My story

In 2021, in an exercise in Martha Beck’s How to Find Your Own North Star book about envisioning my most authentic self, I wrote: “I am … a healer”.

I couldn’t grasp what that would even look like, but it felt right on a level the mind can’t understand.

The fact that I was reading How to Find Your Own North Star shows that I was feeling lost. I was in a phase that some people call spiritual awakening, some call existential crisis. (It was both).

After meeting my now-husband in California in 2019, I had decided not to pursue the career I had worked my whole life toward and start my own business instead. Add a long-distance relationship (Switzerland – USA) and a pandemic to that and I found myself navigating more uncertainty than ever before.

The moment I was leaving my comfort zone – leaving my home country and all I had ever known to step into the unknown (move to the US) – my nervous system had a major breakdown. I had panic attacks, all kinds of other physical symptoms, I didn’t sleep nor eat. I thought something was deeply wrong with me.

Looking back, that experience was the catalyst of my healing journey. I wanted to know more about the connection between the mind and the body and why I was feeling the way I felt. Once I started, I devoured every book and podcast on the mind-body connection, the nervous system and trauma.

What truly changed the way I understood myself was learning about high sensitivity and what it means to be an empath (someone who feels other people’s emotions – sometimes even physical pain – as if they were their own). Recognizing that I was highly highly sensitive and learning how to work with my own energy was life changing.

After having worked with my own energy for a while – learning how to set energetic boundaries, how to ground and cleanse myself etc. – I felt called to train as an energy healer so I could support other people too.

Shortly after, I found Nicky Clinch’s BodyMind Maturation work, whose approach fascinated me because it teaches how to hold space for others not by adding more tools, but by helping shed what no longer serves. I got certified through her signature Alchemy of Being training, learning how to hold people in the depths of their emotions and be a space for human beings to heal at the root level.

Today, I facilitate Maturation work, energy healing, women’s circles, group healing circles, meditations, and more.

So - what started as a journey of self-healing and self-exploration led me to become a space for other people to come home to themselves.

And it has led me to finally owning that I am a healer.