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Here’s A Side Of Me You Don’t Often See

Maria Hubmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:53:28 +0000

One thing I really enjoy is making sourdough bread in all shapes, sizes and flavours.

I could tell you that as a microbiologist I’m fascinated by the billions of microbes doing their thing.

But it’s not true.

I just like eating really good bread.

Cut in slices as thick that many people would consider the slice to be the whole loaf.
With lots of butter (you need a lot of butter when the bread is the thickness of your underarm).

And I love the soft texture of well kneaded dough.

I find it fascinating and very sensual when the initial mix of flour and water turns into a dough and then transforms into the softest material and the most delicious density and texture.

But the best part is the first 10 or 15 minutes in the oven.

I sit on the floor and watch the dough rise and slowly turn into bread.

This is followed by one of my favourite moments: I squeeze the fully baked bread and listen to it.

And then comes the next best part: ripping out a big piece of the freshly baked bread and tasting it.

Delicious!

What would people be surprised to learn about you?

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A Rule I Try To Live By

Maria Hubmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:49:22 +0000

I only hang out with people that I enjoy.

Growing up I felt obliged to be nice to people no matter if I actually wanted to be around them or not.

It wasn’t even a question I would ask myself.

There is hierarchy and you gotta respect the people older than you, the people with more education or your bosses.

If you like it or not.

After living through some painful years being around people who kept shouting at me and telling me that I’m not good enough, I changed the rules:

I don’t stay around people I don’t enjoy.

When I don’t follow this principle, I like myself less.

I feel trapped, I feel like a victim and throw an internal pity-party.

I don’t like myself in this state because I see myself as powerless.

These days I am rarely surrounded by people that drain my energy.

I can’t even think of a recent example.

You could say I’m lucky. And that you’re not that lucky because your boss drives you crazy.

I might be lucky.

And I make sure that I tell my luck where to show up.

I made a decision that I am to be treated well.

So I walk out of the room or have a serious conversation when their behaviour is not acceptable.

This is how I signal to my luck which kind of people I want to have around me.

Which principle do you live by? Let me learn from you.

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Why I don’t believe in chasing happiness

Maria Hubmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:48:08 +0000

I see many people chasing happiness. They try to find a fulfilling relationship, work towards their next promotion or plan their dream holiday.

But every search begins with the same belief:

“I don’t already have what I’m looking for.”

When you start searching for joy, you assume that you don’t have it.

You assume that it’s somewhere out there waiting to be found.

This doesn’t mean that external things can’t be enjoyable.

A holiday in Bali can be joyful.

A relationship with a loving partner can be fulfilling.

Making the next step in your career can be powerful.

It’s not about the thing that you are seeking itself, but about your relationship to them.

The trap is that the holiday or the other person becomes the REQUIREMENT for your joy.

I don’t believe joy is something you find.

I believe joy is something you create.

So stop looking for it. You can’t find it, even when you look intensely.

Joy isn’t a reward for trying really hard.

If joy is what you want to experience, let go of the trying and start CREATING joy.

Then you will realize that it’s been within you all the time.

This can be a humbling or even annoying moment, because you ask yourself why TF you have been working so hard for it in the first place.

That’s ok. Let it go and enjoy your newly created joy

Agree or disagree? Let me know.

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A Truth I Keep Returning To

Maria Hubmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:46:55 +0000

People think joy comes from avoiding painful emotions.

It doesn’t.

Joy comes from no longer being afraid to feel any emotion.

Most people suppress anger, grief, jealousy etc. not because these “negative” emotions are unbearable, but because they feel dangerous.

They believe that they lose control and don’t find their way out of these feelings any more.

So people numb them.

But emotions don’t work in isolation.

You cannot suppress pain without suppressing joy too.

The more emotionally shut down you become, the less access you have to aliveness or joy or happiness.

Joy is not feeling only the pleasant emotions, but

Joy is the capacity and willingness to feel ALL of life.

Can you relate to this or do you have a different experience?

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Why I Care So Deeply About This Work

Maria Hubmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:44:34 +0000

I made the decision to train as a coach because I wanted to help myself.

I had felt disconnected from my body and barely noticed it. Only when my coach asked me to feel my big toe did I realize how little I feel my own body. I was actually confused by her request.

How can I feel a part of my body when I don’t touch it? Preferentially step on it, just to be sure that I’m feeling the right thing.

Since this day in 2016 I’ve been on the quest of feeling myself, respecting my boundaries and creating my life according to MY desires.

Supporting other women in creating more joy, pleasure and self-love than they ever thought possible was a natural extension of my own journey.

I am deeply grateful to my own teachers, coaches and mentors and I desire to see many, many more women live in joy and pleasure.

This is why I chose to become a coach.

To see others rise.
To be in their corner when things get tough.

To hold the intensity with them.

