HOW IT STARTED: MY STORY.
You can only hide for so long.
Through most of my teenage years and even up until my mid 20’s, my mind and body were on what I would describe as a rollercoaster ride with no downtime.
I was up and down in how I saw myself, my life, others, and my surroundings. I wasn’t sure where I belonged, what to do or who I was. I moved cities, changed schools, changed jobs and career paths countless times, all in the hopes that a fresh start was going to change everything.
But regardless of all the changes I made, after a while, I ended up right back where I started. Just as lost and insecure.
Fighting what felt like a losing battle with crippling anxiety. Struggling just to make it through the day without completely tearing myself down with my negative self-talk and destructive thoughts.
My own view of myself was toxic in so many ways and I was completely disconnected from myself. I thought that if I could just change my external reality, my internal reality would change too. But the more I kept thinking my way to a solution, the more frustrated, overwhelmed and stressed I became. I desperately wanted change but at the same time was terrified of what that would mean. So I stayed in this state for years, walking around in circles, completely disconnected from myself, unable to process my emotions, until I became emotionally and mentally ruined.
Eventually, the pieces started to fall and my whole life as I had known it crashed down on me.
I had this horrible feeling that I wasn’t living the life I wanted to live nor came here to live.
The emotions that followed were emotions I had never felt before and they were piercing deep through my bones. It came as a complete shock to me that all the years spent in fear, worry, anxiety, overwhelm and stress —me trying to avoid me — had now made me clinically depressed. I could barely hold it together anymore.
After many sleepless nights and coma filled days I realised there was no other choice. It was now up to me to save myself. No one was going to make my new reality go away, no one was going to come and make my life the way I really wanted it to be and nothing was going to get any better unless I changed my life myself. That was a painful realisation to acknowledge and accept.
Looking back I can see every part of my life was unfolding and pointing me towards my own path. And as I began to pick up on it, all parts of it, and face myself in a way I had never done before, one step at a time, I managed to get myself up and out of that place and find what I had really been looking for all the years: myself. My own power, my strengths, my desires, my commitment to myself.
The spark of light was finally lit and I started to put everything I had into building the version of me, the life I only dreamed was possible.
Who I am now.
I am now a certified Yoga teacher, Mindfulness and Meditation teacher, NLP and EFT practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Breathwork facilitator, Mindset and Empowerment Coach, and Life and Success Coach. But most of all, I am someone who can confirm that it is possible to push through and out of heartbreak, crippling sadness and grief, anxiety, fear, and doubt.
Someone who can confirm that there is another way, an easier way and that everyone who is willing and committed can grow beyond their own perceived limitations and create a life that feels good, a life anchored in emotional integrity, presence, confidence, and empowerment.
Writing about my past feels like a lifetime ago. And in some ways it is. I am finally comfortable in my own skin, confident, grounded, doing things in alignment with my values, and free from having to pretend and play a role that’s not me. I have built a beautiful relationship with myself, healed and opened my heart, released my depression and my anxiety is no longer controlling my life. I have created my own solid foundation of safety, trust, and self-love by uncovering and re-connecting to the stories of my body, rewired my subconscious beliefs and limiting stories, released habitual patterns of people-pleasing, self-judgment, and unworthiness, and learned that my experiences were given to me for a reason and that I am the creator of my own life.
I am now someone who is deeply passionate about supporting others as they remember and re-connect to their own inner power, healer, and guide, and use my own personal experience as the foundation for all of my work. I bring a mind-body connection focus, person-first, non-shaming, and judging lens to this work and have become uniquely skilled in helping others move through and with heartbreak, sadness, anxiety, fear, and shame while uncovering and reconnecting to the stories of their own body.
Now, don’t let this lead you to think my life is now pain-free. Healing isn’t linear, you will never be immune to pain. But if you want to relieve that heaviness and sadness, if you want to untangle yourself from the old patterns of fear, and the invisible wounds there are no words for that live silently in the shadows holding you back, if you want to feel a deeper connection to yourSelf, your heart, and your body, develop your intuition, grow more confident and regain a sense of worthiness, if you want to feel any bit better than you do now, turning inward and taking an honest look at what you are avoiding and hiding from, and deciding to do something different, is the only path to true happiness.
My Training
2019 200H Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training
with Sacred Paths Yoga School.
2020 130H International Board Certified Clinical Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), T.I.M.E Techniques, Clinical Hypnotherapy, and Life & Success Coaching
with Transcend Academy.
2020 Trained Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher
with School of Positive Transformation.
2021 Healer training / Breathwork Facilitator
with David Elliot.
2022 Sound Healing Level 1
with Sound Healing Academy.
2023 49H Yin Yoga Teacher Training
with HiYoga.
2023 60H Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
with The Embody Lab.
CLIENT LOVE
“Working with Ingunn has been an absolute life changing experience. She has this very unique way of really calling you out but in the safest healthiest way. She is highly intuitive and it is an absolute joy to be guided by her.”
—Suman
“Ingunn is such an amazing coach! She asked me very thought-provoking questions and brought them to my attention when I was using disempowering words/assumptions about myself. She provided space for me to heal lower vibrating emotions like fear + scarcity that have allowed me to step into a more empowered state, effortlessly. I’d recommend her to anyone!!”
—Katie T.
“Before working with Ingunn, I was feeling unsatisfied because I couldn’t be open to those who were near me, I did not feel confident in understanding why I had the thoughts/feelings I had. I had trouble addressing those emotions with others because I didn’t really understand them myself. I was in the search for someone that could help me gain better knowledge of my feelings and express them in a positive way that was good for my mental health. I wanted these things so I could be honest, understand, and be curious with others thoughts. Now, after working together with Ingunn I feel fulfilled in my own thoughts, like I finally have a solid foundation to work with. I now know how to process my own thoughts/emotions in a healthy organic way and I couldn’t be more grateful for that.”
—Hannah
“Ingunn has such a beautiful soul. She has been there to listen to me and offer me guidance. She is very passionate about what she does and she loves helping me see what is truly best for ME. She has helped me tune into my body and I have learned to ask myself “What do I need in this moment?”. She reminds me that I have all the answers within myself. And knowing that, it has helped me show up more as myself and not what I think others want me to show up as. If you have the chance to work with her, do it!”
—Kate