My story,

one of many stories I could tell, but essentially the one that lies underneath all of my creations… When our daughter was four years old, she jumped over a fire at winter solstice and turned to me with complete seriousness. "Mum," she said, "I wish I would never have to go to school."

And she meant it the way only children can mean things: from somewhere so deep it bypasses all the filters that we, as adults, spend years and decades building. She had no idea what it actually meant to say that out loud. She just said it.

I did know what it meant. As I had spent most of my life pretending the opposite.

Lächelnde Frau mit nassem Haar in einem Wald.

I had always been the sensitive one. Feeling everything: The energy of rooms, the weight of what was unspoken, the grief of places, the quiet aliveness of forests and lakes and open sky. I grew up in rural North Eastern Germany, close to nature in a way some children grow up close to screens today: it was just where I went to feel real.

But sensitivity wasn't something my world had much room for. And I early learned to perform and fit in instead. I studied classical guitar, with competitions, grades and discipline, when what I actually wanted was to sit by a fire and just play and sing, with no one watching and nothing to prove. I was always the good student. I followed the given path all the way through school and into university, into a career in economic development in a big city. It was a life that looked perfectly right from the outside.

It was full and busy and deeply, quietly wrong for me.

And then our daughter came. And with her: a brutal, honest kind of dismantling I hadn't planned for.

Putting her in institutions early just didn't feel right. Not as a philosophy, but as clear as anything I'd ever known. So I stayed at home. Let go of the career, the city, the version of myself I'd been carefully assembling. Moved back to the Baltic Sea, close to where I was born and grew up. Started practicing yoga. Started, slowly, learning to trust the things I had always felt but never allowed myself to name.

When she was four and stood at that fire and spoke her truth, I recognised it instantly. Because it was mine too. Just finally said out loud by someone who hadn't yet learned to swallow it.

We got in a campervan. Travelled around Europe for a year. Finally settled in a small house in southern Denmark and chose to homeschool. Her brother was born. And life kept asking us to let go of what we thought it was supposed to look like. And again and again, we did.

In 2022 we were called to move to Bornholm. A rugged island. A big piece of land. Something in me began to open in ways I hadn't expected. The elements, the light, the stillness, and a depth within myself that seemed to have no bottom.

I found what I thought was my tribe: people who spoke the language I was learning. Who talked about energy and consciousness and love. Until their words didn't match their choices and way of being anymore. If loneliness has a final base line, that was what I felt. Having to care for a family, a piece of land and a broken heart at the same time.

I know what it is to be between worlds with no map and no one who speaks your language. I know the disorientation of perceiving reality differently and having nowhere to put it. I know the specific loneliness of spiritual community that asks you to perform its version of light rather than meet your own darkness honestly.

And I know that, when we chose to stay open, to hope, to ask, to live, we can never really be lost. Suddenly, unexpectedly, new ways, new relationships opened. People who held me without agenda, who helped me access something in myself I hadn't known was there. Who embodied themselves so pure and honest that I finally understood, from the inside, what real safety feels like.

From that experience, I could start giving again.

And this is what I'm building and sharing now myself. Not from any theory, and not from longing alone. From the imprint of what it feels like to be truly held, and from the knowledge of how much it changes everything.

In 2024, during a plant medicine retreat, I felt how caged my heart had become throughout all these years. Physically. A tightness that had always been there and therefore felt normal. And I understood, that this human journey of ours is “just” about that: Letting our heart crack again and again, so we can remember who we are beyond the layers and layers and layers of trauma, protection, fear, conditioning and darkness.

And what I'd been circling around for years, suddenly became clear: that light and dark are not opposites, not separate. That there is only one stream, one source, and that all the suffering, all the confusion, all the searching comes from being cut off from it. That the most radical thing a human being can do is simply come home to themselves.

To come and to be home. And to let anything else be anything else.

That's what I am here to assist with.

Not because I have all the answers. Because my experiences are valid. And so are yours. Because I deeply know the disorientation, the sensitivity, the strange aloneness of standing between what you used to believe and something vast you can't yet name. Because I deeply know the one source we all carry within. The one love, the one power, the one truth that kept me going through finding my own ground, again and again, while raising children and tending a house and carrying a family and trying to remember who I was underneath all of it.

All my creations flow from here, knowing that our capacity to meet life fully comes only from a place of inner safety. I hold The Cradle because I needed it once, and I couldn't find it myself. I sing to remember. I speak to uncover.

You don't have to find your ground alone. But you might have to create space within yourself to hear your quiet inner knowing. And to follow through.

With all my love and gratitude,

Lisa


Lisa lives on Bornholm with her family, where she makes music, creates ceremonial drums by hand, and guides people navigating their own awakening. Back to the one thing that was always already there.