First, I am a wife, mother, sister, and daughter. I am married and hold a degree in Communication and a Master’s in Philosophy & Humanities. My intellectual path has taken me to research deeply masculinity and femininity—what they are at their core, and what their role is in relationships. I am now studying the Heart, and how emotions, in balance with reason and will, can lead us to our calling.
My research has been deeply intertwined with my personal journey. When I was six years old, my parents went through a divorce—something that hurt me in ways I could not understand yet. I spent my childhood and teenage years wondering and asking myself what makes a marriage work.
Over the past years, I have navigated healing, relationships, and major life transitions, facing wounds and navigating the complicated decade of the twenties like any other young woman. One day, I decided I was done with fakeness and I wanted to be a “One Piece” person, to find true friendships, real love, and build a community with people who would stand by me for better or worse, in sickness and in health.
These experiences led me to ground my life in what I consider the only truly stable foundation: God. Along the way, I met a wonderful man, moved to the Netherlands, learned his language, got married, and became a mother.
I decided to create this space because I see a need to offer a place to ask the big questions, reflect on ordinary life, and seek the extraordinary within it.
If you feel called to ask those questions too, welcome aboard.
About me
Education
Experience
Background in Philosophy and Journalism
Bachelor’s Degree in Communication
Master’s Degree in Humanities
Thesis: “An Analysis of the Feminine and the Masculine in the Work of Alice von Hildebrand” - My academic work has focused on philosophical anthropology, particularly the metaphysical meaning of masculinity and femininity. In my master’s thesis, “An Analysis of Masculinity and Femininity in the Work of Alice von Hildebrand,” I examined whether sexual difference has an ontological foundation or is merely a social construct, and how the complementarity between man and woman is expressed in daily life, culture, and social norms. I have since continued my research by exploring the philosophical understanding of the Heart and its significance within the human person.Graduate of The Phoenix Institute, Summer Seminars on the Western Tradition, exploring the core question: “What does it mean to be human?”
Regular participant in seminars and courses on the Great Books of the Western tradition @ Pascal Institute
Fluent in Spanish and English
... en ik ben ook nederlands aan het leren.
Experience as a journalist, writer, community manager, and speaker.
Worked @ The Phoenix Institute as a community creator (in-person international summer schools for young people), helping participants forge deep, lifelong friendships and, in short, to feel at home.
Teaching assistant for world-class professors, including courses such as “Heroism Revisited: Images of the Heroic in Western Literary Tradition.”
Delivered workshops and sessions to over 200 men and women at The Heart & Reason Project.
I am a mum, which means every day I am confronted with the human condition, given the opportunity to grow in self-giving love, and experience the joy of showing a new tiny soul the world.
