Professional education and many years of experience allow me to work successfully, both individually and in groups all over the world

My education and professional experience

My education and professional experience

In 2019 I finalized the international certification for PCC level (Professional Certified Coach) in the International Coaching Federation. This is the second level of three possible, granted after completion of education in accordance with the ICF international standards, after over 500 hours of coaching practice, passing mentoring and supervision programs and an international examination.

This is a challenging journey of personal and professional development for every coach.

Each of us can wake up one day and understand that they don't belong to the place they live in, to the person they live with, that the life they live is not their life.

This understanding will be clear and irreversible.

Yes, it doesn't happen in one moment.

This viscous annoying sensation builds up gradually. It walks like a shadow. Day after day, year after year it is gaining a critical mass, until one day a person opens their eyes and understands everything. From this second back there is no more road.

I too woke up with this feeling once – with a wild sense of living life that is not mine.

I didn't live in the place of my dreams, my relationship with my husband were screaming divorce, my work was fine, but it didn't bring me joy, my body was not mine after bearing a child.

I did not understand how all of this happened. When and how did I lose myself? What do I do with it? Where do I get strength for change? At some point, I went to see a coach.

These were invaluable two hours of my life. No judgment. With space for me – they way that I am. For the first time in my life, I was able to tell the whole truth about how I live and how I want to live without being afraid to be judged or not being understood.

I came out from that session with a major discovery: "Love lives within me. It does not dependent on others. I don't need to be comfortable to be loved."

Divorce was not long in coming. Yes, it did hurt. But I got over it easier than I expected. Coaching helped, it opened up the resources within me that I didn't even know about.

After the divorce I began to travel. I was dreaming about this from the age of seven, but my ex-husband was always against me traveling without him. I finally felt free. I started opening myself to the world and in return the world opened up the opportunities that I have sincerely wanted.

I received a proposal to represent Peter Wrycza – the world-renowned coach and trainer – in Russia and organize programs at his retreat center in Bali. Being a successful manager at the that time, I accepted this offer without hesitation. My dream to study coaching further and change job came true at the same time.

Ahead of me were four years of intensive training and personal transformation with Peter Wrycza and Stuart Heller's School of Nonverbal Coaching. Ahead were meetings with amazing, beautiful, deep and wise people, my friends, teachers, and colleagues.

Along with this, I was brining my body in order. I've became certified in nutrition and fitness.

I ve continued to travel a lot.

Gradually, I began to live more and more in harmony with what was valuable to me, what I loved and really wanted. I began to do what I love. And once I've met a person right for me .

Today I live in Los Angeles, enjoying the year-round sun and jogging by the ocean. Yes, I have also found a favorite place.

I have a wonderful husband and son.

I study because I like to study, and I think that people need development like they need air.

I work with people around the world, face to face and online.

I develop my business with inspiration and joy.

Every month I visit some new unexplored corner in our world.

In the summer of 2018 I've fulfilled my most cherished dream – I've traveled around the world in 80 days.

I definitely know a lot about dreams and how to make them true. And I am grateful for that morning when I woke up and found myself in the life that was not mine. Turns out that was the beginning of the one that is!

People often tell me "you are so lucky to be athletic", "you are healthy, you can work out", "you are slim, with this body type you can be thin without diet" – usually this is what they start with and then continue "but I am built differently" or "my back aches after having a baby", "my metabolism is slow, I am getting weight just from looking at food", "regular workouts? – no, I have weak joints, heart, arteries…", "I don't have time".

People tend to explain other successes as luck.

So how "lucky" am I?

At the age of 9 I was diagnosed with heart valve prolapse. It caused difficulties with blood circulation during physical activity. Basically, I couldn't run without getting sick. I was excluded from PE throughout school years and was growing up weak, sickly and very skinny girl. My physical condition was worsened my emotional state as everyone around me was telling me how alarmingly skinny I was and were trying to feed me or 'heal' me. As a result, I was convinced there was something wrong with me. Over the next few years I had a feeling that everything could be changed. The inner voice repeated louder and louder: "yes, you can!"

At 15 I braved up and started running. From all the books that I could find about cardio loads I realized the main thing: you need to run regularly, gradually increasing the load. My first distance was 200 meters at the stadium nearby. I couldn't run any longer – I was feeling sick. I was running through any weather, any mood. I would simply wake up in the morning and go to the stadium before school – I did it for myself. I did it for life.

The next step was winter swimming and then the gym. There I've found a hardening, and after the gym. Here I found a friend – her name was Alya, she was a competitive gymnast – and we are friends ever since. We have supported each other, and the wheels started to roll.

By the age of 16 I ran 10 laps – 4 km, I gained weight correctly, did stretching, and was actively going yoga. From a sick child I turned into a healthy young teenager.

By the age of 18 I forgot about heart problems: prolapse decreased and stopped bothering me. But then I've started having weight issues. It was time for exams and I was eating everything – candies, cookies, cakes. I was eating away my fatigue and stress. I gained 7 kilos. It doesn't seem much but after being used to being so skinny throughout childhood it was a disaster. I did not accept my body like that, I was fighting with those kilos. This was the beginning of fasting, all kinds of diets, intensified workouts 6 times a week. I would lose weight and then gain t back and it was exhausting.

At 25 I became pregnant with my son and gained 17 kilograms. After giving birth I hated looking at myself in the mirror. It was extremely painful, not easy to except and even harder to admit it. But I know that many women go through the same and therefore I am sharing my story. I didn't take pictures as I simply couldn't bare looking at my photos. It seemed that this isn't me, this isn't my body, this isn't my life.

Ironically, this time I've lost weight easily: I was breastfeeding my son and as he was allergic, I desperately followed a popular advice and was only eating buckwheat and sautéed vegetables for a year. As a result, I've lost a lot of weight and soon I've heard all this question that I was so familiar with since childhood: "are you all right?"

No, I was absolutely not all right. I was exhausted and once again I have found reassurance in sweets. And once again I've gained 10 kilograms, once again there was self-blame and frustration.

«y that time, I was already studying to become a transformational coach, and it helped me to understand that fighting with myself is not an option. We had a joke: "Fighting yourself is a stupid occupation, even if you win, then how will you discard the dead body?"

I had to make systemic changes in my attitude towards myself, my habits. I realized that I want to live in harmony with myself, my body, to accept and love myself, eat deliciously and to not feel hunger.

I went to study nutritiology in order to change my eating habits and get to weight that was comfortable for me without fasting. At the same time, I deepened my coaching practice, I was working a lot with awareness and self-acceptance. It was not easy. My body and my mind resisted change to the full extend. At the same time, I began to notice how strongly food and life patterns are connected, how holistically we are arranged.

I reached my target weight in six months, but it took me another year to embed new positive habits to unconscious level and to completely rebuild myself. I freed myself from addictions and felt a healthy balance. I learned to hear and understand the needs of my body, to give it enough exercise and relaxation, plenty of wholesome and tasty food, but also plenty of love!

To my surprise, my friends bombarded me with questions again, but this time it was about my wonderful changes, they asked me to share my experience. This is how I started consulting and my personal story became my profession – a profession I love and believe in, after all I lived through this journey with every cell in all honesty.

Am I fortunate to have a healthy, toned and beautiful body?

Many people think so.

And I smile back and know that I was lucky to meet the like-minded people, teachers and an inner voice that once said to me: "you can."

Now I can confidently say to my clients: "yes, you can" and carefully accompany them along this way.