"Learn to TrustYour Journey, Even When You Don't Understand It, Yet"
My Journey & Philosophy
For as long as I can remember, taking care of others has always been my"Second Nature".
I worked at a daycare for 11 years. And even in my free time, I was always busy helping other people.
Later on, I realised that while I was so busy helping these other people...
I was also forgetting about "ME".
And, that brought up "The Big Question" for me...
"Who Am I?"
And, with the big question came an even bigger desire for me to find an answer.
I needed to find out who I truly was!
But, because I had this strong desire to discover myself...
I started looking at everything that showed up on my path as an opportunity to find myself, again.
And, even after months of trying so many different & new things...
I still felt stuck!
Then, my intuition told me to put myself in a more neutral environment...
A place where I could be all by myself.
So, I ended up booking a random ticket to the wonderful island of Curaçao...
I just wanted to go somewhere where the sun is always shining, with palmtrees everywhere, and the clear blue ocean all around me, so I could feel Free and more in-tune with Nature!
Finally! After all these years, I made the decision to take care of "Me", first!
But, when you find yourself alone, with a lot of time to spend on your self...
You'll eventually be confronted by the one thing that most of us is scared of facing...
"Your True Self"
And, just like looking in a mirror...
You end up face to face with your self.
I call it the process of facing "The Mirror of Truth"!
See, what makes this "Mirror of Truth" so scary is that It doesn't only show you your True Self...
But, it also shows you those parts of yourself that you've been afraid to look at for all those years.
Fears that come from the traumas, insecurities, & pains from your past...
Fears that keep you stuck in old patterns...
Fears that keep you from achieving your full potential!
And, there's one thing I can promise you about fears...
"Everthing You Want Is On The Other Side Of Fear"
Nothing can be scarier than being face to face with your own deepest fears.
But once you opened this door there's no other way then to conquer your fears..
I was in a roller coaster of emotions, and we all know how that ride goes!
It was a scary but also exited ride with a lot of ups and downs during it.
The biggest battle with fear that I had to conquer was my acceptance of myself, and my insecurities about my weight.
I was always a bit chubby and I had an everlasting struggle of losing weight.
It was a never ending story...
I believe a lot of you can identify themself in this...
I found motivation to try another diet and start with a new group lesson at the gym. lost some weight and felt better of myself!
But as soon stress came back in my life, I found comfort in food and ate my sorrows away.
With the result of me being "The chubby one" again...
And this same story was on Repeat for so many years...
What really made me want to change forever was the moment I went shopping for a nice outfit for my birthday and after 20 dresses still didn't found something that would fit me nice....
That was my breaking point.
I started to cry and felt really bad about myself.
I realized this couldn't go on very longer and I had to find myself again...
For the last time I took a look at the "Old Me" and said to myself; It's time to fight this battle.
Now, I was determined to find the right tools to help me conquer this battle.
I found myself a personal trainer, who let me be myself and supported me through the whole process of finding 'ME' again.
I started training 1 to 2 times per day, 5 times a week. And learned a different way of eating. I developed a new healthy lifestyle.
But, during the process of losing weight, a lot of hidden emotions started showing up.
These emotiones where the reason why my body felt the need to ‘protect’ me with all those layers of fat...
My body was trying to make sure “Olivia” was nowhere to be found...
As if my body was trying say "if you can't find Olivia, you can't hurt Olivia".
But after more than 2 years of fighting...
There I was again! I had overcome my fears and it felt like I was reborn, but also so enormously vulnerable...
Vulnerable, because when I looked in the mirror the only thing I saw was...
MY TRUE SELF!
It felt like I had to get to know "me" al over again...
Physically and mentally I had to get comfortable with the "new me".
In my head I was still that chubby girl I always was and it took some time for me to see the "True Me".
So after my process of loosing weight, I came to the next chapter of my Journey...
And that was accepting myself for who I am, and feeling totally comfortable in my body.
Selflove and Acceptance where the two mindset shifts that allowed me to be Happy with myself, again.
My new healthy lifestyle and a lot of "me" time made me strong and aware of my second chance to live my life to the fullest.
Discipline and Routine are two very important factors to stay balanced and focused.
Breathe In Courage & Exhale Fear
Going through my own journey gave me the inspiration to help others, finding their better self.
If I can do it, YOU can do it, too!
What I do is, walk beside you during your whole process and together we go on a Journey to find the path you need to walk to live life in your full potential.
No coaching session is the same for me because I see everybody as a unique person and while I get to know you the path will come naturally.
In 2019, I got started with my first official coaching sessions.
I posted my life changing story on social media, and started getting clients, straight away.
At first, I decided to combine my coaching with personal training.
Because during my own healing process, personal training served as powerful tool for processing my fears.
I believe MIND and BODY need to be in balance in order to be successful in reaching your goals.
Not everybody find it easy to talk about their own struggles and trauma's.
So this combination of coaching & personal training helps you on a deeper level when dealing with your trauma's.
And after a while the body and mind start getting stronger and because of the bond we create through training together it becomes easier for us to work on your deeper thoughts & feelings.
It's important for you to be able to contact me whenever you need it. This is why I also offer online coaching, so that we can always be connected & keep moving forward in your process.
My approach to coaching is very natural and is developed to bring you as much clarity and new prospectives as possible.
During our first session we'll focus together on creating the path that suits you best, so that you can get started with your Journey of embracing the best version of YOU!
“You're only a heartbeat away to taking the first step..."
