Since I was a child, I remember being a hypersensitive person. Remembering some parts of my childhood now, I am fascinated by how empathetic I’ve been all my life. I struggled internally like many empaths to deal with the high amount of sensitivity and empathy I feel on a daily basis. I also struggled to deal with outside pressures and comments such as: “you’re too sensitive” and “why do you cry so easily?” and “if you don’t do something about your sensitivity you will end up alone”. I was tormented between the internal struggle I had. Not understanding why do I feel things in a deeper way. I did not have anyone to guide me to understand myself, accept myself, and learn the tools I need to take care of myself and regulate my emotions without blocking them or numbing them. Like many teenagers I had challenges with my self-esteem and my self-worth which became deeper and more challenging as I grew to a young adult. I was 24 when I met my first coach and that was a shifting point in my life. He was calm, fair, and very wise. I spent a year working with him and what a year it was! Years passed by and I am still grateful for him and to this day I remember some wise things he told me during our sessions. I moved jobs, mostly in the corporate world focusing on marketing and events. I moved from fields of studies too. From marketing to international business to humanitarian affairs. The more time passed by, the higher I progressed in my career and higher academic degrees I achieved. Yet, something inside of me was longing for something else. I went back to coaching and met one of the most beautiful souls I could ever meet. I did a lot of deep work with her and the breakthroughs and shifts happened during the years I worked with her were fascinating. I was on an unstoppable healing journey and there was nothing I wanted more than to heal the parts of me that needs healing. I tried different forms of healing like therapeutic writing, theta healing, and yin yoga. I won’t bore you with the details of each experience but every one of them lit something inside of me. Coaching was the most empowering and satisfying experience for me. It was through coaching that I started understanding myself, seeing all sides of me, the light and the shadow, and learned how to accept and love all of them. It is through coaching that I learned to be compassionate to myself without indulging myself. It is through coaching that I worked on discovering my life purpose, my values, my goals, and the story I want to leave behind. It is through coaching with another amazing coach that I learned about saboteurs and my inner powers and how to have a positive mindset. Coaching has been the ultimate powerful tool I use whenever I feel lost, stuck, or unsure of my next move. I found it to be empowering, liberating, and untethering. With this in mind, I started my coaching journey to become a co-active coach. This was another expansion in my self-development journey. Many openings, many shifts, many realisations, many laughters, and many tears. Here I am today, offering myself and my learnings to be the person I needed when I was a child, a teenager, and a young adult. To meet you wherever you are on your self-discovery journey, to walk beside you, and support you to go wherever your untethered soul desires.

Remember, our souls know the way. They have the wisdom. They know what they’re longing for. All we need to do is to alternate between being still and listening to what it is, and being courageous by taking steps towards fulfilling what it longs for.

May we all live an untethered life,

Nour