Everything looks fine. Something doesn’t feel right.
Open the ones below that sound like you.
A lot in your life runs well, and it has for a while. Still, not much is headed anywhere new. Every time you think about changing something, a sensible reason shows up to wait a little longer, and the waiting has turned into the plan.
The week asks too much, and the weeks after it don’t look any calmer. There’s a lot resting on you, and somewhere in the middle of it you’ve stopped feeling like the person steering. So some part of you stays on guard, even when nothing in particular is happening.
Maybe the job is genuinely good, which makes leaving tough to justify. Maybe the meaning has gone out of it, or something about the place wears you down, and anything else is hard to picture from here. However it is, the question has been with you longer than you expected, and it deserves a real look.
You know quite clearly what you don’t want anymore. What you do want is harder to name, and pushing on without that gets tiring. Some days you wonder what all of it is adding up to, and the honest answer is that you’re not sure yet. That’s a fair starting point.
The pull that used to get you moving hasn’t been around much lately, and right now it’s discipline that keeps everything going. Things you normally look forward to can feel like items to get through, and most of it costs more effort than before. It happens so gradually that you can’t really say when it started.
Your head keeps working long after the day is done. Even small choices can take up more space than they should, and rest doesn’t really feel like rest. Bigger decisions drag on for weeks, collecting opinions and research and second thoughts, and even with all of that, feeling sure stays out of reach.
Life works fine, and the days have started to look identical. Your routine has a fixed shape by now, work and home and errands and sleep, and it mostly runs without asking you anything. You rolled into this rhythm more than you chose it, and it would carry on like this for years.
The last change really did feel different at the beginning, and lighter too. Then the old heaviness settled back in, the way it had before. You suspect the next change on its own might go the same way, and lately that thought has been getting louder.
You say yes before you’ve had a chance to feel whether you mean it, and often only notice afterwards what you would have preferred. People know you as easygoing and always up for things, and keeping it that way takes time and energy. Your own wants haven’t gone anywhere, they just don’t get much of a say.
Nothing is technically wrong, and that’s exactly what makes it hard to explain. Sometimes it feels like being behind where you hoped to be. Sometimes it’s more like not quite being enough, or having less left for everything than before. There’s no single thing to point at, and it’s real all the same. Not having words for it yet is normal, and it counts anyway.
If you found yourself in any of these, it doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. It usually means you’ve outgrown what used to work, and something in you already knows it.
The feeling keeps coming back for a reason.
When something feels off, you do what most people do: you fix it. A new job, a better routine, a holiday, another podcast. Each fix helps for a while. Then the feeling comes back, right in the middle of the life you upgraded.
Underneath, it’s a mix. Ways of thinking, choosing, and coping you built years ago, still running on their own. Expectations you picked up along the way: what a good life should look like, what you should have reached by now. And some fear: of choosing wrong, of falling behind, of letting people down. The fixes change what’s around that mix. The mix itself stays, and so does the feeling.
A fresh start gives you something to do about the feeling, and doing is what you’re good at. Sometimes it’s even the right call. It just doesn’t change what you bring with you, and three months in, the same feeling is waiting.
You’ve read the books and listened to the podcasts. You could probably name the whole thing by now. Understanding feels like progress, and that’s exactly why it’s a comfortable place to hide: as long as you’re explaining it, you don’t have to feel it.
This is where I come in. I’m a thinking partner: neutral, outside your head, trained to ask the questions that are hard to ask yourself. Your partner, your friends, your family: their care is real, and it’s exactly why they can’t be neutral. They’re inside the story. I’m not. With me you can say the unfinished thing out loud: the fear you haven’t told anyone, the rule you’ve been following without noticing. No judgment, and no rush to fix you. I ask, I listen, and I hold the thread until what you actually want gets clear. The only side I take is yours. People often hear themselves think, properly, for the first time in years. That’s what a conversation with me is.
What people walk away with.
Over a few months, this is what tends to change.
Make the choice you’ve been circling for months, and feel at peace with it.
Trust your own decisions instead of overthinking every one.
Close the thirty tabs in your head and hear yourself think.
A rough week stays a rough week, instead of flooding everything else.
