I’ve been living in Los Angeles since 1982. It’s my home and probably the love of my life. I sacrificed a lot to be able to live here. Among many other things, I sacrificed speaking my native language. For the past 40 years, every conversation has started like this: Me: “Hello!” The other person: “Where…
Did you know that over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry? More than 10 million people in the USA speak German. For many, it is their native tongue. * I’m Evie Sullivan, certified hypnotherapist and native German speaker, originally from Vienna, Austria. For many years I was in conventional therapy. It helped me overcome childhood…
Abnehmen, mit dem Rauchen aufhören, andere Süchte bekämpfen? Das soll mit Hypnose funktionieren? Auch, wenn man gemütlich zuhause sitzt und die Therapeutin nur am Bildschirm sieht? Wir haben’s ausprobiert! Ein Blick auf die Waage… verdammt – schon wieder drei Kilos mehr! Viele, die in puncto Diäten schon viel ausprobiert haben, haben vielleicht auch schon einmal…
It was easy for me as a journalist to answer people’s unavoidable question: “What do you do?” I just told them, I’m an entertainment journalist and the US-correspondent for an Austrian publishing house. Everybody was satisfied. But what do I tell them now? The question still comes up at events and I still have to…
Robert Grant in his inspiring TED talk on “Beautiful minds are free from fear” mentions Nelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela spent 29 years in prison as a political prisoner, having done nothing wrong except expressing his ideology and philosophy. Every day while they made him chip stone, he remembered one poem by William Earnest Henley: Out…
When I first moved to California, I discovered my love for avocados. Growing up in Austria, I knew that fruit mostly from pictures in magazines or cookbooks but I couldn’t find them easily in the stores. When avocados became a staple in my kitchen in Santa Monica where I was living when I first moved…
Tim Ferris, entrepreneur and author of the bestseller “The 4-Hour Workweek” quotes in one of his weekly blogs the English poet and hymnodist William Cowper (1731-1800) who said: “I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins.” What a quote! I don’t want to get too philosophical about it, but I want to give…
