About Me
Hi, I’m Kristina
I help women own their shadows so they can own their lives.
Here’s my own shadow work journey:
from hiding my gifts for 40 years to helping women integrate theirs.
If you’re navigating a major life transition and are ready to own your shadows – read on.
My Story
I was born in Bremen in 1965. Even as a child, I was sensitive in ways that made me different.
I talked to angels and tree spirits. I saw energies in vivid colours swirling around the room. To me, this was normal. Natural.
But the rest of my family thought I was crazy.
I was laughed at. Ridiculed. I quickly learned it wasn’t safe to talk about these things. For a while, I even developed a stutter because I wasn’t sure what I could and couldn’t say.
Inside, I kept searching. For meaning, for kindred spirits. But on the outside, I pretended to be “normal”. Keeping things to myself became a way of life. A shadow that followed me for 40 years.
At 16, I secretly started meditating. I knew, deep down, there was more to life. I was looking for my true self, my purpose, the meaning of it all.
In my early 20s, I moved to London — just for two years, I thought. That turned into 30.
I worked as a photographer first, then set up my own language school. The business did well. From the outside, everything looked successful.
But I was still living a double life. At work, I hid my spiritual side completely. I played the role of the professional businesswoman. Meanwhile, inside, my inner quest went on. I meditated. I read everything I could find. I went to workshops, different teachers, guides, and healers.
For me, spirituality means not only connecting more deeply with the Divine, but also connecting more deeply with yourself. So the deeper I went spiritually, the more deeply I had to look at myself.
I looked at my deepest fears — being excluded, not having anyone in my corner who would stand up for me. And I realised one of my core needs was to be known. Understood. Not for the mask I was wearing, but for who I actually was.
And of course, life gave me exactly what I needed to work with.
Relationships with men who couldn’t see me. Friends who wouldn’t stand up for me. Situations that mirrored back everything I was still hiding. Again and again. The same patterns, different faces.
I kept trying to fix things from the outside. Change the circumstances. Find the right person. Make the business work better.
But nothing changed. Because I didn’t yet have the courage to look at what was in the shadows.
Then came 2016.
My relationship of 21 years ended. After two decades of building a life with someone, I was suddenly alone.
I was devastated. Completely unmoored. I didn’t know who I was without that relationship, without that identity. Single again after all that time?! It was scary. I felt grief, fear, rage. Rage at the time I had wasted. Rage at myself for staying so long in something that wasn’t right. Rage at how much of my life I’d spent hiding.
I was 51.
The turning point was realising it was not too late. To start living my own life. To become myself.
So I let go of everything.
My flat in London. My business. The life I’d built over three decades. I came out of the spiritual closet — fully, unapologetically — and I went travelling on a pilgrimage. Full time, around the world.
A walking pilgrimage in Japan. Becoming one with nature in New Zealand and observing wild orangutans in Borneo. Volunteering at a burnout recovery centre in Thailand, walking meditations with monks. Eventually I settled down in Bali for a few years.
And on that entire journey — in the jungles, mountain, and meditations — I finally started to integrate all those split-off parts of myself.
The sensitive child who saw angels. The woman who’d kept stumm about her deepest feelings, her experiences and realisations for forty years.
That’s when I finally understood what I’d been doing all along. Shadow work. The deep, often uncomfortable work of facing what you’ve buried, sit with it, feel it, make peace with it. Own it. And outgrow it.
And bit by bit, I found what I’d been searching for since I was 16: my true self. My purpose. The meaning of life.
It really is true: own your shadow, own your life.
What I Know Now
I know how it feels to wake up thinking, “Is this it?”
I know what it’s like to be stuck — in patterns you can’t seem to break, no matter how hard you try.
I know the grief of realising you’ve been living inauthentically. The rage at wasted time. The fear that it’s too late.
But here’s what else I know: the monster we keep running from, that we’d do anything to avoid — when we finally have the courage to face it, it’s not that bad. Not that big, not that ugly.
And the profound freedom that comes when you finally stop running from yourself? That’s real.
That’s what I help other women discover.
My Approach
I work with women going through major life transitions — awakening, empty nest, career questioning, or that urgent feeling that time is running out to be yourself.
My coaching is spiritual but practical. Not academic. Not woo-woo. Just real, deep work that creates actual freedom. And joy.
Look at the patterns keeping you stuck
Bring light to the shadows
Integrate what’s been hidden
And through that work, you discover your own true self.
My Training & Tools
Certifications:
- Energy Life Coach, The Coaching Institute (California), 2021
- Activation Life Coach, The Coaching Institute (California), 2025
My approach includes:
- Shadow work and integration
- Guided meditation and visualisation
- Somatic awareness and embodiment practices
- Pattern recognition and interruption
- Inner parts work
- Practical action steps for daily life
My intuition guides each session. I tune in to what you need in the moment and use whatever tools will serve you best.
Who I’ve Worked With
Over the years, I’ve supported women from all walks of life — entrepreneurs, creatives, executives, mothers, healers, and seekers — to break free from unconscious patterns and step into authentic living.
Client Love
A Bit More About Me
After 33 years of living abroad, I came back to Germany to look after my elderly mum. I manifested my dream apartment in a dream part of town in Hamburg.
I’m still a traveller at heart. I still meditate daily. And I’m still doing my own shadow work — because this path doesn’t end, it deepens.
My life and soul contract in under 2 minutes
My beliefs, values, and spiritual path in under 1 minute
If This Is You
You feel lost, empty, or stuck in patterns you can’t break.
You’re asking yourself:
- Who am I really?
- What do I actually want?
- How do I stop repeating the same mistakes?
You’re in a transition and something inside is demanding to emerge.
Then you’re in the right place.
Ready to start?
Book a Discovery Session and let’s see where your shadows want to take you.
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