Leaving the old world, creating what comes next.

Born in the Black Forest, reinvented in Singapore, rebuilt in Bali. In between came a Buddhist path, a business, a burnout, and a year of travelling that gave me my faith back.

Starting from a suitcase

I was born in the Black Forest in Germany, and at 27 I moved to Singapore with one suitcase and three months of savings. I'd fallen for Southeast Asia while backpacking through Indonesia and Thailand. I stood in a phone booth calling German companies until one said yes. At 31, I found Buddhism, and later my guru, the late VV Thrangu Rinpoche. Yearly retreats in Nepal and India followed, and I become a novice nun twice.

At 40, I left my job and built a business around essential oils and other healing modalities, growing a network of 100,000 members. I wrote a book and travelled the world sharing the benefits of natural healing and entrepreneurial wisdom.

The Abyss

Then, at 49, a divorce after 13 years of marriage, a health crisis and the pandemic stopped everything. I believed willpower would carry me through. It didn't. Because my income from Young Living kept coming in I was able to slow down, feel what I'd been avoiding, and be gentler with myself and allowed myself the long needed rest. After surgery for a deviated septum, I finally learned to breathe deeply, and my nervous system began to reset.