When my psychotherapy peers described me as a "free spirit", I was surprised. After all, I had always been the shy one, the passive one, the invisible one. How had I suddenly turned into a visible, free-spirited woman who knew what she wanted? Does this resonate with you? Would you like to know how that kind of change is possible?

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Living abroad helped me, at first. I could wrap myself in a foreign skin, a foreign language, and hide. I was too sensitive; later on I discovered I was a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). If people hurt me, I was fine because I hadn't shown my true self. However, that felt utterly lonely. Finding places where you truly belong when you live abroad often seems harder; you can't even find belonging in your country of origin anymore (I tried). That's because you are no longer the same person. You are a mosaic of different cultures, beings, and aspects of life.

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I love mosaic art, and I love the image of our lives as mosaics that we create with different pieces. I often described my sensitivity as a blessing and a curse at the same time. I could understand people very well, and that hurt so, so much at times.

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When a deep crisis in my life brought me to my knees, I decided to show myself: to risk being different, too sensitive, too intense, too foreign, and to search for the places and the people where I belonged. I realised that the true place of belonging was all inside me. My self-acceptance and love (on which I am still working every day) is what makes it possible for me to feel loved, to belong, to connect to others and the world. That is the power of a true free spirit!

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If you resonate with this, please know that you are not alone. I am here to help you transform the mosaic pieces of your difference and your sensitivity into a beautiful work of art through creative energy psychotherapy.