Hey — I’m Janina

My Path Into This Work Wasn’t Linear

It started as a feeling I couldn’t ignore anymore.

Something in my life just didn’t feel right.

From the outside, things looked good. I had interesting jobs, moved between different countries, and was doing what I thought I was supposed to be doing.

But internally, it felt different.

I felt deeply disconnected from myself. Unsure of where I was going or what I wanted. Like I was trying to make a life work that didn’t really fit me.

Something Didn’t Feel Right

I didn’t reach a one big turning point. But there came a moment where I knew I couldn’t keep going the way I had been.

Not because everything had fallen apart — but because how I was living no longer felt sustainable.

It simply felt like I wasn’t fully myself. Like somewhere along the way, I had moved away from what was true for me.

I didn’t know exactly what needed to change. I just knew something had to.

I started paying attention to how I was living — and to the choices I was making, often without realizing it.

The ways I was adapting, avoiding, pushing through, and suppressing. I looked at how I wasn’t really listening to what I felt, needed, or wanted.

And the more I paid attention, the clearer it became:

I had built a life that looked good on the outside — but didn’t feel true to me.

And once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it.

How things began to change

I turned to things like yoga, meditation, journaling, and mindset work.

Not intentionally, and not because I had a plan — but because I was searching for something that might help me feel differently.

And while those are tools and practices I deeply value and continue to use, they alone didn’t change things.

What began to change things, was becoming honest with myself.

Learning to listen again

My life didn’t change all at once.

It was a process that started in small, uncomfortable moments. Moments where I would usually move past something in order not to see it or feel it — and I started staying with it instead.

Most of us weren’t taught how to listen to ourselves.

We were taught how to meet expectations, to keep things working, to take care of others, and to be a version of ourselves that is accepted.

And somewhere in that, we lose connection with ourselves our own signals — and with what is true for us.

Doing this work wasn’t easy. At times, it asked more of me than I expected. It required willingness and courage.

But it’s also some of the most meaningful work I’ve ever done.

What I Came to Understand

Looking back, what shifted things wasn’t the tools themselves.

It was how I started to relate to myself differently.

Learning to stay with what I felt. Expressing myself more truthfully. Questioning the ways of being that had once felt normal. Taking my own experience seriously.

And no longer pleasing at the expense of abandoning myself.

Over time, that began to change the direction of my life.

This work is close to my heart

I know what it’s like to feel disconnected from yourself. To sense there's more and not know where to begin. I’ve lived that.

Today I support others on that same path.

I hold space for what’s real, what’s tender, and what’s quietly asking to be seen.

Not just what’s on the surface, but what’s sitting deep beneath.

The beliefs they carry. The identities they’ve formed. The ways they’ve learned to adapt, suppress, push through, or override themselves — often without realizing it.

And together, we begin to see those more clearly, stay with what usually gets avoided, and create space for something different to emerge.

This is what this work is rooted in.

Training & Approach

I trained as a mind-body coach with The Embody Lab.

Which means we don’t only look at your thoughts — but also at your emotional experience, your body, and your nervous system.

Because these are not separate. They are all part of how your experiences, responses, and ways of relating are formed — and how they change.

This work is also trauma-informed.

Not because we are focused on treating trauma — but because when deeper experiences arise, they are met with care, respect, and at a pace that feels manageable for you.

You are never pushed. And you are never without choice in the process.