At 35, I left.
My biggest worry as a young girl was that I’d turn into one of “those adults” — the ones drifting through life with no passion while time passes aimlessly.
Then I became one. Four years into a corporate career, after I’d mastered the presentations, hit the targets, and impressed the bosses, a ten-year-old girl inside me started asking me to wake up. She’d show up during car journeys to meetings, while I was out jogging, or just as my eyes were about to shut after another long day.
“Don’t live a life you’ll regret,” she’d say. “Stop wasting your time.”
So I bought a one-way ticket. One bag. No return date. People called it brave, or reckless, or extreme. But for someone who’d been a flight attendant, lived in Venice at 22, and walked the Israel Trail with a broken ankle — the unknown was never outside my comfort zone.
Stepping into the unknown was coming home.
A castle in France. Circling retreats in the Netherlands. Six months writing in LA and San Francisco. Then Costa Rica, where I met my partner at a beach party under a full moon — just before the world shut down.
Today I live in Amsterdam with my partner and our two kids. I’m still finding cages I didn’t know I’d built. The latest ones have nothing to do with career or love — they’re about what happens when you decide to stop keeping your insights to yourself and actually share them with the world.
(Also, my pancakes got an upgrade. Growth is everywhere.)
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Breaking Cages is part memoir, part self-help—a raw account of a journey to the unknown spanning three continents, followed by powerful insights that challenge the way we see ourselves and our reality. But this isn’t just a story to read—it’s an experience.
Through playful, unconventional exercises, you’ll step into your own exploration, unlocking hidden mental patterns and reshaping the way you move through life.
