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 stress and nervous system dysregulation. As a result, I often believed I was “too anxious,” “too emotional,” “too sensitive,” or “too much.”
Feeling deeply was always part of who I was.
But because my true self wasn’t supported, I often felt different and misunderstood as a child. In reality, I was a deeply intuitive and attuned child growing up in an environment shaped by stress, war, and generational heaviness.
My sensitivity wasn’t the problem — it was a compass and a gift.
I felt people’s emotions, sensed energy before words, and longed for deeper safety, truth, and connection. 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.
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 authenticity, safety, and connection.
Movement became a huge part of that process.
I have always loved sports, movement and physical activity. From team sports to martial arts, and functional training, I loved it all and kept learning about the human body. Over time, I realized movement was also helping my body process stress, anxiety, and survival patterns I had carried for years.
As humans, we are meant to move. Movement helps us connect with ourselves, express what words cannot, release tension, and feel alive.
We are meant to feel at home inside our bodies.
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.
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.
My work is informed by over 10 years of personal practice, study and lived experience in movement, nutrition, nervous system regulation, emotional wellness and holistic health.
My approach combines psychology, nervous system awareness, movement, nutrition, emotional healing, and holistic lifestyle support.
My goal is to create a safe and supportive space where people can reconnect with themselves, understand their patterns with compassion, and have a healthier, authentic relationship with themselves, their body and their life.
Because healing is not about becoming someone else.
It is about returning to yourself.
Yours in love and health,
Romana Aelux
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 us, 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’s noticed 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 see what you’re becoming, even when you don’t yet see it yourself.