And to celebrate the sh.t out of their joy, pleasure, embodiment, power, creativity and aliveness.

This fills me up with joy and makes me feel deeply connected with other humans.

Why does YOUR work matter to you?

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Who You’re REALLY Dealing With

Maria Hubmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:39:22 +0000

If you asked the people around me about my personality, one word would come up over and over again: joyful.

Yes, I smile a ton and bring delight to the humans I interact with, be it while working together or when they see me walking around with a subtle smile on my face.

However, what people might misunderstand about me: Even though I help people experiencing more joy, I don’t believe in positive thinking as the solution to an unhappy life.

I am a woman with many interests and have been engaged in a lot of hobbies and experiences and oftentimes I’ve been far ahead of my time.

While studying biology at the university, I’ve made my own natural cosmetics and learnt a lot about healing plants. Since then my boyfriend lovingly calls me a witch During my Erasmus year in Finland I learnt to play Texas Hold’em and got laughed at when I tried to teach my friends at home this “new” way of playing Poker. I went on to diligently learn the statistics and strategy of the game, as well as the psychology of it.

In Finland I also climbed for the first time and have been coming back to this sport for over 20 years now.

I am skilled in many sports, including Martial Arts and running, where I achieved some great personal goals.

I have decent knowledge and experience in the worlds of wine and beer, including taking part in nation-wide championships both as a brewer as well as a juror.

Many people are amazed by how much I know and have skill in.

I think it’s very easy to get reasonably good at things when you have been living for a few decades, like I have.

The not so secret trick is to stay curious and open-minded.

2 values of mine that I live with all my heart.

I am a generalist and even though I like to learn many things until I’m at an intermediate level, I also have deep knowledge and experience in biology and coaching in particular.

I believe that there is nothing I can’t learn.

But I only learn and engage in what I am passionate about.

Currently you find me bouldering in the gym and climbing on real rock, stand-up paddling on the Danube, learning about the mechanics of power, custom-painting a bamboo bike, doing archery in the forest and learning the science behind joy and how to create it more effectively.

What matters most to YOU these days?

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The best daily activity to stop feeling guilty and start loving yourself

Maria Hubmann — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 08:29:40 +0000

Has this ever happened to you? You experience a negative event–a small mistake leads to criticism from a friend or perhaps a colleague makes a negative comment. It gets lodged in your mind and you can’t stop thinking about it. You relive it over and over again. After a little while, you begin to focus on your mistake and start judging yourself. This makes you unfocused. Because you’re not paying attention, you make another mistake, which leads to a vicious cycle of judgment and negativity.

We’ve all been there. You feel trapped in negativity and don’t know how to get out. But guess what? You have the agency to decide whether events in your life are positive or negative. Positive situations are opportunities to improve and negative ones are challenges that will help you grow. It is up to you to decide how you want to frame what happens in your life.

That means you have the ability to choose where you take your life.

However, this way of thinking may seem counterintuitive. For many people, reframing negative situations into positive opportunities can be very difficult without proper guidance. The reason for this is we learn to internalize criticism as children. Childhood is about finding and exploring boundaries. Our caretakers correct our behavior when we misbehave, and so negative feedback colors our self-perception as we grow up. During this time of growth, many of us internalize that voice of authority chastising us.

When something bad happens, instead of claiming our agency and reframing it as an opportunity for growth, that voice of authority creeps in and tells us we’re wrong. As a result, we accept the negative weight of the situation thinking we’re helpless.

We all have unloving thoughts about ourselves because we have grown up being chastised and punished for mistakes, and so we begin to search for self love. However, it can be very difficult to overcome the impulse to berate ourselves. When we accept negative framing, we are accepting self-criticism instead of self-love. We thus frustrate our own need for self-love and then criticize ourselves for not loving ourselves enough. When you judge yourself for not loving yourself, you create a snowball effect of negativity and continue that pattern of self-criticism.

How can you escape this pattern of self-criticism?

First, don’t beat yourself up when something goes wrong–being hard on yourself isn’t going to motivate you but take you deeper into self-criticism. You may feel that your shame expiates your guilt, but when you act out of contrition, you still operate from the belief that you aren’t lovable or you don’t deserve love and forgiveness.

So why not try something else?

Believe it or not, getting trapped in a pattern of guilt is a choice. You can decide to forgive, accept and love yourself NOW.

Here is one activity you can do whenever you feel trapped in negativity:

Because these feelings come from dwelling on the past, the best way to break free is to bring yourself into the present. Find a quiet place, sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes. For two minutes, focus on the sensations you feel in your body. Have an itch in your right leg? Maybe your elbow is sore. Use this time to focus on all the feelings and sensations you block out throughout the day. Say them out and loud as a way to focus on them. This will bring you into the present moment.

