Apparently, becoming a professional coach involves learning to shut up, stop giving excellent advice and occasionally discuss gremlins. Here are 10 things nobody warned me about: 1. Silence is apparently a skill. My current record is somewhere around one or two minutes. Which doesn't sound particularly impressive until you sit opposite another human being in complete silence and actively resist the urge to SAY SOMETHING. At the beginning, silence felt like something I needed

I spent six years helping people write their Personal Development Plans. Now I've left corporate. And what did I do with my newfound freedom? I gave myself a PDP. Apparently, you can take the girl out of HR, but you can't take HR out of the girl. The difference? This might be the most personal Personal Development Plan I've ever written. I've always believed in the power of having a PDP. Writing down your goals, being clear about what you want to focus on and regularly reflec

For 3 months, I'd been looking forward to this week. My first week after leaving corporate. No Outlook. No Teams. No back-to-back meetings. No sitting in an office from 9 to 5. No one else's calendar deciding what my day should look like. Instead, I had planned a week that felt much more like me. Slow mornings with Jala Neti, Qigong, Yoga and Journaling. A weekly planning session on Monday morning. Daily check-ins to reflect on my energy. Weekly Reflection on Friday afternoon

Somewhere between becoming employable and becoming successful, many of us accidentally stop becoming ourselves. When I was a child, my dream job was to work in HR, sit in an office from 9 to 5 and spend my days in back to back meetings... Said no child ever. I wanted to become an actress. I spent years performing in theatre at school. My first internship wasn't in HR either. It was with a wedding photographer. As a child, I loved creating. I loved telling stories. Then I grew

There are moments in life that seem insignificant while they're happening. Sometimes it's a simple Google search. Looking back, I think my life changed because of four words I typed into a search bar on a random evening in July 2025: Yoga Teacher Training Abroad. At the time, I had no idea. A bad day and a random idea I'd had one of those days at work. Nothing catastrophic had happened. But I came away feeling frustrated and somehow... heavier than usual. I closed my laptop a

At a first glance, it’s just an old, black-and-white photograph. My father is standing in the snow, holding a measuring tape in his hand. The photo shows a young man at the former inner-German border. A border guard of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was taken in early 1990, just a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And that measuring tape in his hand tells a story. So I asked my father about it. “When I look at this photo, the memories come back

Two years ago, I moved to the UK. I didn't expect it to change my life as much as it did. Here are 15 lessons I'm taking with me. 1. Upgrade your bingo card. If you had shown me my life today five years ago, I wouldn't have believed you. I never thought I'd be able to live and work abroad. And now? I've quit my corporate job in the UK to travel the world and build my own business. None of that was on my bingo card. Which makes me wonder: how many things seem impossible simpl

Can you tell which photo was taken when I was genuinely happy and... which one was taken when I was at my lowest low? Take a guess! :-) Most people would have guessed wrong. Because in both photos, I'm smiling. That's the thing about being out of alignment. Most people can't see it. Sometimes not even you. From the outside, everything can look perfectly fine. And from the inside, you might be slowly falling apart. At the time, I looked successful. I looked happy. In many way

I didn't expect to cry while writing this post. Freedom is easy to take for granted when you've never lived without it. My parents grew up in East Germany behind a wall. I didn't. And the older I get, the more I realise how much that difference has shaped my life. Sometimes I imagine a conversation with my younger self... "You moved to another country by yourself?" Yes. "You speak English every day?" Most days more than German. "You can just buy a plane ticket and go?" Yes. "

EAT. PRAY. LOVE. or “I'm going to Italy and then I'm going to David's Guru's Ashram in India and I'm going to end the year in Bali.” I watched the movie and read the book for the first time during my yoga teacher training in Bali. Which, looking back, feels almost ironic. At the time, I thought: Beautiful story. Nice in theory. Not something people actually do, right? And yet, here I am. Still working until Summer but quietly preparing for my own version of it: I’m going hom

Not in a dramatic, all-or-nothing way. But in the moment you realise… you can’t go back. The phrase is often linked to Hernán Cortés who destroyed his ships so there was no option to retreat. No plan B. Just commitment to what’s ahead. For me, it looked a bit less dramatic. But just as real. A few weeks ago, I resigned from my corporate role. Not because anything was wrong. But because something in me had shifted and I couldn’t ignore it anymore. During my yoga teacher train