About me
🤝What I care about in our work
I don't care about your "mistakes" or your self-judgement. I don't care if you disappointed somebody or yourself. I care if you are ready to reconnect with the often quiet little voice that tells you which internal or external step to take next.
It doesn't matter to me where you come from, what school you went to or whether you have any qualifications. I want to know if you are now ready to take on the challenges, accept yourself and go in the direction that lights you up.
I don't care what others think or assume about you. I want to discover with you what fulfills you at your core when everything else falls away.
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"Show yourself as you are and be as you show yourself."
Rumi
🌱 My Path Back to Myself
One day I was standing in front of my class and asked myself: What am I actually doing here? That question hit me hard. I realized that I had lost touch with my deepest truth – with my longings, values, and authenticity.
I was never the typical teacher who thrived on discipline and order. Instead, I tried to adapt, to bend myself to meet expectations. Every morning, I forced myself out of bed, brought my daughter to daycare, and stood in the classroom by 7:45 a.m. – tired, stressed, and emotionally drained.
To my students, I played the role of the balanced and composed teacher. But the truth was: I was sleeping poorly, constantly overwhelmed, and questioning how I ended up in this life I had supposedly chosen consciously.
Hadn’t I decided to become a teacher? Yes. But everything in me resisted the idea of pretending one more day to be someone I was not.
So I made a courageous decision: I quit my secure job with a good salary, 14 weeks of vacation, and regular working hours.
Since then, I feel free and alive. I have the energy again to care for my daughter with love, to move my body, and to create. The long-buried sense of adventure returned, and I feel that I’m finally on the right path.
Of course, I’m still on this journey — I keep evolving, learning, and growing every day.
🌍 My Background
Born in 1990 in Dresden, my path took me through various European countries as I studied to become a secondary school teacher in French and Spanish. I had the chance to study in La Réunion and Spain, and also spent several months living in France, Belgium, and Italy. Eventually, I arrived in the French-speaking part of Switzerland – and felt instantly at home.
Since 2017, Switzerland has been my chosen home. After seven years of teaching at different high schools, I realized I never truly identified with the school system. My passion had always been psychology, spirituality, and the biology of well-being.
I completed the “Happiness as a School Subject” program at the Fritz-Schubert Institute for Personality Development and offered yoga courses to my students. This was my attempt to integrate personal growth into the classroom. But the ongoing pressure to perform and the constant fear of exams led me to take a new professional path.
Therefore, I chose to become a Certified Wayfinder Life Coach, trained in the transformational coaching method developed by Dr. Martha Beck – rooted in integrity, intuition, and deep inner clarity.
To deepen my trauma-sensitive coaching approach, I completed a certified EMDR training with Andreas Zimmermann, an experienced trainer and director of the EMDR Academy. This training expanded my ability to support clients in processing difficult experiences.
I remain curious and open to new insights in order to continuously enrich my work and be fully present for those I accompany.
🏡 My Life Today
I live with my four-year-old daughter and my husband in the Swiss Alps, nestled between two lakes – surrounded by nature that gives me strength and inspiration. In my free time, I wander through the forests, explore hiking trails, listen to audiobooks, read, write, or enjoy a good movie.
I love fireplaces, cinnamon rolls, rainy and sunny weather, the smell of new books, dancing to my favorite music, and cuddling with my loved ones.
What annoys me most about myself? My impatience with myself.
🧭 My Coaching Training
My Wayfinder Life Coach training was offered by Dr. Martha Beck – Oprah Winfrey’s personal life coach and an internationally bestselling author.
Dr. Martha Beck holds three academic degrees from the renowned Harvard University. In the Wayfinder Life Coach Training, she combines scientific knowledge of the brain and body with psychological and spiritual approaches in a clearly structured framework that helps guide us toward our best lives.
In addition to this training, I continuously deepen my knowledge for myself and my clients through seminars from other experts and a wide range of books in neuroscience, psychology, and personal development.
The Wayfinder Life Coach Training follows the standards of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the world’s largest professional coaching organization.
✅ My Qualifications at a Glance
Wayfinder Life Coach Training
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provided by Martha Beck Inc. (Life Coach of Oprah Winfrey)
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holistic Life Coach Training with focus on change management, integrating the nervous system and thought work to obtain best results
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the goal is to help connect the client with his own inner truth, so he/she finds back to integrity
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👉 marthabeck.com
School Subject "Happiness"
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provided by the Fritz-Schubert-Stiftung for self development in Heidelberg, Germandy
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methods to learn from your past, recognize your present and create a fulfilling future
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knowledge about the biology behind wellbeing
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👉 remaking.ch; Fritz-Schubert-Stiftung | Psychologisches Wohlbefinden
Eternal curiosity
Offered by: Andreas Zimmermann, EMDR Academy
Focus: Integration of trauma-sensitive methods into coaching & counseling
Topics covered:
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Fundamentals of trauma therapy
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Stabilization & resource activation
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Working through blockages & creative integration
Objective: To process distressing experiences and strengthen self-regulation
👉 emdr-akademie.de
🌟What characterizes me as a life coach?
As your life coach, I am a neutral companion who approaches you with appreciation and honesty.
In addition to the typical approach of calming the mind and therefore calming the body (top down approach), I see if coaching needs to be done the other way round: we calm the body/nervous system first and therefore the mind. This makes my coaching very effective because, in case of immense stress or anxiety, I adresss the more ancient parts of your nervous system before we switch to working with younger parts of your brain which responds to language based coaching. Like a gardener who digs up the garden to plant some new and beautiful flower, you will learn to dig up the roots of weeds that cause you distress and anxiety. From this new state of relaxation, inherent qualities like curiosity and creativity can blossom and fill your life with new beauty.
My goal is to help you achieve a better quality of life. I will help you cope with difficult changes with ease and develop your dreams and visions, to achieve your life goals.
I am at your side to manage your life with more lightness and confidence regardless of the puzzles that life throws at you. I will help you find the piece of the puzzle you need. Through coaching, I have learned myself that it is crucial from which perspective we look at things and how we deal with them, because we cannot control what happens to us, but how we can react to it.
❤️Why am I a life coach?
Several life storms such as break-ups due to no clue how a happy relationship can actually come to be, burnout and family trauma led me to find my way to coaching. During this time, I tried different methods to find answers, process things and recharge my batteries. After my first coaching session as a client, I felt refreshed and full of energy, as if I could achieve anything. Suddenly many things seemed natural and simple, as if I had found a guide for life. The coaching strengthened me personally, changed my perspective in a positive way and convinced me so much that I decided to become a coach myself and learn it from scratch from one of the most renowned sources.
In my daily life as a teacher, I also saw how many things that are essential for a happy life are not taught and learned in school. So I said to myself: if I know how to do this, then I want to pass it on to others. I know from my own experience that time and energy can be wasted in the search for a better life, but that doesn't mean you have to follow the same path. My goal is to save you years of detours. I want to help you get manage the ever recurring change of life and enjoy your life to the fullest. My passion has always been language and communication. I firmly believe that help is possible for those who open up and talk and through powerful questions from a safe and neutral person. Because no one is alone in this world and has to cope with everything on their own.
