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Stories of my clients.
Brian
32 years
Construction Site Supervisor
3rd time participant
"When the system, and especially the heart, is open, the things you need come into your life on their own, and much faster than you think."
Where he started.
3rd program with me, after two earlier 6-week rounds
Already knew the open heart, but could never hold on to it
Quietly closed himself off under pressure, a habit since childhood
His goal: "To meet the world with an open heart."
What shifted.
Stopped bracing: when something went wrong, he could let it be
Sense of being blocked: dropped from 7 to 2
Ability to open his heart: rose from 0 to 7
His takeaway: "Deeply relaxed. Everything is allowed to be the way it is, and that is completely okay."
The Story.
Brian is a feeler, not an explainer. He doesn't need to understand things first. In the sessions he was in his body within seconds, describing exactly what he felt: a ball pressing against his arm, an endless thread he was pulling out of his chest. That directness was his gift. What held him back was an old reflex of tensing up, a way of holding life at a distance that had once kept him safe as a child.
The shift was not dramatic, it was practical. One morning a cake tin slipped and fell on the floor, and instead of the anger he expected from himself, he simply cleaned it up and started over. "I assumed I'd lose it," he said. He didn't. Over the eight weeks the same quiet steadiness kept showing up: at work, in new relationships, in the small frustrations of an ordinary day.
This was the third time Brian chose to work with me, two six-week rounds before this, and now eight weeks of ENJOY. He keeps coming back because each round moves something real, and because the work meets him where he actually is instead of where a method says he should be.
The honest part.
Not everything is resolved. There is an old, closed door that Brian only began to approach, and it stayed mostly closed. The tension he now recognizes is still an old habit that will return under pressure. The work here was not a cure. It was learning to notice, and to let go, and that is something he can keep doing on his own.
Gaby M.
32 years
Nutritionist
Extended for another 4 months
"So much changed for me, and quite fast. If you want to feel real results, this coaching is worth it."
Where she started.
Ten years of trying: therapy, energy healing, hypnosis, breathwork, yoga, meditation, somatic work
Lots of insight, but in her words only ever "a baby step forward"
Tired, anxious, ashamed, no drive, and a shame that "just sticks to me"
Her goal: "Free of worry, free of shame. More on the inside instead of the outside. To find my drive again."
What shifted.
She stopped fighting her own dark parts, and they got smaller instead of bigger
Feeling difficult emotions without pushing them away: rose from 3 to 8
Body feeling light and alive: rose from 1 to 9
Sense of being blocked: dropped from 8 to 3
Her takeaway: "Everything is allowed to be here. I don't have to fight my dark parts, that is what drains me."
The Story.
Gaby had already done the work, for years. She knew the tools, she had the insights. What never came was the part that lasts. She did not need another technique. She had no fight left in her, and that was exactly the right moment to stop fighting.
The first real turn was a quiet one. For a long time her story was that other people crossed her boundaries. Then she saw it the other way around: she was the one driving herself over her own line, holding the mask up, then running out of energy. "I am the one draining myself, not the others," she said. "The mask is not for them. It is for me." From there the weight came off. Under the pressure to perform sat two old voices, a father she could never do enough for and a mother who said she would never make it anyway. Seeing that they had become her own inner voice was the moment the pressure eased.
By the end the same steadiness kept showing up in ordinary life: a conflict at work she let out instead of swallowing, days with more energy, a body that felt light for the first time in years. The people around her noticed it too.
The honest part.
This was not an ending. It was an opening. The shame she carried for years did not vanish in eight weeks, and she is the first to say so: "There is still a lot of shame and uncertainty in me. Plenty of room to grow." The one thing she is still learning is to tell real acceptance apart from quietly checking out. None of this is a switch that flips. It is a practice she now has, and she chose to keep going to make it hold.
Laura D.
31 years
Civil servant
“It felt like the end. But it was really a huge chance to finally look, exactly when it hurts.”
Where She started.
Came in mid free-fall: a relationship just ended, a conflict at work escalating
One move on repeat: the moment something felt wrong, she had to fix it, herself most of all
The harder she pushed, the tighter it got
What shifted.
What moved was not another fix, but letting go of the belief that she was the problem
The work conflict settled the day she stopped fighting it
A date she almost cancelled turned light the moment she stopped trying
Her words at the end: "I could finally relax."
The Story.
Laura feels everything, fast and precisely. That was never the issue. The issue was what she did with it: every feeling had to be fixed, repaired, made to go away, and quickly. Impatience was her armor. "I just want to be further along already," she said early on. Underneath sat an older belief, that something was wrong with her, that she had to get it right to be okay.