We feel helpless when we focus on the past because we cannot change it. But the future is open. By bringing yourself into the present, you allow yourself to look to the future and create new choices for yourself. Create a future of love for yourself.

If you want to break this vicious cycle of shame, guilt and unhappiness, you can. If you decide that you are ready for a new way of living that is guided by self-love, I can help.

Message me and we’ll find out how I can help you best.

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Why mindset isn’t the holy grail

Maria Hubmann — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:19:34 +0000

When the idea of making bags out of canvas that I painted myself came to me, I knew that I had to take action on it without delay. It felt like the universe made me an offer that only stood for a few days.

So the very next day I grabbed some painted canvas leftovers from a workshop and sewed a bag. I kind of made up the cut as I went and you can totally see that ;-).

It wasn’t about beauty or perfection, but about implementation of the idea.

We can think about all aspects of a project, look at it from all angles and mentally solve any potential problem that we can think of. But when we don’t move our fingers to get started, we’d have just wasted a lot of thought on nothing. The project stays a castle in the air.

In the personal development arena there’s a lot of talk about the importance of mindset and how much you should journal, meditate and breathe.

I agree that mindset is important, however, mindset work has to come in conjunction with real world physical action to yield real world results.

In my case my mindset was

i) This is an awesome idea and I use it, thank you so much.

ii) I can sew well enough to make a prototype.

iii) I don’t give a f… what it looks like. It doesn’t need to be perfect right now, I just want to see if it works.

iv) This feels good, let’s do it right away and I’ll start with the first step and see what challenges await me to be solved later.

These thoughts helped me to take the idea and bring the necessary action to it – to make a protobag.

Had I waited to find the perfect cut or taken a bag-sewing online course, I’d still be wondering which phase of the moon is best to start a business of hand-painted bags. Is there a list for that?

I want to gently but firmly encourage you to take your ideas and run with them. Cover some ground before you worry about the next steps.

Take your bodily impulses to move seriously and get going!

Do you struggle with that? Allow yourself to be supported.

I coach women on following their desires and live a purposeful life. Are you curious aka Does your body open up to this offer? Contact me and we’ll find out if we want to coach together.

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Do you let your desires choose you?

Maria Hubmann — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 07:35:52 +0000

We don’t choose our desires, but our desires choose us.

We cannot choose to desire something else than we desire. It’s possible that we don’t like our desires for various reasons. Maybe the desire doesn’t make sense and we judge it as stupid, maybe we think it’s too big and unattainable for us, or maybe we consider the desire to be amoral and we are ashamed to have it.

When we judge and shame our desires or something else about us, we push it into the unconscious, where it continues to exist of course. The lost self as a disowned part of our personality would be an example. By pushing parts of us away, we made it much harder for us to have any conscious say about it.

Nevertheless, desires want to be fulfilled, even when we consciously don’t want that.

Have you had the experience that you have longed for something for years until you finally got it. The day came, your desire was fulfilled – and it was kind of anticlimactic?

Desires change through fulfillment, so the fastest way to get rid of a desire is to fulfill it.

Sure, some desires stay with you for years, but even they change and grow. You can’t skip the “lower” level desires to go straight to the “more grandiose” ones, just as you can’t talk yourself out of a desire. Ever tried to tell yourself that wanting neon pink sneakers with the golden stars really isn’t that important / appropriate for your age or will destroy the planet, so you better want something important?

Did it work? For me it doesn’t.

In tantra everything is sacred: peace, desire, frustration and pick sneakers.

The more you allow yourself to have the “lower” desires, the more fulfilled you will feel and the more generous you become.

What desire are you a bit ashamed of to have? Share it and you will notice that the sting of shame lessens.

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Are you trying to fix yourself, or do you choose to love yourself now?

Maria Hubmann — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:11:15 +0000

The personal development industry often centers around trying to fix people as if they were broken and needed repair.

It implies that there is a right way to think and act and that we are all doing it wrongly.
It implies that life has a goal and we need to work hard to get a glimpse at it, let alone reach it.

I disagree with this fixing mentality.

There is not one right way to live, but YOUR way to live. The more you find your own expression, the more fulfilled you will feel. How could anybody else know what’s it like to be you and what wants to be expressed in your life?

Of course there are less or more skillful habits and approaches to handle the various challenges in life and they will lead to different experiences in life. Nevertheless, you are the master of your life and choose what you want to focus on.

Trying to fix yourself is the opposite of self-love, because it tells you that you are wrong the way you are and need to improve.

You don’t need to be fixed.
You are whole already, even when you don’t see it yet.
You are worthy of love.
You can love yourself now while being unperfect.
You can even love all the things about you that you want to change. In fact, this is the fast lane to self-love and change.

Do you want somebody to hold you in your messiness, your in-between and your glory? I might be this person for you. Reach out to me to get to know each other and decide if we want to work and coach together.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

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