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Christijan Robert Broerse

Christijan Robert Broerse

With Two Weeks Left to Live…Sixteen Years Ago

Upon completing my narrative non-fiction manuscript, From the Jaws of the Lion, rereading and revising in words the worst years of my life…

Feb 12, 2019

With Two Weeks Left to Live…Sixteen Years Ago

Feb 12, 2019

Christijan Robert Broerse

A Threat to Present and Future Healing — Identifying with One’s Illness

During the worst and earliest years of dealing with and healing myself of Ulcerative Colitis, I became caught up in a tragic and…

Dec 30, 2018

A Threat to Present and Future Healing — Identifying with One’s Illness

Dec 30, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

Eluding the lure of digital cheerleaders

Most mornings for the last two years I used to wake up and check my Flipboard and read over the latest articles gathered across the web…

Jul 14, 2018

Eluding the lure of digital cheerleaders

Jul 14, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

Adrift in thoughts concerning Edward Hopper’s The Nighthawks

The Nighthawk — On the website of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, the definition of the ‘nighthawk’ is the thought that continually…

Jun 24, 2018

Adrift in thoughts concerning Edward Hopper’s The Nighthawks

Jun 24, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

Allegory of the helm and helmsman: the self-as-body’s journey forward in the storm

I don’t believe in cures. I don’t believe in ‘magic bullets’.

Jun 23, 2018

Allegory of the helm and helmsman: the self-as-body’s journey forward in the storm

Jun 23, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

A plea for pardon: redemptive music in The Marriage of Figaro

Immortal Mozart! You to whom I owe everything … you to whom I owe that I did not go through life without encountering something that could…

Jun 21, 2018

A plea for pardon: redemptive music in The Marriage of Figaro

Jun 21, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

My credo: three healing tenets to assist in the overcoming of ulcerative colitis

I have been recently asked to select and consolidate my main approach to healing and overcoming ulcerative colitis. Though I would not…

Jun 19, 2018

My credo: three healing tenets to assist in the overcoming of ulcerative colitis

Jun 19, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

Autobiographical etymologies of illness or towards the third healing question

Growing up, I loved listening to the Dutch in my grandparent’s household. As a child, sitting on the couch amidst the back forth between my…

Jun 18, 2018

Autobiographical etymologies of illness or towards the third healing question

Jun 18, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

After the meditation — a dialogue from a spring evening fourteen years ago

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight — Dylan Thomas

Jun 16, 2018

After the meditation — a dialogue from a spring evening fourteen years ago

Jun 16, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

The illness that is named and the name that haunts, that perplexes hope

It is a mystery perplexing us before. We get the name and fancy we understand something more than we did before; but in truth we are more…

Jun 16, 2018

The illness that is named and the name that haunts, that perplexes hope

Jun 16, 2018

Christijan Robert Broerse

Christijan Robert Broerse

Writer. Poet. Art lover. Successful Self-healer of Ulcerative Colitis. Medication free since 2004. Adhering to no diet. English Trainer in Leipzig, East Germany

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