The turn was not a breakthrough she forced. It was the opposite. In the hardest week, with the conflict at work at its peak, she stopped pushing against it: "It really hurts, and this is how it is right now." From there things loosened. The stomach trouble she had carried for months calmed within days. On a silent retreat she sat through two days of panic instead of running from it, and stayed.
The job sorted itself out once she let it. So did the lightness she had been chasing.
The Honest Part.
Money is still the open edge, and Laura knows it. She noticed that money and love run on the same charge in her, the same wanting, the same tension, and making peace there has only just begun. This was never a switch that flipped. It is a practice she now has the tools for. Her next step is not to work harder on herself. It is to do less, stay, and be gentle.
Johannes
Heinzelmann
39 years
AI Consultant
“I was always looking for a way to get out of my head and into my body.”
Where he started.
Ran his life on willpower: 8 years in consulting taught him to push through everything and keep a poker face
The price: a tiredness that had followed him for two years
Started the program one day before a new job, two days after a long trip that finally pulled him out of the constant stress
His goal: to be braver, and to finally live from his body instead of his head
What shifted.
Stopped treating his body as an obstacle
Aches in shoulders and neck, once read as proof he couldn't perform, stopped running his days
Sense of being blocked: dropped from 7 to 3
Body awareness: rose from 3 to 6
Led a demanding 2.5-hour meeting with an ease that surprised him
The Story.
Johannes is an engineer at heart. He wants to understand a thing before he lets it in, to name it and fit it into a model. With anything technical he dives straight in, open and quick to act. With feelings he goes the other way, up into his head, where it is safe. That split was the whole story of these eight weeks: the same man, two very different modes.
The change was quiet and practical. Over the weeks he found that the tiredness was never a lack of energy, it was the cost of pushing. Where he stopped forcing things, life got lighter, and the things he wanted came more easily, not less. He could feel his body in a way he hadn't before, and the small physical complaints that used to drag him down simply mattered less.
The Honest Part.
This is a beginning, not a finish. Walking up to a complete stranger with no reason still sits at the edge of what feels possible for him, and feeling, rather than understanding, is still the harder path. By his own honest measure, one number even moved the other way: he ended the eight weeks more aware of how much he still lives in his head. That is not a failure. It is what it looks like when someone who thinks for a living starts, for the first time, to feel.
Tamara
45 years
Process Manager
“Stillness is the one thing I really can't stand. Today I can sit with it.”
Where She started.
On the outside, everything was working. Yet a quiet sadness with no obvious cause, and the constant sense of living in her head. Stillness felt foreign, almost threatening.
What shifted.
She can hold on to the joy in her own decisions, even when worry or criticism comes from those around her. She no longer has to push stillness away.
The Story.
Tamara is someone who needs to understand things. The theory made immediate sense to her. That was also her protection: as long as she stayed in her head, she didn't have to feel. Her biggest trigger, stillness, and her core theme, too much thinking, turned out over the eight weeks to be two sides of the same thing.
The most tangible breakthrough came around the theme of guilt toward others. She makes brave, right decisions, but could never hold on to the joy of them once concern came from the people around her. When that guilt lost its weight in an exercise, outside criticism stopped reaching her sense of wellbeing.
The Honest Part.
Not everything is resolved. Some things she set in motion rather than finished, and she kept her questioning scepticism. That's part of it. For her, change isn't a switch but a slow tipping of the scale.
Lea
29 years
Vocational school teacher
2nd time participant
"I have the feeling this was only the beginning. Things came up that I hadn't even seen at the start. That is where it goes on now.”
Where She started.
A mind that never switched off: every morning already loud with what she had to do and what others might think
Defined herself through performance, so even her holidays filled up with pressure instead of rest
A jaw so tense it had, in her words, forgotten what relaxed feels like
Her goal: "to start the day without anticipating what could happen, to get the others out of my head"
What shifted.
Learned to let a feeling be there instead of solving it first
"Only in my head": dropped from 8 to 5
Letting difficult feelings be there: rose from 4 to 10
Body awareness in daily life: rose from 6 to 9
Swapped "I want to feel good" for "I decide to feel good", and it held: calm and happy the night before a lesson observation
The Story.
Lea thinks for a living. She is quick and organised, the kind of person who wants something to make sense before she lets it in. Her way of staying safe was to plan ahead. She ran the day in her head before it started and tried to guess what other people wanted, so nothing could surprise her. It got her through a hard training year. It also never let her switch off.
