About Me
I was always deeply curious about the human experience and human potential.
Throughout my life, my values continued to be freedom, love, and growth. With each person I met I saw how love and connection are at the core of what we all seek. We all desire joy, peace, and a sense of fulfillment.
My own healing journey began through both curiosity and necessity.
I was born and raised in Croatia and experienced war very early in childhood. Over time, I uncovered how those experiences, along with my family environment, shaped the way I moved through the world — my relationship to myself, others, my body, and life in general.
For many years, I didn’t realize I was living with the effects of chronic post traumatic stress and nervous system dysregulation. As a result, I often believed I was “too anxious,” “too emotional,” “too sensitive,” or “too much.”
The truth was - I was a deeply intuitive and attuned child growing up in an environment shaped by stress, war, and generational heaviness.
Feeling deeply was always part of who I was. It wasn’t a problem, it was a compass and a gift.
I felt people’s emotions and sensed energy before words.
Despite the challenges and pain I carried, there was always a part of me that wanted to grow, heal, and create a meaningful, beautiful life. And help others on their journeys too.
My Journey into Somatic & Holistic Health
As I began learning about trauma, health, movement, psychology, and human behavior, I started to understand how deeply interconnected our parts truly are.
Healing became less about “fixing” who I was, and more about returning to my true self, and to safety and connection.
Movement was another part of who I was.
From team sports to martial arts and functional training, I loved it all. I’d always say: “We’re humans, we’re meant to move”.
Slowly I saw more proof of why movement is essential to all parts of our health, and our overall life.
Looking back, I realized I had been coaching myself through all four bodies — mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual — long before I fully understood what coaching truly was.
Food and Nutrition
Growing up in Croatia, food had all sorts of meaning. It was culture, history, tradition, family, connection and community. I grew up around real food — basically, everything was farm-to-table. We valued our food and where it came from. Everything was full of flavor.
It wasn't until I spent time in the U.S. and later moved to Canada that I began to truly see and appreciate how much value proper food and nutrition has.
I decided to get trained in nutrition so I could combine the passion I had for food with the knowledge I already had about it.
For me, food and nutrition are essential to our quality of life. They're part of enjoying life and our bodies fully.
My Approach in Coaching
I’ve worked with children, teens, and adults in a wide range of settings - from international camps and schools to mentoring programs, fitness and private coaching.
I truly believe health and healing is not about becoming someone else or being rigid or restrictive in our choices.
It is about living fully and authentically, in a body that can support us in who we are and all we do.
The Unique Acorn represents every person’s unique life.
We all start as acorns — small, yet quietly holding the blueprint for something vast and rooted. Within each of us lives the potential to grow into a mighty oak tree.
And even if we don’t become the mighty oak tree, we all have that potential in us. Potential that’s unique to us. Our skills and talents, our life story, our goals and gifts.
When you look at an acorn, you can’t imagine that it could ever be the oak tree. It’s the same when we look at human babies. We come into this human experience cracked open, exposed, vulnerable. Dependent on care, love and safety. We can’t survive without human care- both emotional and physical.
Our roots — our early attachments and family systems — become our foundation. And just like the acorn, the deeper and more nourished our roots, the stronger we grow, even through challenge. If we get hurt during our rooting, it can reflect in how we hold ourselves.
Weather tests the acorn. Challenges and trauma test the human.
No two oaks are the same. And no two humans heal, thrive, or bloom the same way.
That’s why The Unique Acorn exists — to honor your path, your story, and your becoming.
Your journey is sacred.
You deserve to be met where you are and supported in achieving your desires.