Why I Do This Work

When I was a child, maybe seven or eight years old, I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. I was fascinated by people’s minds and behavior: why some were violent while others were kind, why some people got sick and a lot while others seemed to have body of steel and no matter how much they smoke or drunk they wouldn't even sneeze. I imagined the answers lived inside the brain itself, and I dreamed of opening it up to see.

That curiosity carried me through years of studying chemistry with the hope of entering medicine. But by the time I finished school, my eyesight had deteriorated so badly that the idea of medical training, 8-9 years buried in textbooks, felt impossible. I turned to IT, choosing practicality and financial stability over passion. Almost immediately, though, I knew I had stepped into the wrong path.

At the time I also was not well physically: digestion issues, weakness, fatigue, even faint spells. Searching for relief, I changed my diet (vegetarian and later vegan), and felt enough strength return to move my body again. Yoga and exercise opened new doors: into sensation, into flashbacks, into long-buried memories surfacing from the fascia. That’s when I discovered the work of Teal Swan, John Bradshaw, and Peter Levine. Their teachings, alongside yoga and somatic practices, shifted me from numbness and dissociation into glimpses of joy. For the first time, I could feel alive.

At that point, I shifted from IT and English teaching into supporting people through their own healing. I trained in the Completion Process and began holding space for others experiencing emotional flashbacks, triggers, and buried pain, just like I had. Over the last decade, I’ve worked with people from around the world, from many different walks of life, each carrying their own version of these struggles. And I continue to deepen my education, now training as a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner.

The most profound discovery for me was neuroplasticity. Trauma can stunt the development of the nervous system, leaving us anxious, depressed, or fragmented. But the body is miraculous: given the right conditions, it can repair and regenerate. The brain and nervous system keep learning, adapting, and healing even well into adulthood.

This is why I do the work I do. Too many people believe “this is it, I can’t change, I am who I am.” But I’ve lived the opposite: we can grow, we can reconnect with joy and aliveness, we can create the lives we thought were out of reach. My passion is holding space for others as they discover this for themselves guiding them through the healing of trauma and the return to sensation, presence, and the simple miracle of being alive.