My story

I know what it feels like when life suddenly comes to a standstill.

For years, I supported others as a coach and community care worker.

Until my own body asked me to live everything I had spent years teaching.

In my work, I guided people through some of life's most vulnerable seasons.

I specialized in emotional regulation and helping people find their way back to themselves.

Then everything changed.

What began as a physical crisis became a complete transformation.

Self-abandonment, nervous system regulation, and relationship patterns were no longer subjects I talked about.

They became my everyday reality.

Out of that journey, my memoir The Woman Who Stayed was born.

I live in the Netherlands and I'm the mother of two daughters.

I write about radical self-loyalty, feminine strength without armor, and love without losing yourself.

Why I write

I am not here 

to make things more beautiful than they are.

I am here

to stay.