Rock Star Take On THE HOLIDAYS | The New Rock Star Channel (new video)

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Rock Star Take On THE HOLIDAYS
| The New Rock Star Channel
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The New Rock Star Channel is back!
With a new format:
– 10 minute video
– no preparation

This week, the twenty-first video.
A Rock Star Take On THE HOLIDAYS

video recorded Thursday 18 December 2025

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In this video;

1. We’re back! 00:00
With a Rock Star Take on THE HOLIDAYS
Because it’s the final week of the year, and the final video of 2025.

2. Christmas in The Netherlands 00:17
We have 2.5 days of Christmas!
And I have such vivid memories of when those days were booked with back-to-back family gatherings.

3. The Most Creative Time of the Year 02:45
For me, the holidays have ended up being this creative spree.
But it’s not just me;
Everybody is so creative.
Making special dishes or multi-course dinners;
Decorating the house, organizing gatherings.
The holidays are collectively our most creative time of the year.

4. New Year’s Day 04:38
Special mention for January 1st, which is my favorite day of the year!

7. The Rock Star Take on THE HOLIDAYS 05:10
It’s the only time where it’s not “just you” who is creative.

Everybody gets more creative around this time of the year.

8. Year wrap up 07:36
I have been thinking about starting a new series, as well.
One tailored to CREATORS, called The CREATOR series.

At the time of recording, it was just an idea;
But I have made the decision!
I will indeed start this new series, but it will go out on the blog (not a video series)
Subscribe to:
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And I have made a decision on it

9. A New Year 08:28
The next video will be up Monday the 5th of January, so let’s choose a topic related to that.

Next stop is a Rock Star Take On
FRESH STARTS!

It will go out on this blog.
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This was the final post of 2025.
We’ll see each other after the Holiday break, on Monday January 5th, 2026.

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go to bed | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 18th in the “Lost Posts” series | 2025 12 19 + 2023 07 13 (OG)

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go to bed

Not when there is nothing more to do
And nothing left to say
But when the amount of things waiting to be expressed
Requires it.

original posted on my social media
13 July 2023

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Dec 2025

There are few moments I remember more vividly from the memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” than the moment Elizabeth Gilbert is on the bathroom floor sobbing because her marriage and life are falling apart.
For the first time in her adult life she turns to God, in prayer.

She asks God what she should do, and God answers:
“Go to bed Liz.”

Sometimes life is so overwhelming that we forget the basics of our self-care.

But it also reminds me of a quote I definitely have no recollection of where I heard it or who said it, but it is a pretty well known one.
It’s about a wisdom that you need sit for an x amount of time in meditation every day.
Except when you’re really busy:
Then it’s double.

We’re so busy solving the not-working things that come on our path, or investing in the goals we want to accomplish, dedicating entire chapters of our life to them;
That the day-to-day seems expendable.
Something we can brush aside until we have sorted all that other shit out.

Except, of course;
It isn’t.

You cannot go without sleep, or social life, or keeping your house in good shape.
Regardless of you not remembering five years from now if you attended to them or not.

But on a deeper level, it will have made all the difference if the upcoming years you live by what you know to be true in the area of self-care;
Or if you let it be overwritten by every other urgent thing.

The way I am tackling it recently, is that I dedicate just as much planning and strategy to the self-care as to the rest.

It has its own journal/ planner.
It’s own daily moment of reflection of how the past 24 hours went and what can be improved.

It’s the pillar that says:
You are more than just your work.

You are still human.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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Holiday break incoming!
This Monday, 22 December, you receive one last post.
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Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
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Allegiance | 2025 12 16 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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For me, this year has been about sprints of growth, lightbulb moments, two friendships that deepened, and both through entirely different routes.

It has been about two friends and one professional dropping out of connection, and wondering if they would miss me if I no longer contacted them or be relieved.

It has been about the most important conversation of the past decade taking place, just when I’d given up.

It has been about a realization that I really trust God will keep me alive to do my work.
Or not, and be granted an early exit out of here.
I expect it will feel like a Wednesday afternoon from my childhood, when school finished early.

