Twelve years ago, I woke up one morning with a feeling I couldn’t ignore. Something unseen, call it intuition, call it a knowing, told me I had to live in Ireland. And as movie-theme as it sounds.. I trusted it.

Of course, my logical mind came in straight away, asking how that would even work. I didn’t fully speak the language, I didn’t know a single person there, and I had no clear path or career waiting for me. But this story didn’t really begin at that moment.

It actually started years before, when I was 12 years old and went on a language exchange to Ireland. For the first time in my life, I felt at home. I didn’t know why or how, but I had this deep feeling that one day I would come back.

If you believe in past lives, it makes total sense why we sometimes feel connected to places without having been there before. But even without belief, we all experience those quiet inner knowings and we don’t always listen to them.

We get distracted, we follow expectations, and we often live more from the outside world than from within ourselves.

I set that feeling aside for years, until that day came back to me. At that point, I didn’t even really understand what intuition was. I wasn’t connected to spirituality or aware of my own abilities in the way I am now. But instead of questioning the why or the how, I trusted the feeling.

It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and Ireland is now a place I love and I truly call home.

That experience shaped something very important in me. I’ve seen, both in my own life and through the work I do now, how powerful intuition is when it comes to making decisions that are truly aligned with who we are.

Of course, there has to be some level of logic in our choices, but deep down, your soul knows. It knows what is right for you and what isn’t.

Since childhood, I struggled in many areas of my life. I often hid my emotions and pretended I was okay, believing that vulnerability was a weakness. At the same time, there has always been a very sensitive part of me, a part that feels and connects to everything deeply, and for a long time I didn’t know how to hold that.

Luckily for me, my mum introduced me to the world of spiritual therapies when I was 13 years old. She brought me to a healer who, to this day, is still part of my life and continues to support me in my own healing journey. That experience opened a door for me very early on, even if I didn’t fully understand it at the time.

Over the years, I’ve come to realise that we are all constantly learning and healing. This is not something we “arrive” at, but something we move through with time, awareness, and consciousness.