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Liberating Conversations

Today’s human life is marked by confusion, loneliness, and neglect of deeper meaning, leading to anxiety, depression, stress, and other familiar psychological struggles.

Therefore—if you…

  • feel lost,
  • suffer from anxiety or restlessness,
  • have existential questions or doubts you cannot find answers to,
  • are caught in an addiction and don’t understand what lies beneath it,
  • struggle with insomnia, fear, or experience a certain chaos in your life,
  • carry a diffuse sense of guilt,
  • live in a home with frequent conflicts, 
  • don’t quite know what is happening with you, but feel trapped in dissatisfaction or anger,
  • uncertain about your role or identity, for example, regarding gender or the demands of modern life,
  • feel sad, unmotivated, or emotionally burdened.

In short: if you feel the need to understand or free yourself from something that prevents you from living a life worth living—with a reasonable degree of authenticity and freedom—I am convinced that I can help you. Not as yet another therapist, but as a philosopher with a focus on practical wisdom.

Often, a few liberating conversations are enough. Each 50-minute session is designed to provide clear insights, practical guidance, and a renewed perspective tailored to your unique concerns. The cost is 100 euros per session. I offer online sessions only, which makes it simple and flexible to create a present and safe space—wherever you may be.

If you are ready to take a step toward greater clarity and fulfillment, reach out today. Together, we can schedule your first session and begin your journey toward the life you deserve.

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When I Am Gone

In the late spring of 2014, I left my home in Barcelona to walk in Norway for twenty days with my friend Jeppe. We planned to follow the last 300 kilometers of the pilgrim path to Trondheim, St. Olav’s Way, named after the Norwegian king who brought Christianity to Norway in ad 1033. 

I am not a religious person; I do have not faith in any of the marketed Gods but a strong belief in life. And yet, during this journey, I experienced an encounter with a muskox that I can only describe as healing, perhaps even spiritual.

Read the rest of my essay in Amethyst Review.

How Should I Live?

Before I try to give a decent answer, I would like to emphasize that I’m glad the question is personal. It refers to me, not you, or someone else. I don’t like moralizing, that is, telling other people how they should live, but I do like the element of self-knowledge and care that this question addresses.

Thus, “How should I live?” I should live a joyous life.

Life, of course, is full of both joy and sadness, suffering and pleasure. Some of these are related to individual limitations, e.g. intellectual abilities. Others are related to social or political circumstances, e.g. financial.

Still, a useful guide is to live in a way that enhances a life’s joyous moments regardless of the circumstances.

How do I do that? From the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, I’ve learned that we always have the thoughts and feelings that we deserve. At first this can seem brutally arrogant, but what he aims at is that our mental state depends on how we relate to or approach our experiences. The challenge that we all share, regardless of setback or misfortunes, is how we become worthy of what is happening. This is not acceptance as a kind of resignation; rather, it’s an approach to life that confronts obstacles or setbacks by trying to create a new form of life that minimizes the effects of what is hindering ourselves from living freely.

Therefore, I should live as a compassionate fighter, that is, become a person that fights by exploring what a life may become. What is possible? I fight hate, discrimination, domination, violence, etc. because it kills life. And by involving myself in this fight — although I have to acknowledge my intellectual limitations – I feel better. Actually, I feel alive. And to live a joyous life is to have an intimate affair with life, to experiment, and dance with it.

I remember the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño once said that children typically are full of joy, and then he wondered why it’s so, before answering, that they are alive.

It sounds like a tautology: a joyous life is synonymous with how I should live because joy emerges through appreciation of being alive, which I accomplish by destroying  everything that seem to hinder life from flourishing, just as I create room for things that flourish. Nothing comes for free, except death.

Joy and happiness require hard work.

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