Yet whether I die at 104 or earlier, I am prepared to do it alone.
Since I figured that one out, the other pieces have been falling into place effortlessly.

I no longer need to think as much, life is easier. Even for the ones who take their distance, I will never force them to deal with me, in this new state.

Being unwilling to water myself down or to sugarcoat things;
No longer investing copious amounts of time to begin with;
Of course that has social consequences.
As it bloody hell should.

But I had not thought about how this works for concepts like allegiance and loyalty.
The idea of going the extra mile and showing up when things get difficult.

With whom do you side, when you no longer supply the social glue of superficiality?
Where does it still gel?

Who can count on my allegiance, and vice versa on whose allegiance can I count?

My answer is I would look for character, moral boundaries, and faith in a higher power.
Which can also be the higher Self.

Before we stand shoulder to shoulder, I need to know theirs will hold.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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The next episode of
That ONE Book (start at any page)
will be posted after the Holiday break, at Tuesday January 6th 2026.

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I’m going for writing 365 chapters over the course of 9 years, and then bring it to print.
You can read all posts in this series here.

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Legacy | Share Your Work 2025 12 15

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The most difficult part about being a creator is the trail of work it leaves behind. It has been my achilles heel since the 90s where I dropped out of photography academy because I found the bulk of prints and negatives just overwhelming.

Maybe if we’d spent the first 6 months of training to becoming proper archivists, I would have stayed.
But I left, and when I picked up my creativity a decade later as a writer, I was aware that one of the big perks was that I didn’t create so much stuff.

Not realizing that by now, I would not just face three decades of emails, and four decades of paper agendas – which would have grown regardless if I became a writer or not –
But also countless notebooks, logbooks, workbooks and always several diaries at the same time.
And none of those materials get full;
They get abandoned.

And then there’s the digital legacy of by now thousands of pieces of content, which I have to either bring to print or let them float in cyberspace.
And more Word files that never saw the light of day.

Creation is the easy part.
What to do with it later on, the difficult one.

And looking at the past for wisdom does not make it easier.

Nijmegen is the city where the Lymborch Brothers were born, and they became painters of miniatures.
They quickly made it to the highest levels, working for French nobility, including sharing their table and living at the court.

Yet their work disappeared, and was not rediscovered until hundreds of years later.
Stored so safely, it had risked vanishing from the face of the earth.

The diarist Anais Nin, with whose work I identify most, carried her diaries with her on a transatlantic move, but didn’t publish them until she was in her 60s.
And her erotica, the other ace up her sleeve, was still in the process of being published when she died.

Van Gogh’s work did not sell until after his death.
He never knew his legacy was secure.

Maybe the common wisdom is there is no way to plan it.
You have to let go of the legacy, and focus on the art you’re here to create.

Today.

~Suzanne Beenackers
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do it no matter what | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 17th in the “Lost Posts” series | 2025 12 12 + 2023 07 12 (OG)

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do it no matter what

What is the one thing that you know will change your life, if you would commit to doing it every day?

original posted on my social media
12 July 2023

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Dec 2025

For seven full years, I followed the same mentor. She had a change of direction, distancing herself from the work she created when I followed her. Yet if anything my connection to that same work has grown even stronger over time.

It reminds me of my fondness for romantic relationships where there is a borderline insurmountable distance between us.
I have been a fan from male idols since I was a teen. But in my case, this was not a phase but an early sign of my preferred relationship style;
Distance will be mandatory.

And it can be the only element, meaning “we” can have only the distance and not the relationship, as was obviously the case with Jon Bongiovi and Axl Rose, who were my teen idols.
My love blooms in the space between us.

So when the mentor created this distance, the space she left behind excited me.
This was now mine to fill.

It’s been “years” without her *) -quotation marks since she never left my thoughts and I kept studying her work – but it is not until now that I start to see the logic, the brilliance, the deceptively simple principles that were the rock solid foundation under her work.

A set of them, although she never said any of these out loud, would be;

If “it” cannot be NOW?
If at least some action cannot be done immediately?
And if it is not something that you will ingrain and carve into your everyday reality, to be with you until the end of your days?

Then don’t do it.

