About me
Everything I do grows from a single intention: to help people find genuine happiness — in their work, their relationships, and their lives. That may sound simple, but in my experience it is one of the most courageous and demanding things a person can pursue. It is what drew me to this work, and it is what keeps me in it.
My background spans Sports Science at the German Sport University Cologne, a qualification as a certified Mindfulness-Based Systemic Coach, and training as a certified Unified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Mindsize Mental Trainer. These are not separate threads — they are different expressions of the same deep curiosity about human potential, attention, and what becomes possible when we learn to work with our own minds more skillfully.
My path to mindfulness wasn't a straight one. At 27, after my first silent retreat, I fell deeply in love with meditation — and committed to it with everything I had. But life had other plans. At 33, I found myself in the grip of a deep depression that lasted three years — one of the most humbling and exhausting periods of my life. The practice I had built over years actually became one of the very anchors that helped me find my way back. Not as a cure, but as a daily return to the present moment, to stillness, to myself. That struggle is at the heart of everything I do today. I know what it feels like when the mind works against you — and I know, from the inside, that change is possible.
I have maintained a consistent personal meditation practice for almost a decade, deepened each year through silent retreats. A long-standing engagement with Buddhism and Stoicism as well as my own crisis quietly shaped the way I think about suffering, resilience, impermanence, and what it means to live well — not as abstract philosophy, but as lived orientation. These traditions ask hard questions and offer honest answers, and I find them as relevant today as ever.
Outside of my work, you will find me on trails. Trailrunning is where much of this comes together for me — the physical demand, the presence it requires, the humility it teaches. Like meditation, it is a practice of showing up, staying with difficulty, and discovering what you are made of. I believe that pursuing your own edges — in running, in sitting, in life — is one of the most honest forms of personal development there is.
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
— Buddha