a purpose? Dreamers and doers, for example, often run into communication problems, ending up in despise of each other. But can they really live without one another? The last week I´ve been working on writing and sending out invitations for the workshop I will hold this summer. Since one of the lessons I´ve learned from Barbara Sher is that “isolation is the dream killer” I´ve engaged two friends to help me on this project. So before I sent out that invitation I asked them for feedback. One of…
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How to get on with your idea after a confidence crash
Did you ever experience that you got super excited over an idea, that everything felt possible and you just couldn´t stop talking about it, but then, all of a sudden, you mysteriously lost faith and started to doubt it all instead? This emotional rollercoaster is all too familiar to me – I’ve lost track on how many times I’ve gone from being filled with energy, my head bubbling with ideas about what I wanted to do, being totally speedy, waking up in the middle of the night because I had so many ideas I just needed to write down etc. to, all of a sudden, a crash. No more talking, regretting every…
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How do you know which one of your inner voices you should listen to?
When you want to live life on your own terms, there is one thing that often will cause confusion: our different inner voices. Very often, there will be one voice saying “I want to!” while at the same time, another voice is saying no. And the worst thing is, these voices change over time, so maybe when you first get an idea, it feels totally right, and you´re very exited, but when it starts to get time for action, resistance gets very powerful, telling you it´s too hard, or you´re not good enough or that it´s actually not very interesting what you decided to do. It might even tell you…