In all likeliness, your life currently consists of two things:
1. The things you wanna do every day.
AND
2. The things you resent doing;
Postpone;
And then an endless list of shoulds, wants and dreams.

Only one of those two things is your purpose.
And it’s not the second.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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*) I would like to give you the name of the mentor.
This posted was written weeks ago, and I have since started studying her newer work as well, and was so warmly welcomed by her personally.
You can find her on Instagram under @katrinaruth_ which is her new account.

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Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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Peace | 2025 12 09 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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The bonds of our families run deep. We share names, histories, opinions, values.
Even if we would not know our biological family, we would still share bonds.

Our blood would bind us forever, even if we grew up in different parts of the world.
DNA is the unbreakable string.

We go through hell if we’re born into the wrong families, and we receive the gift of ingrained belonging when we’re lucky.
We can create chosen families too.

But there is always a bond, as in a bondage. An unfreedom.
A shackle (a “bond”), or a price to be paid.
No relationship, whether work, or with a partner, a friend, a neighbor;
It cannot be free, by definition.

And if you want peace I invite you to start bringing more awareness there.
Ideally, to make a choice of what you are, and are not, willing to pay.
How is your integrity defined and who do you owe your loyalty?

What are your must-haves, your non-negotiables;
What are your goals in life, and the values by which you live?

Peace starts with knowing yourself, and what you stand for.
But it ripples out into the world, by you saying No to the events, the people, the communities and the life paths that undermine your peace;
And, or, would take too much of your resources to defend your peace, compared to what they contribute to your life.

Peace requires not just knowledge of the self, but also the power and the guts to defend it.
It requires for you to stand up for yourself, to think independently.
It has an element of privilege because it requires having your own resources.
To trust you will rebuild.
Or, alternatively, to risk losing them.

The allegiance.
Peace means to know what side you’re on, because it’s the side you’re always on.

Yours.

~Suzanne Beenackers
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you are an artist | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 16th in the “Lost Posts” series | 2025 12 06 + 2023 07 12 (OG)

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you are an artist

There is no shame in monetizing what you create, nor in being commercially savvy in any and all of your skills and talents.

But your calling is a different one.

original posted on my social media
12 July 2023

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Nov/Dec 2025

Today, finally, I woke up energized and excited. Because after years of following this creative calling, as described above, I am now in such smooth and easy waters.

Because I figured out WHY creativity is such a complicated calling.

The good news is:
None of it has anything to do with the art itself.
You being inspired to create something will always be the unpredictable, inefficient, vulnerable process, that demands you to show up will all your attention, and give the best of yourself.

Like slugs only eating the freshest youngest leaves (and I remember even going as far as eating only the tip of the asparagus, but I think that is myth since asparagus grows underground!);
In the same way the snail of your creativity will insist on having “only” the tip of the asparagus of your time.

And you can go feed the stalk to the rest, your creativity really doesn’t care.
Just don’t bother them with such inferior, your-attention-all-over-the-place-or-in-your-phone-crap.

Who could blame them.

However!
Aside from our creative calling clearly having impossibly high standards, being territorial and ruthlessly pushing the competition out;
It is all incredibly good news.

Because those asparagus stalks and full-grown crop your creative snail refuses to eat?
Provides excellent building blocks to build what you really need.

Systems.

This can be a business, a blog, a content planner.
A sales strategy, a job, a career, a community.

Your success, growth, and peace of mind are not in the quality of your art.

They’re in how well you’re able to build a system to deliver value;
Or on how well you are able to deliver value within already existing systems.

It’s not just the rule for artists;
This goes for everybody.

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But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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Rock Star Take On FUN | The New Rock Star Channel (new video)

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Rock Star Take On FUN
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This week, the twentieth video.
A Rock Star Take On FUN

video recorded Wednesday 26 November 2025

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In this video;

1. We’re back! 00:00
With a Rock Star Take on FUN

2. Participation 00:35
The first thing that comes to mind is;
Something is fun, if we’re allowed to engage.
We often associate fun with being a consumer, in the sense that the entertainment is created by someone else.

But the more we participate, prepare, anticipate and interact, the bigger the fun.

