Through Healthy Sense of Self, LLC, Antoinetta offers education on what can go wrong with our relationship to self and others, when, in early childhood, we are not acknowledged as the (potentially) autonomous person we are. She has developed exercises and techniques to overcome the effects of this condition.
Antoinetta Vogels was born in the Netherlands right after World War II and remembers clearly her firm decision as a little girl that she had to do something to make wars stop. It is her deepest desire to inspire people to help create a better world by working on improving their own lives. Being an accomplished bassoonist in several renowned classical orchestras in the Netherlands for eighteen years turned out to be the background Antoinetta needed to get the full understanding of her inner workings, which formed the foundation of the SoS Method. Becoming a mother was followed by the mysterious sudden onset of severe insomnia that led to early retirement from her musical career. Antoinetta’s inner journey began with the intention to determine the underlying cause of this predicament that continued to plague her for more than twenty-five years. Through continuous introspection and self-observation, Antoinetta identified behavior patterns that ultimately led to developing the Sense of Self Method.