This work — breathwork, somatics, the mind-body connection — didn’t just inspire me. It saved me.

For over a decade, I lived at the pace of Brussels politics: fast, high-stakes, relentless. I worked at the heart of EU decision-making, fighting for justice and human rights in a system shaped by power, compromise, and competing interests. I was a high-achiever, driven by limitless ambition to move up in my career, chasing success and recognition, pushing through my own physical and mental limits, powering on. However, my achievements never felt satisfying or fulfilling, so I was always focusing on the next big goal to accomplish. 

To survive in that world, I disconnected from my body. I lived entirely in my head, overriding every signal my body sent me, every need, every cry for rest. Coffee replaced sleep. Pressure became purpose. I saw and treated my body as a machine that I expected to keep going, no matter the cost.

It took three burnouts and two autoimmune diseases for everything to crash.

I got ill, and for the first time, I couldn’t push through it. I had to stop. I had to listen to my body even if, by then I didn’t know how to. Of course, I could’ve numbed the symptoms with medication and kept going. But I didn’t want to just function. I wanted to feel. To live. To feel safe in my own body.

I chose to heal. I wanted to understand the root of what had brought me to that point.

Breathwork and bodywork played a crucial role in that healing. They allowed me to release the trauma, tension, and scars of past experiences — the ones that had shaped my beliefs, dimmed my light, and taught me to abandon myself in order to belong and feel seen. I began to challenge the narratives I was taught to accept as “normal,” and started to rewire my patterns, build confidence, and create space for the life I actually dreamt of.

Through somatic healing, I began to slow down. To feel again. To remember who I was beneath the armour I has unconsciously built to avoid feeling everything that was trapped in my system. I rebuilt trust with my body, healed old wounds, reclaimed my power, and re-learned the natural rhythms of my nervous system. I softened. I came home to myself.

And now, I offer this work to others as a path back to their real selves, to find wholeness and start building from a place of self-love and self-respect. A return to your body. A return to your truth. A return to you.