Handwriting practice & mental training

Like you perhaps, I got to know handwriting and letters at the tender age of six. For me, it was a confronting experience at the time. Because the letters, as I learned them in cursive at school, literally went against the grain. The way I was supposed to swing them felt wrong. Another key experience followed a year and a half later.

With an excellent high school diploma in hand and determined to serve people's health, I began to study medicine and worked as a nurses' assistant on night and weekend shifts. Through being in contact with patients and their families, I realized that it is regularly the circumstances that make people ill and that health is more than just physical health. So what should I study to understand people's circumstances? I decided to study law. After successfully passing my first state examination, I moved from Hamburg, the gateway to the world, to New Zealand, where I earned an LLM in International Environmental Law at the University of Auckland. For my legal clerkship and second state examination I returned to Hamburg. But my thirst to get to know the world, people and life in other cultures was far from quenched. For 15 years, I lived with my then husband and later two sons in numerous countries and different cultures and worked as a qualified mediator: New Zealand, Ethiopia, South Africa, Rwanda, Australia, most recently in Myanmar, where I worked for the UN. In 2012, the letters, which I had firmly repressed until then and had written as well as possible when necessary, but nevertheless reluctantly, went on the barricades. Born out of necessity, I discovered the powerful effect of my hands on my brain and the power of letters.

The world is still my oyster, but Germany is home. Back in Germany, I became a defense attorney. A turbocharge in getting to know the circumstances of people. I was a defence attorney with heart and soul however serving them to grow did not take center stage. I focused on what was dear to my heart: serving people's health and supporting people in the best possible way to realize their full potential so that they, in turn, can give their best.

By now, it had become even clearer to me that the key lies in the mental well-being of people and in people themselves, in their very own inner strength. Through decades of practicing Ashtanga yoga and meditation, I had learned how the body and mind interact, how mindfulness plays a vital role, yet the ultimate power lies within the subconscious. I obtained the license as Heilpraktikerin for Psychotherapy and learned excellent tools to support people with minimally invasive therapeutic work, to optimally free themselves from mental stress, which regularly accompanies physical illnesses, and to support them as effectively as possible as a mental trainer. Writing by hand, forming letters, is an invaluable resource. Because not only do we grasp life with our hands, by writing with our hands and forming letters in a clear and constructive way we also program our brain and can seize what we want.

At Love Handwriting we love to show you how!