About my journey
This is me, Celia.
My life has been a bumpy road full of turnarounds, back-and-forths, and tries and errors. On paper, I am a Spanish linguist, life coach, mediator, trauma prevention trainer, and reiki practitioner. But I am much more than that. I am a trauma survivor, a curious mind, a creative, an immigrant, an idealist, and a woman. Even though I had all the tickets to end in a very bad place, resilience and faith in myself got me through everything and more.
Now, I help others shift their realities. From fear to expansion. From survival to harmony. I teach people to re-humanize their relationships by nourishing connections and self-empowerment with a very specific approach: language analysis and empathetic listening.
I have worked in the areas of social affairs, education, communication and self-development, especially in cross-cultural contexts. My strengths? Communication, space facilitation, and relationship building.
I am a good example of what tenacity, self-love, compassion and curiosity can do. If I was able to turn my life around, you can do it, too.
Welcome to my page - this is my story.
It all started back in 1989…
I was born in the middle of the country to a very conservative family of lawyers.
My mother and father studied together. Soon after they met, they fell in love and got married. A year later, I arrived.
Traditional values played a big role in my upbringing: I went to the same catholic school my mother and aunts attended until I was fifteen. Rules were very present. At home, my parents were absorbed by their job responsibilities and their emotional limitations due to their unprocessed traumas. There was little to no room for discussions or vulnerable communication. I never felt seen.
When I was eleven, my parents got divorced.
The experiences at school and the struggles that followed at home had a huge impact on the idea I had of myself. I was unconsciously being trained to be silent, give up space, and please others to feel validated. With no safe emotional space provided, I learned to forget myself.
At eighteen, encouraged by my family to study languages, I moved to the south of Spain to study translation and interpretation.
During those years, my studies were never a priority. I wanted to explore the world and other cultures. I wanted to be surrounded by laughter. My heart always shared an apartment with international students. I loved learning languages, cultures, and different life philosophies.
One year, I built a strong genuine connection. It was so strong and it felt so real, that I didn’t want to lose it. So I followed it to Germany.
Already abroad and finishing my studies, I met someone. I fell so deeply for this person, that I decided to make Germany my permanent home.
I stayed for what I believed it was a love story. The love and the home I had been waiting for my whole life.
But the love story I was craving so desperately ended before it even started. In 2013, I hit rock bottom. I had never been so sad in my life. I had no direction, no purpose, no reason to stay or to leave. I became a ghost.
At the time. I was working cleaning rooms in a hotel and babysitting once a week to make a living. I was broke, depressed, and isolated.
So, a year later, I left the town of Marburg looking for a new life in Munich.
My life patterns were still the same. I was moving wounded and unconscious through life, engaging and leaving relationships and jobs. I was looking for connections but was afraid of people. I wanted to arrive somewhere, but all I did was leave. Deeply, I wanted was for someone to save me.
Three years had gone by and I was still stuck in a cycle of over-thinking, social anxiety, and depression. I had to look for help, so I began seeing a therapist.
During that process, I learned that I had been living in survival mode all this time. THAT PERSON was not me, but the reflection of what a sick society made me believe that I was. In time, I saw big changes, gained clarity, and got curious.
Not long after, I quit my job and signed up for a mediation course. Fascinated by the discoveries in communication and psychology, I booked a second course. This time, focus on coaching.
Life started to shift. I started to believe in myself because I got to see and meet my true self - the one that never got the space to exist.
Through the lens of compassion, a new path was taking shape…
My experiences in kindergarten, in sales, at university, in management, in coaching, and teaching showed me how toxic how communication model truly is - we haven’t learned how to build relationships. Nor to be vulnerable. Nor to be human. We are the reflection of a dehumanized social belief system.
I decided to turn it around. I wanted to encounter people with freedom, acceptance and empowerment. I wanted to provide them with what many of us missed when we were children: a space to express ourselves, a space to feel understood.
I, then, focused on working with people for people. If we want to change the system, we have to change the way we perceive ourselves and our place in the world.
And, so,… the little girl who never trusted her ability to engage with people became a strong advocate for communication and self-expression.
I became what the child in me needed so badly: an empathetic listener, a fighter, a believer. Now, I want to be that for every single person who needs it. I want to be a walking inspiration for others.
The many different challenges I found on my path allowed me to get to know myself in a way that I could have never experienced otherwise.
I never knew where I was going, nor what was the destination, but there was only one thing clear to me: self-sabotage was not an option anymore.
I quit jobs that weren’t aligned with my values, I stopped entertaining people who kept feeding the wound of low self-esteem. I have started from zero more times than I can count… because a place of pain is never the place to stay.
What I take from this journey is not little…
I have grown a deep love, respect, and understanding for myself.
I have learned to see my value and to respect my boundaries.
I have unfolded my talents and my strengths.
I have found my purpose.
I have given space to all parts of myself. I have created integration within myself.
You can achieve transformative changes, too. All you need is to understand that is YOU who is setting the limit.
If this is you, I guarantee you that you can get a deeper understanding of your current situation in less than 20 minutes. I am here now, but I was there, exactly where you are now. I invite you to get in touch with me.