What changed was the order. Instead of trying to understand a feeling first, she let it be there, and it eased on its own. She found her own words for it early on: trying to force a change feels surface-level, this felt like working at the roots. After one session she slept better than she had in years, and the next day's pressure could not shake it.
She had worked with Tim once before, in a shorter program, so she already knew the ground. This time it went deeper.
The Honest Part.
This is a middle, not an ending, and that is why she chose to keep going. The letting go, she can do. What is still open is the arriving. Her training is ending, and the big question of what comes next, freedom or a place to settle, is still unanswered. Under it sits a restlessness she names openly. Some of what felt most steady and open in the middle had loosened again by the end. That is not a step back. It is what happens when the surface clears and deeper things come up. She decided to extend the coaching by another four months, to keep going from there instead of stopping at the surface.
Judith
34 years
Former NGO team lead, in transition
"I have far more control over my life since I stopped trying to have it."
Where She started.
She felt like she was living someone else's life. Job, money, child, all of it felt set from outside.
She had just quit her job to make space, and then sat in the empty room: what now?
A thinker by default. In her own words, she went at everything "totally in my head", even though she is a gut person.
Her goal: "more clarity and real trust in myself. To feel that I can do anything I want."
What shifted.
She stopped pushing and let things come to her instead
"Stuck and blocked": down from 10 to 0
Feeling light and alive in her body: up from 3 to 8
"Stuck in my head": down from 8 to 3
Her takeaway: "I have far more control over my life since I stopped trying to have it"
The Story.
Judith thinks for a living. She is quick, well read, the kind of person who wants a frame for everything before she lets it in. For years her engine was wanting and pushing, and it had worked, until it didn't. She came in tired and a little lost, sure that the good things happen for other people, "but not for me".
What changed was the direction. Instead of forcing things, she let them come. Early on she noticed that ideas she had wanted for years started showing up on their own, without her chasing them. "I just did nothing for once, and it came to me." She also found that feelings she had carried for months loosened fast once she let herself feel them instead of thinking them through.
By the end she made a brave choice she had talked herself out of a hundred times, simply because it felt right in her body. Rationally there were a hundred reasons not to. Emotionally it was clear: "I want this."
The Honest Part.
She did not leave with an open wound. Asked what was still unresolved, she said, honestly, "not all that much for now". What stays is more of a practice than a problem. The old voice, "this works, but not for me", still shows up when she is brave, she noticed it the moment she said yes to her next step. The win is not that the voice is gone. The win is that she now hears it for what it is. And she left the next direction deliberately open, trusting that it will come to her.
Lili
35 years
HR Recruiter
Yoga and Meditation Teacher
"I have the feeling this was only the beginning. It went from the surface deeper and deeper."
Where She started.
Years of inner work behind her: yoga, meditation, a 15-day Vipassana, books, retreats.
She knew all the concepts and could name everything, but sensed something was missing.
Six months before the program she realized she understood her feelings but did not actually feel them.
Her goal: "A stable connection to myself and a calm, clear mind. To fully trust life."
What shifted.
She moved from understanding her feelings to actually feeling them, in the body, not just the head.
A real space opened between stimulus and reaction, the change she notices most in daily life.
Inner stability when things are turbulent outside: rose from 4 to 6.
Feeling blocked or stuck: eased over the eight weeks.
Her takeaway: "I think I only really came into true feeling through this coaching."
The Story.
Lili came as someone who had done the work. Teacher trainings, silent retreats, a deep spiritual practice. Her protection was subtle: as long as she could understand and explain a feeling, she never had to actually feel it. The whole journey was about closing the gap between the head and the body.
The shift was concrete, not abstract. Halfway through, traveling and far from everything, she lost all the data on her phone. After a short moment of panic, something let go. "I suddenly felt so released, so calm. Life is for you, when you really surrender." Out of that came the change she points to most: a small space between stimulus and reaction, where she can now choose instead of react on autopilot. Small in the moment, large in effect.
She is honest that the path is not linear. When a heavy day or a wave of apathy returned, she learned to meet it as a passing state rather than her core. A hard day became, in her own words, a gift she could learn from.
The Honest Part.
These eight weeks were not a clean finish, and that is exactly the point. In the final stretch it got hard. Lili was traveling and became so overwhelmed that she cut the trip short and flew home. Right now she is in a rough patch. Coming into real feeling brought something to the surface that had been buried deep for a long time, and now she is ready to face it. The method is not a switch that makes things easy, it is a door. Sometimes what is behind it is heavy before it gets lighter. She chose to keep going from here rather than look away.