For those at the crossroads
Coaching | Reformer | Reinvention
Born in post-Soviet Ukraine, I learned early that silence feels safer than truth.
I grew up in a family where survival often meant non-disclosure of emotions, and sometimes even of reality itself.
I come from generations shaped by concentration camps, orphanhood, alcohol abuse, physical abuse, and an almost total absence of emotional expression.
Many members of my family were affected by forced displacement, though much of that history remains unknown to me. Those who survived did so by becoming silent.
Feel less. Speak less. Need less.
My childhood carried both big and small trauma. For years, my greatest dream was simple: to move abroad and make sure my children would have nothing to do with my past.
I didn’t yet know that the past knows no borders.
Life moved me across six countries, through relationships, divorces, motherhood, loss, abortion, reinvention, and an ADHD diagnosis somewhere in between.
For a long time, burning bridges and building from ashes became a familiar rhythm.
The deeper challenge was learning how to build without the burning.
At another crossroads, my body joined the conversation.
After years of martial arts and dance, I woke up one morning unable to walk. My knee no longer listened.
What followed was almost a decade of doctors, scans, opinions, suggested surgeries with no guaranteed outcome, warnings not to run, and strange treatments that often cost more than they healed.
Eventually, the work became less about fixing one joint and more about learning how to hear my body — and offer it movement that nourished instead of destroyed.
Spoiler: I have never run more than I do now, in my mid-thirties.
Can we embrace change without needing an internal revolution every single time?
Can reinvention be less about collapse and more about conscious becoming?
The Komorebi Atelier was born from that question
for people whose old operating system no longer fits the life they envision
For neurodivergent people tired of fitting in and masking.
For solo parents starting over, learning to carry the weight they never trained for.
For people at crossroads of separation, diagnosis, parenthood, burnout, relocation, grief, or the sudden realization that the life they built no longer fits.
And for those who want to rebuild their relationship with the body through movement that is intelligent, strong, and kind.
Some people arrive through conversation.
Some arrive through movement.
Both are ways of listening to your truest self.
Choose your door
For neurodivergence, ADHD, AuDHD, co-parenting, and any other crossroads you find yourself at.
I work with people navigating reinvention through identity shifts, neurodivergence, separation, co-parenting, and rebuilding trust with the body and self.
My role is not to tell you who to become.
It is to walk beside you while you listen more honestly to yourself, your life, and your body — and find your own way through change.
My training includes Coaching Essentials with Coach Approach Training Institute, alongside Polestar Pilates and Balanced Body Reformer Pilates instructor education.
I’ve loved the Japanese word komorebi for years.
It came to me in hypnosis, in meditation, and on walks through both forests and cities — this image of light finding its way.
Komorebi means sunlight filtering through the leaves.
Perhaps because I grew up around forests. Perhaps because I’ve learned to look for light in difficult places.
The Komorebi Atelier became the name of this space because it reminds me that even in dense forests, light still finds a way through.