The Courage to Change
Change is rarely comfortable. Most of us spend years trying to create stability, routines, and identities that make life feel predictable and safe. Yet the moments that shape us most profoundly often begin when something no longer fits, be it career, relationship, where we live, or even the version of ourselves we have outgrown. Change asks us to step into uncertainty before we know where it will lead. And that takes courage.
For a long time, I believed life should follow a rational and carefully planned path. After university, I began my career in the private sector before returning to academia and graduate studies. Then an unexpected opportunity in international development took my life in a completely new direction and opened the door to an international career that would shape the next chapter of my life.
Over the years, I lived in ten countries across three continents and travelled to nearly one hundred more. Experiencing different cultures and constantly adapting to new environments transformed not only how I see the world, but also how I understand people, interpersonal connections, and, most importantly, myself. Every transition required letting go of old identities and build a new one in an environment of uncertainty.
For most of my life, I approached the world intellectually. I was deeply rational, analytical, and scientifically minded. But eventually I realised that understanding life logically is not the same as living it. Some of the biggest transformations happen when we allow space for creativity, intuition, emotion, and spirituality.
So eventually my last transformation led me to leave my conventional “9 to 5” corporate job and go freelance to focus fully on helping people navigate their own transformations using schema coaching on the cognitive level to understand why we are stuck in life, and Reiki on the spiritual level to reconnect mind, body, and spirit into a balanced whole.
Looking back, none of the biggest transformations in my life arrived at convenient moments. But every meaningful chapter began the moment I stopped resisting change and started trusting the process.
As Carl Jung wrote: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
