A Note from Kristina

They called me a dreamer.

Thank God for that.

At eighteen, I moved from Slovakia to London to study law. I worked three jobs alongside university and honestly did not mind. It has always been my dream to study and live abroad. 

Before starting my law degree, i was choosing between law and psychology. I was fascinated by both. I loved topics of justice, philosophy, human behaviour, and the question of why we do what we do. I chose law because I believed in justice, and I still do. But my attention kept drifting to the person behind the problem. Why do we stay in situations that no longer serve us? Why is saying no so difficult? Why can capable, intelligent people achieve a great deal and still wonder whether they are enough?

During university, I worked at a yoga studio, and that is where I truly discovered self-development. No no, I am not only talking about the 5 a.m. alarm clock. It was the first time I realised my inner life deserved as much attention as my ambition. That saying “no” did not make me unkind, and that someone else's disappointment was not my fault and responsibility. 

After graduating I completed the Legal Practice Course, then an LL.M., and built a career across law and corporate governance. I worked with senior executives and board members, led international projects, and became part of a professional world I had once only imagined. I loved parts of it, and I remain genuinely proud of what I achieved. It also taught me how easily a life can meet every expectation and still leave something essential unattended. I know, because I spent years staring at my screen, wondering if that was it. 

Alongside my career I never stopped studying: human behaviour, relational dynamics, yoga, and female tantra, by which I mean the study of the female body, self-love and self-acceptance. It has taught me that growth does not begin with fixing ourselves and doing more. Sometimes it is about accepting the person we already are. For a lifelong perfectionist who could always find the next thing to improve, that was close to revolutionary. Coaching became my full time job later, however I had already been exploring it for years.

Eventually I had to start living what I had spent years learning. I left a relationship. I stepped away from the career I had worked so hard to build. I moved to Lisbon during the pandemic because I had always wondered what life by the ocean might feel like. I trained as a coach through Mindvalley and I continue my education today at the Advaita School of Ethicotherapy.