My name is Shanti

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 (don’t try this on your own). I also tried the ‘30 bananas a day’ diet, created alchemical superfood concoctions. I tried it all because I want to understand the experience that I’m guiding my patients through.

Besides the anatomy, I’ve been fascinated with human psychology even earlier. Since I turned eighteen, I was reading the fathers of behavioral therapy: Jung, Freud and Dr. Skinner. I started questioning: Everything is always changing, so how accurate are their frameworks from decades ago in the modern world of today?

So, while I was studying nutrition in my early twenty’s, I was also digging deep into my own psychology to resolve it. What was so interesting to me about that period was that simultaneously an increasing amount of people would come to me and talk about their life stories. It became clear to me that our lifestories were somehow connected.

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. If there was a question I’d offer 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 heaviness lift. Others found clarity and direction again. It made me happy that I could help with that.

This happened hundreds of times over the years. At some point I realized that I needed to learn how to use this ability 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 program for Professional Life Coaching in the Netherlands and earned my bachelor’s 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’, a 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 Robbin’s ‘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 collected the tools, the structure, the professional framework to do it at a professional level.

After graduation, I went to work as a coach in a psychiatric department, helping people build a daily structure and being a guide in helping them reintegrate back into society.
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 properly study human anatomy and advanced Orthomolecular therapy. I earned two more bachelor degrees 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 later I’ve learned that you can’t optimize your body without aligning your life and you can’t live authentically without the energy to sustain it.

This is why I do the work I do here. I am very happy to treat conditions with natural medicine even though I don’t replace medical assistance. With my help, you can support your physiological and mental wellbeing and development alongside the treatment of your doctor so the side-effect-chain can be minimized or, in some cases, even eliminated.

The work I do within the practices of Orthomolecular therapy, Lifestyle Coaching and Neurological Regulation are scientifically proven.

If something resonated, feel free to get in touch.