Choose your next chapter on purpose, instead of drifting into it.
Stop pinning your hopes on the next job to change how you feel.
Get your time and your energy back.
Say no when you mean it.
Stop being one person at work and another at home. Just be one.
Feel present in your own life again.
You tried different things. The feeling stayed.This is where that changes
It starts with one conversation.
Coaching with me is a structured, honest conversation with a thinking partner who’s fully on your side. You bring what’s on your mind. Some people expect a coach to hand them answers. I work the other way around: my expertise is asking the questions that get the answers out of you. An answer you reach yourself is true to who you are, and it carries a weight advice never will. When the answer is yours, you don’t need convincing. You just move.
A first conversation
A relaxed, free 30-minute talk. You talk, I listen and ask, and we both feel whether it’s a fit. Most people leave with more clarity than they came in with. Everything starts here.
Free · nothing to prepare
Between Chapters
When it’s a yes on both sides, we begin. Nine sessions across three months, built around what you bring. Expect real questions, a few surprises, and the relief of finally saying things out loud. Everything included is just below.
The program
You move again
You catch the loop before it catches you. Decisions get lighter, because you trust yourself again. And instead of running on autopilot, you’re actually here, choosing the direction.
What stays with you
Between Chapters
One program · Three months · Built around you
It holds everything I’ve learned throughout the years, adapted to each person I work with.
1 discovery session of 90 minutes, to map where you are and what you actually want
8 sessions of 60 minutes, weekly at first, then every two or three weeks
WhatsApp and email access to me between sessions
Reflection prompts between sessions, when they serve you
Optional accountability, if it helps you follow through
Online, in English, wherever you are
About the investment. The price isn’t listed on the website. I work with a few clients at a time, and I’m selective about who I take on. I’d rather you decide from a real conversation than from a number on a page. So that’s where we start: a first conversation, where we both find out if it’s a fit. If it is, we go through the investment together, in full detail, before you decide anything.
No account, no card. Pick a time and the video link arrives by email.
Inside the sessions
No two sessions look the same, and serious doesn’t mean heavy: most people leave with more energy than they came in with. Three ways a session might start:
Some sessions start from what matters to you: what gives you energy, what drains it, what a good life means in your words. Decisions get easier when they have something to stand on.
Some sessions start with how you’re actually doing, underneath the “I’m fine” you give everyone else: the stress and anxiety that build up before a new work week, the restlessness you can’t explain. We slow down and take it seriously, instead of pushing through another week.
Some start from a stuck point: a decision you keep circling, a story you’ve been telling yourself for years. We walk around it together until you can see it from the outside. That’s usually where the choice appears.
People who stopped circling and moved on.
Before coaching, I doubted every decision I made. I learned how to trust myself again. The sessions made me feel fully seen, and the questions stayed with me long after. I now have clarity on my next steps and feel lighter than I have in years.
I was stuck in work that didn’t align with me, and deep down I knew something had to change. Michel has a way of asking questions that go straight to the heart, and it helped me face decisions I’d been avoiding for years. Within weeks, I felt ready to take a step I’d put off for so long. His calmness and directness gave me the courage to move towards a life that finally feels authentic.
I felt like I was running on autopilot, always busy but never satisfied. Coaching helped me slow down, untangle my thoughts, and make the right choices. I’ve started saying no to what drains me and yes to what truly matters. The shift has been life changing.
Michel has a very calming and reassuring presence. He’s empathic and knowledgeable, and his mantra ‘You have a choice’ really struck a chord with me. He listens without judgment and asks powerful, thought-provoking questions. Through the sessions, it became clear that my limiting beliefs were holding me back. He questioned these and helped me see a clearer perspective on things. Each session left me feeling clearer, lighter, and more confident. Highly recommend 10/10.
Deciding to work with Michel was one of the best decisions I’ve ever taken, in a moment when I felt very lost. I finally made the time to prioritise myself, my wishes and think about how I want to live my life and what is important for me. Michel has been such an infinite source of support and encouragement, asking questions that led me to get to know myself so much better. I notice such a great difference in the way I show up and relate to myself with much more compassion since my sessions with Michel. I was reminded of my strength, compassion and kindness through working with Michel.
