LIVING WITH AN AUTOIMMUNE CONDITION
BURNTOUT & CHRONIC FATIGUE
WHO YOU’D BE WORKING WITH
I’m Monika. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 27, and told I might not walk again. I did walk again, and even had ten years in remission. Rebuilding my relationship with my body from the ground up was the main reason it happened.
Ten years later, doing everything I had learned, I burnt out badly enough to end up bedridden. Yep, another chaos. Light, noise, food, all of it too much. It took a long time and several wrong turns before anyone identified what was actually driving it. The good thing, I found the root cause of it all.
Even trying all the protocols, what changed things was learning to read the story of my body, and going deep on the signalling. It was also, learning to build a life that could hold a new me. A healthy me.
That is the work I now do with women who are somewhere in the middle of their own version of it.
Counsellor · NLP Practitioner · Certified Meditation Teacher · Executive Coach
Meditation teacher on Insight Timer · Co-author of Unzenable: A Guide to Stress Less & Be More
SHORT DOCUMENTARY · 10 MINUTES
Years after being told I might not walk again, I climbed Mount Roraima — a flat-topped mountain on the Venezuelan border, six days on foot. The film is about what that climb asked of me, and what it gave back.
It is ten minutes. It is not on YouTube. If you want to understand how I work before you speak to me, start here.
QUARTER FINALIST – SERBEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Six phases, your route, at your own pace. Sessions are one hour, and the sequence gives order to organise your information. The key for clarity.
The patterns underneath. Over-responsibility, suppressed anger, and the boundaries that were never set.
Back to solid ground. Your own Roraima: the goal that makes the work worth doing.
Building capacity. How stress moves through the body, how energy works, how to settle a system that will not calm down.
Old mental programmes come into view. This is where they get rewired.
Integration. Intuition, purpose, and living it rather than managing it.
The destination. Not a session. What you leave with.
I regained my self-confidence and learnt tools to manage situations that cause me a lot of stress, without establishing a codependent relationship with my coach.
Y.M. Accountant
She transmits safety and confidence, and her coaching sessions give a feeling that let me open up and be honest, feeling I would not be judged.
Lily P. Coach & Therapist
Monika helped me discover my strengths, supported my weakest points, and gave me the impulse to create an idea that is working.
L. Suarez Statistic Analyst
I was transported to a beautiful meadow, where I felt a deep connection to the earth, the universe and my body. Wonderfully healing on all levels.
Carol Jennings Canada
I feel so relaxed, renewed and strengthened after following along for the very first time, and hope to practise it daily. It was truly wonderful.
Janice
In Search of Strength — Quarter Finalist, Serbest International Film Festival
Most significant health issues or challenges in life can be understood as wake-up calls to transform your life and to grow. It is your body communicating with you. The key to manage any crisis relies on the right mindset and the ability to manage stress, anxiety and fear.