I have been meaning to write a book for a while, and I even started. But then my laptop died.

I somehow couldn’t quite find the motivation to start again. Writing in an in-depth way about my life takes courage and vulnerability and allowing myself to be seen in what feels often very unconventional ways. Then I came across Marco Robinson and the Start Over Book Series. What I loved about it most is that it unites many people on very different paths and that the stories offer such deeply inspiring, vulnerable, unique and relatable stories. I was really excited to be accepted into such a far reaching co-creative project. I also really enjoyed meeting quite a few of the co-authors at the first Start Over Speaker Tour event in London beginning of May.

In a time where there is so much external pressure to just be a spoke in a wheel and a functioning consumer, supposedly meant to find value in rather fleeting things in life, at a time where conflict and disconnection and superficiality seems so incredibly rampant, the start over book series really hits a nerve. How many of us have hidden their remarkable stories away? In respect of a deeper need for a greater humanity to emerge, beginning to really tell ones’ stories and to really begin to listen to one another is a great starting point for a world of mutual understanding and the shared knowledge that really that there is more in our struggles we have in common than what separates us.