During one coaching session, my mentor said something that has stuck with me: “Everything you know will travel with you and will serve as a foundation for your future coaching business”. That day, I realized that my life could impact more people and give meaning to my life.

“It got so bad at one point, I was calmly considering ending things, and when I finally left, I was in a deep depression (even if I didn’t realize it at the time).”

“The biggest life transition that impacted me was not my move to a foreign country, but the return to the one I was born….

…My way of living became so different, I learned an entirely opposite way to live so much so that I became a foreigner in both countries.”

“J’ai choisi de voir le verre à moitié plein. À ma santé ! Que pouvais-je faire d’autre ? J’allais avoir d’autres responsabilités avec mon enfant, et j’ignorais encore quelle mère j’allais incarner. Peut-être était-ce donc l’occasion de prendre le temps pour lui, pour moi ? Ce temps que je n’avais jamais eu, parce que je courrais sans cesse par monts et par vaux…”

“My dream of starting a new career in marketing soon started to dwindle. The more resumes I sent out, the more my self-esteem took a plunge. I started to believe that no one would ever want to hire me and began to feel resentment towards Austrians. And the worst part, I started to resent my partner. It’s not easy seeing your partner’s career take off really fast, while yours seems to be going down the drain even faster.”

“I have no regrets about these events even if I didn’t have any control because they led me to where I am today and I couldn't be happier. I met friends and made a family in Paris. I am actually grateful because I would have had a different life and met different people. This was the first major transition of my life.  As a child, your mother is everything. I can’t even think about how I felt as I look at my own kids and would start crying if something like that happened to them. Fear, sadness, anger, not understanding what is happening to you. Losing what your world is about when you are at that age… ”

“I realized that by telling my loved ones and my therapist what is going on with me and keeping them updated, I am in many ways being held accountable to make better decisions and generally get others’ feedback on my life and relationships. Openness is a practice I’m developing (it isn’t a reflex for me) and that is a work in progress, but it has changed my life in an incredibly positive way. Every relationship in my life is stronger with the trust that comes from confiding in my loved ones.”

“Initially I took the idea of being pregnant hard. I could only think how motherhood would change the life I had and the future I wanted- or thought I wanted. I didn’t stop to think it would change ME. How it would change me as an individual. But on May 26, 2022, at 7:32 pm, Motherhood gracefully came knocking on my door and changed me forever.”

“I am (was) a type-A mom who likes to be in control. High strung who used to believe that my children’s actions were a complete reflection of me as a parent (I no longer feel this way)”

“My biggest life transition began in October of 2016 when my husband of 32 years passed away quite suddenly of cancer. The event turned my life upside down. My house of 25 years was too large to live in on my own. I sold the house and moved into a townhouse in the same city. I put my work on hold until January of 2017.”