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 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.
How Things Began to Change
I turned to things like yoga, meditation, 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.
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.
Learning to Listen Again
My life didn’t change all at once.
I started asking myself the hard questions. I started staying with what felt uncomfortable — moments where I would usually move past something in order not to see it or feel it. I began allowing myself to feel what was actually true for me.
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 and 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 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.
Learning to stay with what I felt. Speaking more truthfully. Questioning ways of being that had once felt normal. Taking my own experience seriously.
And no longer pleasing at the expense of abandoning myself.
I began to see that changing my circumstances would never give me the feeling I was longing for — not if I wasn’t willing to meet what was actually there within me.
Over time, that changed the direction of my life.
I know what it’s like to feel disconnected from yourself. To sense there's more and not know where to begin. I know how confusing and painful that can be — because I’ve lived it.
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 you carry. The identities you’ve formed. The ways you’ve learned to adapt, suppress, push through, or override — often without realizing it.
Through grounded coaching, I support you in letting go of what no longer feels aligned — and in choosing a way of living that reflects who you truly are.
This is what this work is rooted in.
This Work is Close to My Heart
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.
If you're ready, I’m here to walk that path with you.
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More About Janina
I’m an idealist. I believe in a better world — one that's safer, kinder, and more loving. And it starts with each of us taking responsibility for our own healing.
When you do the inner work and begin to live in alignment with what is true for you, you heal from the inside out. And that creates ripples in ways you may never fully see.
Doing this work is one of the most generous and loving things you can do. It’s a gift — not only to yourself, but to the generations before you and for those to come.
Emotional Generator 6/2
Sun in Taurus | Moon in Aries | Rising Sagittarius
Born in Germany.
Home in Portugal.
Soul rooted in Costa Rica.
