Author: Vanessa Gold

  • Structure, Sanity & Small Wins

    Structure, Sanity & Small Wins

    It’s been a hot minute since my last update (life happened, again 🤪),but I’m back—armed with spilled coffee, stray LEGO bricks underfoot, and fresh lessons about structure. Turns out, I thought I was a “Type‑A queen”… then I got married, moved to Germany, and had a baby. Plot twist: I’m more “Type‑Attempting”! The Bible reminds…

  • The Empowering Choice of Showing Up for Yourself

    The Empowering Choice of Showing Up for Yourself

    What is your idea of showing up for yourself? What comes to mind when you hear “Show up for yourself “? A lot of us hear these statements. We hear about self-love, self-care, etc. Yet a lot of us do not seek the time to really live this narrative. I for one was a culprit…

  • Navigating Suffering with Grace

    Navigating Suffering with Grace

    I believe we can collectively acknowledge that life is inevitably woven with seasons of trials. These seasons are what amplify the value of our seasons of ease. Suffering is an inescapable element of existence, with various forms of trials that demand our endurance. While unpleasant, suffering often holds profound significance. After deep reflection and personal…

  • Purpose as our state of Being

    Purpose as our state of Being

      I vividly remember the winter holiday of 2009. I was a final year student doing Accounting and my connect group leader recommended that I do a leadership course at the African Leadership Institute here in Namibia. I was very excited and driven to do the course after I received a call that I got…

  • Embracing the Cycles and Seasons of Life

    Embracing the Cycles and Seasons of Life

    These days, I’m learning so much about energy, stamina, seasons, flows, cycles, and how they relate to creativity, production, and output. As I cycle through what is required from me in order to fulfill my purpose and at the same time manage the realities of life – I have come to realize that our soul,…

  • In moments of pressure!

    In moments of pressure!

    In the last blog, I was sharing about being conscious about Life’s fragility, and days after that I was checking in with myself and felt like I am so behind schedule with many things that I had planned and this drove me into a dark place where I was no longer present and started worrying…

  • The consciousness of life’s fragility!

    The consciousness of life’s fragility!

    So much has happened in the last two years and it has affected our consciousness, so much so that we just going with the flow, ensuring our safety and survival. More than ever we can see across the globe how fragile life is – there’s a saying in our local language that translates as “you…

  • The Dawn of a New Era

    The Dawn of a New Era

    It’s another year into the a way of life we are not used to, and there are still no effective solutions to the current global pain – you’re probably wondering what the future holds when there’s a deadly pestilence moving around, devouring our lives and livelihoods, and what one does do when the future looks…