FOR EU EXPAT PROFESSIONALS (38-50) WHO'VE LOST THEIR FIRE
You've Built a Life Most Would Admire. So Why Does It Feel Like You've Lost Yourself in the Process?
You've worked hard, achieved plenty, and built
a life abroad that looks successful from the outside. But inside? The fire is fading.
The GENIE Spiral™ helps high-level expats realign career, energy, and purpose –
so achievement feels light, not heavy.
This isn't about fixing you.
It's about finally feeling at home in your own life.
Because alignment is the new measure of success.
It Creeps Up Slowly. Then One Day, You Don't Recognize Yourself.
The Identity Trap:
Your job, your role, your expat status – they've become who you are. When they don't fit, you don't fit. This identity fusion is the hidden root of exhaustion, not just 'burnout.'
The Balance Mirage: Endless
working hours, unseen
pressures, and a
blurred line between your professional and
personal life.
The Inner Disconnect: Feeling isolated, despite living
in bustling cities, questioning
if your job aligns with
your deeper values and
true potential.
The Career Trap: Unclear
paths forward, a mismatch
between your ambitions and
actual fulfillment, and the looming sense that your life is running
on autopilot.
It Creeps Up Slowly. Then One Day, You Don't Recognize Yourself.
The Identity Trap:
Your job, your role, your expat status – they've become who you are. When they don't fit, you don't fit. This identity fusion is the hidden root of exhaustion, not just 'burnout.'
The Balance Mirage: Endless working hours, unseen pressures, and a blurred line between your professional and personal life.
The Inner Disconnect: Feeling isolated, despite living in bustling cities, questioning if your job aligns with your deeper values and true potential.
The Career Trap: Unclear paths forward, a mismatch between your ambitions and actual fulfillment, and the looming sense that your life is running on autopilot.
About me
I’m a Millennial expat who has spent the past 20 years researching, experimenting, and ultimately discovering the secret code of aligned life.
Most career coaches help you climb the ladder faster.
I help you reclaim the identity you lost on the way up – so your career finally feels like yours.
I work with Gen X & Millennial EU expats (38-50) who've achieved plenty – but lost themselves in the process.
Together, we reclaim your energy, clarify your purpose, and build a life and career that feel like home."
Drawing on deep experience in holistic coaching, I weave together the Enneagram, generational traits, and IKIGAI to guide clients through transformative self-discovery. Together, we uncover the hidden toll of an ill-fitting career, realign professional paths with personal purpose, and foster fulfillment—without compromise.
As a Certified Holistic Life Coach & Mind-Body Practitioner, I ground my work in neuroplasticity, epigenetics, and leading-edge personal-growth science. My GENIE Spiral framework™ is a RE-calibration journey built on five structured phases:
RE-cognize ~ RE-linquish ~ RE-tune ~ RE-peat ~ RE-vitalize
Through this process, clients clear old patterns, realign with their true calling, and rewire the way they think, feel, and act. The result is a RE-MARKABLE life - a career and life deeply aligned with who you are and who you are becoming, where growth, clarity, energy, and fulfillment unfold naturally and powerfully.
The Reality of Midlife Gen X & Y Expats: Identity Strain Behind the Numbers
You’re not imagining it. Research shows that the expat experience fragments who you are – burnout, loneliness and mental-health symptoms
are often signs of deeper identity misalignment, not personal weakness.
Felt lonely, or social isolation
70%
of expatriates contributing to distress. Research shows many expatriates struggle with feelings of emptiness, meaninglessness or being unvalued - signs your identity has become disconnected from your true self. One study found that loneliness and poor adjustment significantly raised psychological distress among professionals living abroad.
Source: Ersoy – Loneliness & distress among expats 2020
Burnout Epidemic
98%
of expats report experiencing symptoms of burnout, with 90% feeling stressed and 86% feeling detached or alone – because your sense of self has become fused with your role. This overwhelming sense of inability to disconnect – because your sense of self has become fused with your role. When work is 'who you are,' you can't just switch it off.
Source: Cigna Healthcare - Burned Out Overseas - The State of Expat Life 2022
Mental Health Struggles
~80%
of expat employees are grappling with negative mental health symptoms directly linked to their work environment. Notably, 49% have experienced burnout, and over a third are self-managing their conditions, often ineffectively. This highlights a significant gap in support – because burnout is a symptom, not the root cause. Identity misalignment is.
Source: AXA – Global Healthcare “A Global State of Mind” / Mind Health Report (2024)Axa
These aren't just numbers. They're your colleagues. Your friends. Maybe even you.
But here's what most people miss: burnout isn't the problem. It's the alarm bell. The real issue?
Identity Strain – when who you've become no longer matches who you truly are.
The secret signs of misalignment in life
What if the nagging restlessness you’ve been calling stress is actually a secret sign?
A coded message from your deeper self, pointing out that your life has drifted off course.
Could the Sunday dread, or even the random bursts of ambition be more than just “normal” noise?
Maybe they’re the breadcrumbs leading you back to alignment.
Here's what your restlessness is really saying: your identity has been hijacked by your role.
You've become what you do – instead of who you are.
And your deeper self is fighting to break free.
Curious what your life might be trying to tell you?
Reset Your Routine
Tired of waking up exhausted? We'll decode the patterns that have been running you - and rewrite them. Simple, powerful habits that recharge your energy instead of draining it.
Clarify Your Vision
Sick of chasing goals that don't feel like yours? Your soul's blueprint knows the way. We'll bring it into focus - so you feel driven by purpose, not pushed by pressure."
Build Lasting Balance
Done with the treadmill? Together, we'll design a life and career that feels like home - not a never-ending grind. Alignment that lasts.
The GENIE Golden Triangle™: Expat Realignment Where Inner Clarity Meets Outer Strategy
Here's the problem no one talks about: your identity has been split in two.
Your inner self (values, purpose, energy) is pulling one way.
Your outer life (career, finances, role) is pulling another.
That split – what research calls Identity Strain – is why burnout keeps coming back, no matter how many 'fixes' you try.
Most coaching focuses on mindset OR strategy. GENIE integrates both - through three interconnected pillars:
How do we get there? Through the GENIE Spiral™ – a proven 5-step process that rewires your inner compass and redesigns your outer life."
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Hear From My Clients
So the lightness is unspeakable…Gratitude is boundless and cannot be valued by any wealth.… The path taken together brought priceless experience and ignited hope… opened the soul and showed the way… The way to a new life, a life that I can create myself with the help of the Universe
Sandra W.
Health Coach
I returned to my inner axis in the fastest and the most effective way. I’ve got strong and indisputable realizations about my own responsibility and reached a state of inner peace and raised my self-esteem. Now I know my life’s mission and have the purpose of life..
Mark H.
Leadership Coach
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Your Identity Is Waiting. Your Career Doesn't Have to Hold It Hostage.
Every day you stay misaligned, the gap between who you are and who you've become grows wider. Let's close it – together.