About

I was born as a particularly happy child, but of course, without any clue what life had in store for me. As far as I remember, I loved everything and everyone. However, I wouldn’t really talk to anybody outside my family (obviously, that would change later). No matter how happy I was on the inside, I always felt I did not belong to the world around me. As a six-year-old, I was lying in bed, thinking about God and whether I would want to be a nun. I think I would have been a very content and happy nun. As a ten-year-old, I was entirely thrilled by the discovery that the universe and the makeup of atoms are so similar, and I thought I would want to be a scientist – which later came true.

In my mid-thirties, a traumatic event occurred that would turn my life upside down. What followed was a ten-year period in which I first struggled with and later healed myself from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including general anxiety disorder, panic attacks, hypochondriacal disorder, cardiac phobia, and depression. For almost ten years, I was suffering from fear of death almost every waking second. Finally, after years of agony, I understood. And I managed to heal myself without any medical treatment. Today, I am even happier than I was as a child.

Without extraordinary resilience, I would not have been able to overcome my extremely pronounced anxiety disorder. PTSD needs to be treated by specialists, and I would never accept a client with PTSD – but in my case, it was different because, at that time (2001 – not that far back), I could not find a single therapist dealing with PTSD. Somehow I had to find a way out of all that by myself. To heal, I first had to accept – without fear – how I was feeling. I had to take full responsibility for my problems and I knew I had to trust in myself and my healing. In the process, I have learnt a lot about self-empowerment, and resilience.

Life led me to meet very interesting people and to have many different careers. Once, I worked as a branch manager at a bank, then as a language teacher in Oxford, and later as a professor at the university. I truly loved my life at the university. Nevertheless, I had to follow a different path. My love for herbs, monastery medicine, and healing needed to be expressed. So I founded a factory for organic herbal teas. All teas were produced by myself, based on my own recipes. And the teas were really delicious, and they worked really well. So well that I almost got into trouble (only doctors and pharmacists are allowed to create and mix medical infusions – at least in Germany).

It didn’t stop with the herbs, though. I started attending seminars and workshops, reading hundreds of books, getting certified as a herbalist, as a coach, and in different healing methods. Over time, I have studied so much ancient knowledge and so many different ways of healing that today I am sure that the stories and approaches may differ, but the source of healing is the same.

Learning and teaching are like a golden thread in my life. I have been teaching and giving seminars for over twenty-five years. Seminars do have their merits. Individual coaching, however, allows for a deeper understanding, more targeted guidance, and a highly customised coaching process.

I look forward to getting to know you, helping you with what I have learned, and learning from you.