My Health Journey - Personal Case Study
You may have read my Personal Story in the About page already, thats a brief overview of all the adventures and struggles I’ve lived through, and this is a deep dive into my personal case study, my health journey. This journey is ongoing, but I am have gone very far from the person I was, the health struggles I struggled with, I have experienced a true transformation. I learned so much along the way and I’m sure I’ll continue learning as I continue to live and embody the work I do, one step at a time. This case study will take you over the decades of my life, a preview of type of information I am looking out for from my clients when we have our Deep Dive session.
Before I was born
I come from a big family on my mothers side. My great-grandmother was born in 1902 in Latvia, during the WW1 as a young teenager she was sent away as a refuge to live near St Petersburg for a few years and when the war ended she was able to return back and study in the University - gaining a degree in teaching. She then started to work as a teacher in a small school. She met my great-granfater and had 3 children with him, before he passed away from a bowel related disease, potentially cancer at the age of…. My grandmother was the middle child and when she was 8 years old WW2 started. My grandmother with her older sister got taken from the school by solders and put on a train to Siberia, only on day 3 she finally got reunited with her mother and the yonger sister.
My grandmothers childhood was tuff and she needed to become tuff person herself. At age of 15 she got acused of being an “enemy of nation” and sentence to prison - a work camp where she remained for 2 years working in construction along side grown hard and mean men… Stalin died and political situaation in USSR changed many political prisoners got released and she was among them. She then studied and became an accountant. In her ealry 20s she decided to move back to Latvia from Omsk (USSR now Russia) where her mum and sisters lived and started to have their families. In Latvia my granmother became a single mother and had her son and then a few years later she got together with my grandfather and had my mother. When my mum was just 2 weeks old, decision was made to move back to Omsk closer to family and support system.
My mother was born with a hole in her hearth and partly blind in one eye. She had an open heart surgery at the age of 8 and survived. Doctors told her not to drink alchohol, smoke, do sports or have children - whcih she dismissed and did all as she grew up. Around age 9 she went through an incident of sexual abuse and when she shared that with her mother, she got dismissed and unfortunately did not receive the support she should have gotten. She struggled with school, particularly spelling, she was a daydreamer
Nightlife and a Search for Purpose
By my early twenties, I found myself immersed in the fast-paced world of nightclub work. At first, the late nights and high energy felt like an escape, but over time, I realised that this lifestyle was depleting me. The further I drifted from my health and creativity, the more I longed for something with true meaning.
A Cliff Dive, a Concussion, and a Will to Live
During this phase, I took part in an adventure reality TV show, where I had to leap from a towering cliff into the water below. What should have been a thrilling moment left me with a concussion and a stark moment of clarity. As I struggled underwater, something shifted - I felt an overwhelming will to live. Emerging from that experience marked the beginning of my transformation. I knew I had to make a radical change, one that would allow me to truly heal and grow.