KAREN'S JOURNEY
After high school I studied Communication Science & Public Relations, and then continued with Health Science.
While I was getting these degrees I did the number 1 thing I still love the most... dancing! Shows, competitions, teaching.
That's what I really wanted to do full-time with my life..
So I did!
I worked for 13 years as a professional dancer and I really did live my best life!
Travelling, working with artists, organising shows and events. Always on the go..
Sounds amazing right?
It was! But let me tell you, an artist's life is so unpredictable... You can be making good money one month, and almost broke the next!
This is why I decided to add strength & conditioning coaching to my skills and I started working with private clients and teams, to make up for those quieter times..
At 31, I made a big jump and moved from Brussels to London. I decided at this point that I wanted to shift gears (auditioning amongst groups of 19 year olds made that decision for me!), go back to university and work as a S&C coach in the mean time.
Good plan? Well, London is tough my friend. I quickly realised that I would first have to make more money. So I grew my freelance coaching business, and continuously improved my knowledge on physical as well as mental health.
I studied clinical nutrition, mindset, performance and relationship coaching, NLP, Dance, Art and EFT Therapy. And I kept grinding away....
In hindsight... I was struggling, but not fully aware that I was. I worked or studied every waking hour and was lost in long bouts of hyper focus. As my ADHD sisterhood knows, hyper focus is followed by burn out if you don't manage it well. And eventually, my body let me know that it had enough.
I had been officially diagnosed with ADHD at 25, but had no tangible knowledge what that meant for me or how I could manage it.
When I was at that point of complete overwhelm, not really knowing where I wanted to go next, I realised that I had to understand the way my own brain operates first, and leverage those skills - despite of and thanks to ADHD - that I knew where in me, to be able to help others.
This sparked a journey of working with other coaches and mentors,
to learn about myself:
how and why I react to certain situations, what my brain and body REALLY need, how I can create helpful routines, and why I should stop feeling guilty about... well, everything.
This was the key to develop myself further, and it also clarified WHAT I really wanted to do and WHO I wanted to work with. After years of viewing my ADHD brain as a problem, I fully embraced it and specialised in
ADHD coaching for women.
And... I finally took the leap and went back to university! Living my best geek life, I now understood how to combine my passions, my knowledge and
my lived experience..
Don't get me wrong, this was not and will never be the end of my exploration. It is a on-going process, and every day again,
I create the possibility of who I am.
What has changed is that instead of constantly feeling that I am only coping and surviving, I now have the tools to take charge and thrive.
This is what love to teach, because it comes from an organic, intentional process that is inspired by my background.
To date, I have had the pleasure of supporting over 1000 women in improving their skills, routines, and well-being through workshops, courses,
coaching and projects.
I am the biggest cheerleader of women like you, who want to learn how to accept and understand their own unique wiring better, and boost their confidence, and improve their personal and professional
connections and ambitions.
The knowledge you can expect to gain from working with me is researched, presented creatively and based on genuine intent to support you to get where you want to be.
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