A little about me and how I got here

I was four years old when I started noticing things.
Why don’t animals have kitchens like us? Why do adults keep so many secrets? The world felt like everyone was playing a game I hadn’t been told the rules to yet, and something in me knew there was more to life than what I was seeing. I was very curious.

At twenty, I started studying nutrition. I went organic, got deep into Ayurveda, devoured every book I could find in the library. Then I stumbled upon Natural Hygiene and something clicked. I went to a Belgian school to study, earned my certificate as a Health Educator, and became part of the European Union of Health Educators.

But I didn’t stop at theory. I experimented with diets and supplements on myself for years. Raw food, keto, paleo, breatharian, liquidarian, vegan. I climbed the Tramuntana mountains in mid-summer on nothing but mono fruit meals. I also tried 30 bananas a day, made alchemical superfood concoctions. I tried it all because I wanted to understand what actually worked in a living body, not just what sounded good on paper.

I’d been fascinated with human psychology even earlier, since I turned eighteen. I was reading the fathers of behavioral therapy: Jung, Freud, Dr. Skinner. Going deep into how they saw the world and when they were conditioned. I preferred Jung over Freud, but neither covered everything from my perspective. I started questioning: Everything is always changing, so how accurate are their frameworks from decades ago in the modern world of today? I wanted to figure that out for myself as I go.

So by twenty, as I was studying nutrition, I was also resolving my own psychology, observing patterns in my family, trying to understand how people actually work.
Something started happening. People would tell me their entire life story. On the street, at the bus stop, at first meeting in a park. Customers would share with me while I was working in a shop. Complete strangers felt safe sharing things with me they’d never told anyone else. And I’d just listen. Sometimes I offered guidance. They’d tell me how accurate it was and how grateful they were, and I could see it in their faces. Some said they felt blocks lift. Others found clarity and direction again. It made me happy.

This happened hundreds of times over the years in the Netherlands, in Spain, Albania, Italy, and Belgium while I was traveling. At some point I realized I had a gift, but I also realized I needed to learn how to use it properly.
I didn’t want to be a therapist, and I didn’t want to tell people what I thought the answer was. I wanted to help them find the answers within themselves.
So I enrolled in a bachelor’s program for Professional Life Coaching in the Netherlands and earned my degree three years later. During one of those years, a friend of a friend gifted me a ticket to Blair Singer’s “Train the Trainer” weekend course. Blair personally selected a few people to coach. I was one of them. At that course, I met other participants, and one of them gifted me a ticket to Tony Robbins’ “Unleash the Power Within” program, which we attended together.
I was beyond happy. During my degree program, I realized I’d been coaching all along, but I just hadn’t known what to call it. Now I had the tools, the structure, the professional framework to do it at an elite level.

After graduation, I went to work as a coach in a psychiatric department, helping people get back on their feet. But I quickly realized something: I didn’t want to help people after they’d already broken down. I wanted to help them before they got there.
Some of the people I worked with had developed their conditions through unfortunate life circumstances and years of self-abandonment, while others were born with it. But what frustrated me most was that I couldn’t help them with their nutrition. Budget constraints meant people were living on diets full of cookies and soda because they were medicated and it was all they had to feel comforted. But it got out of hand very often, and they were developing physical illnesses on top of everything else. It was a vicious cycle, and I couldn’t stand watching it.

I knew there had to be a better way. So I went back to school again. This time to study human anatomy and advanced Orthomolecular Nutrition. I earned another bachelor’s degree and brought everything together: personalized nutrition, targeted supplementation in therapeutic dosages, and life coaching that helps people find their voice, their boundaries, their clarity and their direction.
Nearly two decades and 500+ clients later, I’ve learned this: you can’t optimize your body without aligning your life, you can’t live authentically without the energy to sustain it, and people will only change when they’re tired fighting with themselves. That’s why I work the way I do.

Thank you for reading.

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