3. We Will Rock You 04:25
The Queen song is a great example of how more engagement (also in your own day-to-day activities) means more fun.

4. Depth, layers and meaning 05:47
The more different aspects are used to create the experience, the richer the experience, and also the more fun.
F.e. a date night where all layers of the experience of going out or having dinner, are attended to by both parties.
But even a work meeting would be so much better if we created it with intention, care, treats and lighthearted conversation topics.

5. Humor 09:19
Fun in the sense of humor, is often created by a conflict, or contrast, between two layers.
F.e. what you say is in opposition to the reality, as we can all see it.
This creates a comic effect.

Another comic effect from the contrast between layers, is when there is am expectation being a certain way;
And then providing the opposite!
So creating a reality or saying something that is the opposite of what was expected.

6. Last video of the year 10:34
The next video will be wrapping up 2025, so let’s take a video that goes with the season!

Next stop is a Rock Star Take On
HOLIDAYS!

It will go out on this blog.
So subscribe!

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Sacred Solitude | 2025 12 02 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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For years, and usually in December, I get that itch to reboot my life;
Get with the program;
Sit my ass down;
And finally fully commit to that one book, that I always vow I will one day read properly.

Not because I want to honor the author or to be in-the-know. Nor to up my credibility as a whatever, No.

The reason I feel it is so important, is to get my shit together by finally reading this thing cover-to-cover, make it my bible, quote it and to live by it every word, is because I know it will save my life.
And I’m already on my way to my book shelves before I get smacked over the head with the realization that this book does not exist.

Sure, I own books that are close to it, but they are not the same thing as “The Book”.
The Book That Does Not Exist then, apparently.

It is shocking how this book is so vividly present in my imagination, that I keep “returning to it”.
Except there is obviously nothing to return to.

I came to realize this book is in fact mine to write.
In my mind I have called it “The” One Book, referring to that it should be the only one you need.
And I’ve called it “That” One Book, in the brief moments I assumed it was already written by someone else, and all I needed to do was get to the shelves and fetch it.

My dream for this book was that its chapters should be short and with a clear title.
Reading it should be more about the dedicated routine of reading itself, than about the content.

May every chapter represent 5 minutes of your life, spent in sacred solitude.

Maybe you will light a candle or keep a journal on hand. But there won’t be any questions or assignments.

This book should be filled with chapters that bring closure.
And offer peace.

 

~Suzanne Beenackers
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Suddenly all the stories were about Sinterklaas | Share Your Work 2025 12 01

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“Even if I was invited, I would decline.”

There was one friend who understood the kind of investment Sinterklaas in my family, actually entailed.
And that it wasn’t for the faint at heart.

The celebrations have been passed on to the next generation, and I am no longer included.
I used to wonder why I didn’t miss it, since it had been the highlight of my year.

But before I elaborate it’s probably a good idea to explain the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas.

Sinterklaas is pretty much just like Christmas celebrations, where children get their presents straight from The Man Himself.
But here it’s 5 December, instead of the 25th.

And Dutch children get rhymes with their presents, and “surprises’ which is hand-crafted themed-packaging.

F.e. if you get tickets to a soccer match, you may get a “surprise” in the form of an old soccer ball, and the tickets are hid inside.

However, it is not just a Children’s fest as many adult friend groups or extended families can also have a Sinterklaas party.
They buy presents for each other, make rhymes and surprises too.

And in the case of highly competitive adults all bidding against one another who has made Sint the best rhymes and has come up with the funniest verses;
This is when Sinterklaas-night can become the artistic highlight of the year.
And in our case, it did.

The work you put in was just as rewarding as the night itself.

Every year I made somewhere between 20 and 30 presents, beautifully wrapped and all with a rhyme.
And every year I had no idea how I would get it done.
It was a lot!
But it was so incredibly rewarding.

Yet, I never missed it once it stopped. By then, my creative energy had already found its way into my writing.
52 weeks a year.

This year I even started with a content calendar, which is a production schedule.
By now I create 5 pieces of content per week, for different accounts.

It’s like creating 5 different gifts, and I always fear I started too late and it won’t get done.
But it always does.

As if Sinterklaas still gives it a blessing.


~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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