I remember my first session with Alina, few months ago. Actually it was not started as a session and it was not supposed to be a session but an informal dialogue about my relocation in the Netherlands. What I didn’t knew back there was that I was in the turning point of my whole life as I knew it. And that conversation will be the start of a magical, deep, transformational, unbelievable process.
It all started with Alina asking me to just pause and breathe for few seconds and start the conversation again. By the end of this first meeting we decided to start the coaching journey. And what a journey it was… I must confess that at first I was intrigued. Alina addresses the most challenging parts of the problem/topic unlike other coaches whom just tend to surface and lightly dance in the moment, at least in the beginning.
Therefore, one by one, I identified and brought to the burning light, with higher and higher speed, all of my limitative beliefs. Soon I discovered that my real problem was not getting away as far as possible from my (perceived) disappointing native country, but the ongoing nurturing of a very solid and sophisticated mechanism of lying and hiding from my real self.
During this tough process, when my body and my emotions were in a very high speed, exhausting carousel, Alina was right beside me, every single day. Yes, even in between our weekly coaching sessions I felt accompanied, held, safe with the vocal messages and emails with all sort of soothing techniques.
Alina has a wealth of methods and techniques in her backpack, but none prevails her intuition, warmness, firmness, genuine humour and great accountability. And, what is important to say is that she is a perfect holder for the client’s agenda, even when the client himself tends to suddenly switch to “other” important (but soon to find out) side topics.
Working with her intensely and extensively I was able to leave a helpless, life draining state of (almost not) being and access an unknown state of flow with almost every aspects of my personal and professional life. After 6 months of hard, but fulfilling work, I barely recognize myself, it’s like I am having new DNA, new skin, new breath. And all of my friends and clients acknowledge the same. It feels now just like I was able to travel back in time, choose a completely differently path -this time honouring all of my deepest values and grounded instincts, and come back in another present, this time with trust, gratefulness and unwavering love.
