Books
Joyce is an inspiring speaker, coach and trainer who helps professionals and organizations improve their performance. She is an ambassador for the Usher Syndrome Foundation and author of several books on personal strength and resilience.
Inspiring writer Joyce
AVAILABLE FROM OCTOBER 20
STUCK how to Free your Mind when Everything Seems Stuck
How Free are You?
When I was a teenager, a doctor told me that I would slowly become deaf and blind. By my forties, I would be trapped in my own body, unable to hear or see the world outside.
Since then, I have been searching for freedom. And over the years I discovered: it’s not walls that hold you back, or physical disabilities. It’s the stories in your head.
In STUCK I take you along on my quest, through special conversations, sharp insights, amazing experts, truffle ceremonies, cognitive behavioral therapy, Buddhist wisdom, all kinds of challenges where I learn to let go of judgment and an unexpectedly intense encounter via Marktplaats.
This is a book about feeling, grieving, changing and choosing again. About the patterns that hold you back, the freedom you feel when you stop fighting and the richness of a life that doesn’t have to be perfect, but does have to be authentic. With theories you understand, stories that touch you and tools you can apply too.
I wrote this book for you. Because whether it’s in a body, a system or a belief: we all get STUCK sometimes.
not Hearing not Seeing not Staying Silent
When your World Becomes Dark and Silent, Do You Become that Too?
When Joyce is seventeen, a doctor tells her that she will not be of value to society. He suggests she should learn a language. “Then maybe you can translate a book someday.” That’s all there is for her, is his message.
No Longer Seeing or Hearing
Joyce knows at that moment that she suffers from the very rare Usher syndrome, which causes her hearing and vision to deteriorate progressively and will leave her deaf and blind around her forties. The diagnosis makes her feel rushed: she wants to see everything, do everything, learn everything, experience everything before her world becomes permanently dark and silent. She is in constant battle with her illness, desperately searching for a way to be happy with it, until she realizes that this is a fight she can never win. Then she begins to become convinced that she has something to tell the world. The fact that she will soon no longer be able to hear or see doesn’t have to mean that she will also stay silent.
The proceeds from Not Hearing Not Seeing Not Silent go to Usher Syndrome Foundation.
Do you want to order 20 copies or more? Send an email to info@joycederuiter.nl and we’ll arrange a nice discount with the publisher.
The Lame Leads the Blind
“a Hilarious Encouragement for Everyone in Times of Crisis”
This is a story about Niek and Joyce.
Niek has a spinal cord injury and Joyce suffers from Usher syndrome, which slowly makes her deaf and blind. These aren’t pleasant things of course, but these two can live with them. And how: as inspiring speakers they literally pack full auditoriums.
Until it Falls Silent for these Inspiring Speakers
Then the world faces the coronavirus, which makes gatherings impossible overnight. Niek and Joyce are devastated. Or rather: stuck in a walk-in closet and at the kitchen table. Their work as inspiring speakers is gone, their health is threatened, all the news is bad and hugging is no longer allowed either. Niek retreats under his blanket and Joyce reaches for the chocolate.
But after a while they can no longer suppress their innate optimism. So they search for new ways to make themselves useful and tell their story. This goes with trial and error. Niek tries singing for a while (not a good idea) and Joyce tries DIY projects (also not so good). But their search eventually leads somewhere and provides plenty of insights along the way. And this little book: a hilarious encouragement for everyone in times of crisis. #sterkercoronadoor
From every copy sold, we reserve €1.50 for charity.
What Others Say about Joyce’s Books
Joyce’s books touch, inspire and provoke thought. They are read in organizations, companies and living rooms throughout the country. From personal stories to powerful insights about adaptability and dealing with change, Joyce knows how to reach her readers. See here what readers say about her work.
Joost Van De Kamp
HR Director | Jaarbeurs
Joyce inspires from the very first second. What an example of how you can give direction to your own career or life. As a speaker, I’ve had the privilege of hearing her multiple times and every time there was that goosebumps moment again. If you want to get to work with your team, inspire them and make them think, then Joyce is the one you’re looking for.
Joost Van De Kamp
HR Director | Jaarbeurs
Joyce inspires from the very first second. What an example of how you can give direction to your own career or life. As a speaker, I’ve had the privilege of hearing her multiple times and every time there was that goosebumps moment again. If you want to get to work with your team, inspire them and make them think, then Joyce is the one you’re looking for.
Joost Van De Kamp
HR Director | Jaarbeurs
Joyce inspires from the very first second. What an example of how you can give direction to your own career or life. As a speaker, I’ve had the privilege of hearing her multiple times and every time there was that goosebumps moment again. If you want to get to work with your team, inspire them and make them think, then Joyce is the one you’re looking for.
Support a Good Cause and get a Discounted Gift for your Guests?
Joyce’s books can be easily ordered online and are available in various bookstores (always check store inventory in advance).
Are you looking for a special business or personal gift or do you want to give your organization or employees a glimpse into her world? Besides booking Joyce as an inspiring speaker, giving one of her books as a gift is a beautiful way to inspire your guests and especially activate them in the world of adaptability and resilience.
When ordering 20 copies or more, a volume discount applies.
Much Sought-After Inspiring Female Speaker
Now she is married, mother of two children, entrepreneur and much sought-after inspiring speaker. She cannot stop the encroaching darkness and silence, but she can use her story to inspire others and help them better deal with change. As a much sought-after change & mindset speaker, she takes the stage weekly for hundreds of professionals, managers, entrepreneurs and employees. During these inspiration sessions and keynotes, she holds up a mirror to them and inspires organizations about adaptability and resilience in times of change.
