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I am passionate about life and growth — and all the joy, pain and messiness that comes along with it. I'd best describe myself as a guide, supporting people on their journey towards themselves and towards a life truly worth living. Besides starting three businesses and being trained as a hospice worker, I spent the last 13 years coaching CEO’s and startup founders to manage their life and work.

MY STORY

My life's journey has brought me to burn-out, addiction, ADHD, procrastination and self-doubt. Much of my life was run by shame, insecurity and a thousand forms of fear. I did not understand myself, my behavior. I never really seemed to fit in (and Lord knows I tried).

Truth was: I was not able to accept myself as I was. Today I realize how these experiences are a gift, not a curse. They were necessary for me to understand what it is to be human.

The pain and personal powerlessness 'forced' me onto my spiritual path. I tried all the self-help and psychology stuff — but it never really worked.For me to become whole, I had to go inside: feeling, griefing, opening, accepting, understanding, loving. I had to connect to a Power greater than my limited self — Love, God, Spirit, Universe, whatever you want to call it. I had to, or I was lost.

By surrendering to what the pain was trying to tell me, I found powerful ways of healing I would've probably discarded otherwise.I realised how our pain and struggles are a sacred gift — a signpost that change is necessary, an opportunity to learn to trust, believe, feel, grief, intuit and stand up for my true self. Indeed, an opportunity to become wholly human.

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