Working with Michel has helped me break free from overthinking and unlock a new level of confidence and clarity, transforming how I approach challenges by replacing negativity with purpose and progress.
The journey with Michel has been amazing, better than I ever imagined. I’ve had the chance to work with several coaches, and I can say with complete honesty that Michel has truly found his calling.
If any of this sounds like where you are, start where they started.
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People aren’t broken. They’ve just outgrown the old ways of coping.
A lot of the people I work with are the ones everyone else leans on. They’re so good at holding it together that they rarely get heard themselves. This is that chance. Somewhere you can say what’s really going on and actually be listened to, with no judgment and no rush to fix you. You stop being alone with it.
From the outside I was fine on paper, and inside I was off. At 24 I burned out working in luxury hotels in Dubai, and for years after I treated that as a problem the next job would fix. New industry, new city, new title, across hospitality, aviation, online travel, and SaaS, where my corporate years ended as a Senior Customer Success Manager. It was never the job.
So I stopped looking outward and started looking underneath. I’m now a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and this is all I do.
More about me →Professional standards
Held to a real standard.
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)Trained through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), widely considered the gold standard of coach training.
ICF Code of EthicsI follow the International Coaching Federation’s Code of Ethics: confidentiality, clear boundaries, and the highest ethical bar in the profession.
Private and confidentialWhat you bring stays between us.
Based in AmsterdamSessions online, in English, wherever you are.
If you like evidence before you trust something, I’m the same. Coaching has real research behind it: a method, studied properly, shown to work.
Read the research →Questions
The things people usually ask.
A relaxed 30-minute talk. Free, online, and nothing to prepare. You talk, I listen and ask a few powerful questions. Most people leave clearer than they arrived, able to put the thing they’ve been circling into one sentence. By the end, we both know if it’s a fit. The loop you keep turning over rarely loosens on its own, and thirty minutes is usually enough to start seeing it differently.
This is a different kind of conversation. Your partner, your friends, your family, they love you, and that love comes with a stake in the answer. Their hopes for you, sometimes their worries, shape what they tell you. A lot of what we call advice is really someone handing you their perspective, and it doesn’t always fit your life.
I don’t have that stake. I’m neutral, outside the story, trained to ask instead of tell. With me you can say the messy, unfinished version, the one you’d never risk with someone whose opinion of you matters. No shame, no judgment, and no feelings to manage but your own. We look at it together, and no relationship is on the line while you do. This is your space, and the only side I take is yours.
Neither. And the difference matters, especially if part of you thinks the fix is a new job.
Career coaching mostly works on the symptom. It helps you land the next role, fast, and that’s the right tool when what you want is more money or a different title. Useful work. It tends to fix the surface, though, and leave the cause running underneath.
What I work on is why the role stopped feeling right in the first place, and why that keeps happening no matter where you go. Some people I work with realize they’d rather stay and reshape the job they already have. Others leave and find something that fits better. A few step out of corporate altogether and build their own thing. I don’t steer you toward any of them. I’m the thinking partner beside you while you find the direction, and the choice that’s actually yours. No CV reviews, no interview prep. That part really is career coaching, and it isn’t what I do.
Advice is a different thing again. The moment a coach tells you what to do, that’s mentoring or consulting, and it comes filtered through their life and their patterns, not yours. What’s right for me could be wrong for you, and the reverse. So I won’t hand you my answers. The one that holds is the one you reach yourself, because you’re the one who has to live it. Nobody is coming to save you. You also don’t need saving, nothing about you is broken. What you need is a clearer look at your own situation, and someone on your side while you get there.
Often, yes. Many of my clients get their employer to cover coaching through a professional development budget. Worth checking before our first call. I’m happy to share a proposal and an email template you can use to send the request.
Yes. What you share stays between us, except where I’m required by law to disclose it, or where there’s a serious risk of harm. I hold to the ICF Code of Ethics, the International Coaching Federation’s standard and the highest ethical bar in the profession, and confidentiality is central to it. That’s part of what makes this a place where you can finally say the real thing out loud.
Is this it?
You did everything right, so why doesn’t it feel right? One honest conversation is a good place to find out.
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