For each person, there is only one unique path meant to be. If you take that path, life flows easily, with calm and without strain. However, if you ignore your intuition and try to carve a path based on your mind's needs, it will be one of recurring struggle, doubt and dissatisfaction
"I have always loved the unknown. To travel to a new place by myself, or to, figuratively speaking, close a door before the next one opens, It cuts out all the noise, so I can hear my intuition even louder.
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Every big decision I ever took, was without -and often against- any sense of reason. Instead, there was always a knowing in my core being.
When I was 25, single and responsible for no one but myself, I decided to quit my job in Neuroscience to move to Nicaragua. With no savings, no job, no plan. Just a strong belief that this was the right thing to do. And it was indeed. I felt alive, built a beautiful home, and started my journey into the Healing Arts.
My interest had always been in mental & physical well-being. With the way the western world predominantly looks at well-being, these two areas are separate in academics. So in my early twenties I studied Psychology and obtained my Masters in Neuroscience, thinking the brain was the closest to what would satisfy my interest in both body and mind. When I proceeded to work in researching Healthy Aging, I knew that the perspective from which the western academic world is viewing health wasn't something that was ever going to align with my beliefs. That's when I did my first yoga training in Nicaragua and decided to move there.
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Yoga was the start of beginning to understand the mind-body connection. My understanding grew deeper when I studied Thai massage with a master in Thailand. Another typical example of intuition always being right: I hopped on a plane to Thailand to learn this Healing Art, simply because my intuition told me to do so. I had never even experienced a Thai massage myself. Years of Thai bodywork taught me things about the body and mind that I wouldn't have found in books. People cry, regain lost sensation, release emotional trauma, soften, release injuries, break down emotional walls that are built up for years, and the list goes on. Finally, learning Vipassana meditation (the Art of Living) and meditating 2 hours a day every day for years, deepened my mind-body knowledge through experiencing my own mind and body on such a deep level.
The road to understanding the mind-body connection and all that entails -how we store trauma, how physical illness is related to the mind, etc- is one with no ending and I'm very much looking forward to being a student for life.
Currently, I'm studying Gabor Mates 'Compassionate Inquiry' approach; a therapeutic trauma-informed approach that incorporates the body when inquiring into the past. .
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At this very moment, I'm taking a big intuitive leap again. But this time with my partner and our two kids. I'm leaving behind a beautiful home and amazing community in Nicaragua, to start a new life in a place where housing is hard to find, without jobs lined up or a solid plan. Just a vision of what I want for myself and my family, and an unbreakable trust that this is the right thing for me.
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Now I don't believe that life is necessarily supposed to be lived boldly, moving across oceans multiple times. That's just my personal path. I do believe that every step of the way should be lived intuitively.
If this resonates for you, I'd be more than happy to hear from you and offer you guidance, whether for physical health, releasing trauma or living an authentic life.