Hello dear human...
...My name is Franziska, and I would like to take you on a journey (back) to yourself, to nature, and toward the life that you truly desire from your heart. Perhaps you’re at a point in your life where you feel: This can’t go on, I need to change something; something just doesn’t feel right. Why do the same things keep happening to me? Maybe you sense a longing or curiosity within you, a feeling that there’s more out there for you in this world…
I feel you. I’ve been there, too.
Born in 1986 in Dresden, I was a sensitive adventurer even as a child. Often swimming against the current and running into obstacles because of it, the world was my playground. I read books like Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, explored the world with wide-eyed wonder, and loved nature. From an early age, I asked questions that seemed to have no answers for a long time.
Who am I, really? What is the purpose of my existence and life itself? Where do I belong, and where do I want to go?
Life presented me with great challenges early on. My birth, childhood, and especially my youth were marked by attachment and developmental trauma. Depression, toxic relationships, physical and emotional abuse, suicidal thoughts, impulsive behavior, alcohol abuse, intense and fluctuating emotions, and self-harming actions were part of my journey—mere symptoms of a profound inner emptiness. I felt this emptiness painfully but didn’t know how to fill it, no matter how hard I tried. All I knew was that this couldn’t be it—that there had to be a way out somewhere out there.
The Departure
In 2011, I embarked on my long-awaited journey. I always intuitively knew that I needed to leave Germany to discover who I am and where in the world I would feel safe and at home. My travels began with a few months in Málaga to learn Spanish, followed by two years in Zermatt in the mountains (where I fell in love with the Swiss landscape). Afterward, I set off on a two-year solo backpacking trip around the world, exploring South Africa, India, the stunning landscapes of Southeast Asia, Australia, and the vibrant cultures of Central America.
Those years were filled with countless exciting, beautiful, and challenging moments. In Thailand, for the first time in a long while, I felt like myself again. While fulfilling my dreams of emigrating and traveling freely around the world without a return ticket brought me closer to myself, it didn’t resolve the inner emptiness and the gnawing feeling of not truly belonging anywhere, as I had hoped it would. Despite an exciting lifestyle, wonderful people, crazy experiences, and being in the most beautiful places on Earth, I didn’t feel whole.
When I returned to my chosen home, Switzerland, after my world trip in 2016, and during my first years in Zurich, I became increasingly frustrated and inwardly desperate. No matter how much effort I put in, there seemed to be no way out of my inner pain, aimlessness, and loneliness. By 2018, I slowly began to realize that I was trapped in dysfunctional, repetitive, and limiting patterns and vicious cycles. My desperate search for salvation in the external world clearly wasn’t the right path. It felt like a crack in my reality.
The Year Everything Changed
In 2019, my life was turned completely upside down. My relationship and the most important friendship in my life ended, leaving me stunned for weeks. Floating in a completely empty space, I questioned everything—especially myself. I realized there was something I hadn’t been able to face, something that had unconsciously influenced my life for so long. I ended my party lifestyle, cut off numerous connections, and embarked on intensive years of learning and self-discovery.
I delved into psychology, astrology, quantum physics, Buddhism, hypnosis, and spirituality. I started meditating, began writing regularly again, and took courses in personal development. The mountains and nature, which drew me in more and more, reawakened an old, familiar sense of peace and strength within me, and I remembered my deep inner connection to them. I traveled back to Thailand to further explore my spirituality and different forms of meditation.
In Switzerland and Italy, I had several profound, life-changing experiences with traditional shamanic plant medicine, which I further deepened in 2021 in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. Experiencing the Amazon had always been a dream of mine, and it touched me deeply to be there and witness its indescribable beauty. At the same time, it was shocking to see the destruction and significantly shifted my professional vision.
The Now
Layer by layer, in an ongoing process, I’m letting go of things, habits, and people that no longer belong to me, allowing a sense of inner peace and self-love to take root and deepen.
Today, I embrace my adventurous life journey with a deep sense of connection and gratitude for life itself. I still have countless questions, experience both joy and pain and remain an eternal student. I feel more like myself today than ever before, know where I want to go, and trust that life always has my best interests at heart, no matter what happens externally.
Why am I sharing all this with you?
It’s a heartfelt mission of mine to share what I’ve learned along the way with people who are going through similar experiences. I’ve come to realize how healing it is to open up, to show yourself as you truly are, and to create genuine connections. Through my story and my work, I want to inspire others to lovingly address their inner wounds, reconnect with nature, their strength, and their intuition, and offer empathetic, experienced support on their journey of self-discovery, crisis management, and unlocking their potential.
I firmly believe that our world needs people who look inward and begin to make the changes within themselves that they long to see in the external world.
And it’s never too late for that.
