My Story

My journey From the Corporate World to a Life of Freedom

I spent 13 years in the financial world, thriving in a high-pressure environment, chasing results, and moving up the ladder. I spent the last few years as a manager, leading a team, meeting targets, and constantly striving for more. There were things I loved about that life—especially how it taught me to take action and make things happen.

But over time, something inside me began to question: Is this all there is?

I didn’t listen at first. Like many of us, I was conditioned to keep going, to meet expectations, and to define my life by external achievements. I was happy with what I’d learned, particularly the ability to take swift action. But there was an emptiness creeping in, something I wasn’t yet ready to acknowledge.

My relationship ended, leaving me heartbroken. He wasn’t the person I thought he was, and it hurt deeply. We had many adventurous dreams together, and i had started to open up to the possibility of living a different life than what i had created for myself.

In the breakup I started to question what I was trying to hold onto: the relationship, or the dream of freedom?

The universe has a way of making you stop when you're avoiding what needs to be faced. My body took over where my mind couldn’t. Years of back pain culminated in surgery in early 2023, and suddenly, I was forced to sit still. I was recovering, surrounded by nature, with nothing but time to just be in the nature and in my mind and body. For the first time in years, I wasn’t working, and it made me ask: Who am I when I’m not in the office?

The stillness brought clarity.

I realised I had been trying to fit into a system that wasn’t designed for me. I had always been the one to stay late at work, lost in tasks - then one you hand the shitty task because you know it will be solved with dedication and perfection. Returning to the job i now found myself, watching the clock, wondering when the day would end.

I didn’t care for the things in the job that had mattered so much for me before and i started seeing this world from the outside, where some of the things that i agreed to follow from management seemed surreal. When I realised my favourite part of the day was my bike ride to and from work, I knew I was no longer where I belonged.

Transformation often begins when we’re ready to let go of what no longer serves us.

I decided to honour my body’s healing and take a six-month leave from work to walk the Camino de Santiago. I hoped the pilgrimage would bring answers to why I suddenly felt so different — and answers to the big questions about life, purpose, and who am I.

But instead of answers, I found more questions.

Walking the Camino didn’t show me who I was; it showed me who I wasn’t. It was like shedding old skin, deep inside myself, knowing that my days in the corporate world were behind me, even if I didn’t yet know what lay ahead.

After the Camino, I traveled to Asia - Something about being far from everything familiar made space for self-discovery.

It was there, alone with myself, that I began peeling back the layers.

I did a Silent retreat, a Vipassana meditation retreat, spent 12 days with complete fasting and detoxing my body, trained as a yoga teacher, and dived into spiritual practices.

I was seeking—not in the way I once chased success—but with curiosity of questions bigger than I had dared to ask myself and the universe before.

In quiet moments, I found myself.

Or as I know would say, I remembered myself.

The hardest part was accepting that this was me—the real me.

Stepping into that truth was terrifying because it meant breaking free from everything I had built my life around. Security. Safety. Success.

I still had my job waiting for me, and my apartment in Copenhagen, but something in me knew those things no longer held meaning.

Transformation isn't only about changing your external circumstances; it's about accepting that your internal world is shifting.

About four weeks before I was meant to return to work, I hadn’t booked my flight back - this would be a clear sign itself.. My boss called, and I felt the pull of my old self—the one who always knew what to say, how to fit in. But when I hung up, it was clear: I couldn’t go back.

I sat with it for a week, allowing myself to feel the fear and uncertainty. Then, I made the call. I quit my job. It was a full moon day, and I was sitting in a hammock, overlooking the ocean, sipping a coconut. In that moment, I felt more aligned with myself than I had in years. It wasn’t a sudden revelation; it was a quiet knowing. The kind of knowing that comes when you finally stop running from yourself.

I sat there smiling and laughing to myself, once again feeling the lightweight that comes with being true to yourself and taking the actions required.

I went back to Denmark in November to sell my apartment and close some chapters needed. I had to return to make sure I wasn’t running away from anything in that life.

I had everything society tells us we should want: a great carrier, good salary, a beautiful apartment, good friends, and family. But it wasn’t my life anymore.

To be honest; there’s a huge grief that comes with letting go of a life that you feel like you somehow should be grateful for in many ways, and there was a lot of grief and worries about letting my nearest one know it. Thinking back I maybe could have been more honest about my true feelings and thoughts, but i didn’t wish to make anyone sad nor have them try to make me think and feel differently.

I travelled back to Thailand in January, fully free. With that freedom came the challenge of taking it in. The first few months were about adapting—not just to the external world, but to my internal world. I let myself feel everything: the doubts, the joy, the fear, and the excitement. Sometimes i cried for hours - both happy and grateful tears and tears of feeling lost, because i didn’t know what to do with all this freedom - i hadn’t experienced it before.

I got back to breathwork, meditation, and energy work. I studied, I practiced, and I learned the art of just being

In December, I had started my certification as a coach at Mindjuice University. Coaching felt like a natural extension of what I had always done: holding space for others, connecting, listening and helping them transform and grow. I realised that my natural gifts had always been making people feel seen for who they truly are without any judgements - beyond titles, achievements, or masks

During my time in Thailand, I learned about the handpan, an instrument whose sound immediately resonated with me. From the first time I played it, I knew it was going to be part of me in some way. The music felt like it unlocked something deep inside me, and I would lose myself for hours in the peaceful tones. It was a meditation, a reconnection to myself.

I knew I had to have one myself, but I was waiting for the right one. I found a handpan that sounded perfect, but it was on a waiting list, and I wasn’t sure if I could get it to Asia, and if i was smart while travelling around backpacking style.

In the meantime, I returned to Koh Phangan and borrowed the same handpan I had played the year before. And then, out of nowhere, the handpan I had been waiting for became available. It was perfect timing. Without hesitation, I bought it, and two hours later, it was sold out again. The alignment felt like a gift from the universe.

This brings me to where I am now: a space of creation, combining coaching, meditation, and healing sounds - all of my passions! This chapter of my life feels like a combination of everything I’ve discovered about myself.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that transformation isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you are - and having the courage to live that truth!

Even when it means letting go of everything that doesn’t serve you anymore - that is bravery and that is authentic.

In a world where status, performance and systems have the key role, it’s easy to ask ourselves "What do I need to achieve?" but instead, try asking "Who am I, really?"

When we let go of the need to fit into boxes, when we surrender to the flow of life, we find that everything we’ve been seeking has been within us all along, we just have to remember who we are.

What comes next?

I don’t know. I’ve met an incredible man in Bali—who has added another layer of beauty and growth to my journey. This story goes alongside to the one you just read, but that’s a story for another blog - one that holds its own lessons of love, connection, timing and feeling even more freedom in being together.