The real, authentic me, that always knew that there was a life beyond meeting imposed expectations. While I achieved most things I set my heart to, the truth is that I still felt like something was missing in my life. My life felt mechanical, and somehow empty (despite the fact that I had it all).

When I became pregnant, things started changing for me. I kept on dreaming of what family life would be like, but I was also afraid of how I would be as a parent for my kids. The vision of my imaginary future kids sitting on a therapist’s couch and detailing all the ways in which my parenting had screwed them up, was too much to take. I did what I knew best, being a geek with a never ending appetite for lifelong learning, I started my quest to unlearn everything I knew about bonding and attachment.

Everything I had seen, heard, read about, or was explicitly taught was now up for debate. By facing my fears, I started on this deep quest - what I thought was initially to get over my fear of a natural birth (I did have two beautiful births as a result) shook me and took me on a transformative path to find my own truth, and I became a somatic experiencing practitioner with specific focus on attachment and power wounds.

When I went back to work after my births, my former life did not align with the “me” that I had met during my home birth - fearless, raw, authentic and vulnerable. I felt the need to fundamentally break intergenerational trauma patterns so I could show up differently for my daughters.

To do that, I had to “meet” my body. I learnt everything I could about our bodies - specifically our nervous systems, our fascia our bones, muscles - not as anatomical parts but this complex, interconnected and inextricably linked systems.

This took me on an incredible journey to find passion, profits and purpose - and that they are not mutually exclusive, I learnt that one of the most powerful tools we have to find systemic change in this post-pandemic, late-stage capitalistic world is to find our own authenticity at work and in personal life.

So I created my own paradigm shifts, to re-imagine coaching, bringing together nervous system regulation, power wounds transformation and trauma healing.