I’m highly intuitive, trained in energy work and ThetaHealing, but I’m also very grounded and love to make things actionable.
I’m a quick thinker and can be super-sharp, but I’m also an empath who tunes into your energy to feel where to go.

Honestly, balancing opposites

is ingrained in who I am

I’ve got a decade of leading teams and working in ministeries below my belt, as well as a decade as a leadership focused coach, teacher and writer.

You could say I’m not an early bloomer.
It’s taken me all my 40+ years to figure out who I truly am.

I’ve started out as a super-sensitive girl, picking up on everyone’s energy. I started using everything I learned that way to become a full-on pleaser. I knew what they expected of me before they could even voice it and I learned how to use that so they would like me.

In my university years I started leading, but in a very directive way. I chaired a couple of student boards, fully clad in an armour of old-paradigm leadership traits.

When I got a job as an Interim Manager in the Dutch government,

my perspective changed.

I vividly remember sitting in a communication training where I was asked to share what I liked about myself and what made me different from others, and I had NOTHING.

I remember sitting in that room. The realization sinking in that while I was valued and appreciated by others, I lost touch with what made me ME: my quirkiness and my fun.

I recall the devastation from understanding that I’d taken away all the little things that made me unique or different to prevent people from being put off by what they saw. Instead, I ticked all the boxes: university degree, smart, beautiful, dressed in a way that was flattering, but never uncovering more than was proper, going out, but never losing control etc etc.

I was really good at my job. My talent to read the (unspoken) needs of others, to pick up energies and make sense of them lead to success and promotions.

But I didn’t feel like me anymore.