Psychic, I am not

Psychic, I am not

When I was about four or five years old, I heard angels singing. I was aware of voices around me that didn’t belong to anyone in the room, so I insisted these voices must have belonged to angels. My mother became aware of my hyper-sensitivity and didn’t laugh when I told her what I heard….

Where are you from?

Where are you from?

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…

HEALING FOR GERMAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE IN AMERICA

HEALING FOR GERMAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE IN AMERICA

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…

What do you do?

What do you do?

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…

Avocado Blog

Avocado Blog

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…

Weight-loss program

Weight-loss program

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…