Christiane

Tell us about yourself

I am a highly sensitive and empathic soul, having a human experience.

How did you end up in Greece and can you tell us about your life there?

Like many foreign women who end up on one of the islands in the Aegean Sea, I came on holiday, met a local guy and fell in love. In the past, I had ‘escaped’ from Amsterdam after a difficult and very painful relationship, had come to an end. But because I hadn’t resolved any of the issues surrounding it, I still carried its negative energy within me. As a result I ended up attracting the same type of man again and the relationship was not a success. After two years I finally had the guts to end it – I had even arranged my journey back to Amsterdam, when just at that point, I met my soulmate. He is now the love of my life and a man with the greatest inner wisdom. We have been happily married for ten years.

My life in Greece, on Paros, one of the Cyclades islands, now feels kind of magical but this sense of inner happiness didn’t just come overnight. The journey wasn’t always an easy one. Socially I struggled with fitting in and adjusting to culture differences and on top of that I also wrestled with an ongoing personal problem. I had suffered from an eating disorder (bulimia nervosa) for many years and this was triggered a few times during the early years of my time here in Greece.

What’s Your Career Now?

I had always worked in fashion and had had my own accessory brand for many years. I created bespoke leather handbags. However, after eight years of crafting each of them myself by hand, my arms were in constant pain. That was when I realized that something needed to drastically change.

Feeling a bit down and depressed, my eye happened to fall upon a six week ‘Self-Development’ workshop, created by a person who is nowadays, a very dear friend. A whole new world on ‘Gaia’ opened up to me and I immediately felt that this was where my new purpose and my new path lay. But to begin with, I first had to heal myself and peel back layers of conditioning, which had accumulated over the years. Of course this is still an ongoing process, but nowadays I am also guiding other women as well.

After completing a number of training courses as well as using my own personal experiences, I now work as a ‘Holistic Coach’, guiding other women on their own journeys, as they free themselves from being stuck in unhelpful patterns and beliefs on a mental, emotional and energetic level. The term ‘Conscious Women’ came to me, popping into my head, and I just knew intuitively that it was the right name to describe what I do. It’s such a natural process; I feel a flow of energy when I am in a session with a client, which provides confirmation to me that I am on the right path. The greatest gift I have given myself since growing older, is relying with increasing certainty, on my own intuition