ABOUT
Hi, I'm Magdalena.
Listen to me, ladies! You have too much to offer the world for your gifts and voices to be on mute! It is my passion to help YOU regain YOUR unique voice, power, and freedom.
Why do I care so much about this? Because I KNOW how frustrating it is when you strive to live your life to the fullest, pouring yourself into your family, job or faith — but you still feel empty inside. All the success I’ve had in the academic or professional spheres were not able to enhance my super low self-esteem. Learning how to TRULY love myself has turned the tables for me. I now carry a freedom inside myself that I just have to pass on to others!
Through my speaking and coaching women break free from the pressure to please, perform, and perfect. They start to live in authentic relationships with themselves, with the people around them, and if they want to, with God. And trust me on this — REAL relationships are so freeing!
Now, I’d like to share some parts of my story with you. This may help you to better understand where I come from and where I’m going with this site, my coaching and my speaking.
I was strong but felt stuck
I was always considered to be a strong, successful woman — and I was! I thrived in academia, taught at master’s level, had a super safe job and strong faith in God. But inside I felt insecure 95 % of the time. I constantly questioned myself! I worried about what others thought of me. I replayed what I had said in conversations days, months, even years later.
With all my seeming flaws, I thought it was impossible to ever get a positive self-image. After years of being stuck in negative self-talk and constant fear of not being enough, I felt like I was completely and utterly at life's mercy. When I finally found the key to break free, it revolutionized my life in every aspect!
Today, I know that self-confidence is THE foundation for TRUE freedom, strength, and success. To be exact, it is impossible to find lasting peace inside oneself without experiencing deep and sincere self-love.
The lack of self-love in the church
I had a life-changing God encounter in 2005. This resulted in an intentional walk with Christ ever since.
It's mind-boggling to me that in all these years I haven't heard a single sermon merely on the importance of self-love. However, I have been taught scores of times how I should lay down my life for God and others. But that’s IMPOSSIBLE without a healthy self-love — which, in fact, is the OPPOSITE of egotism anyway! Consequently, my faith walk was always accompanied by the pressure to BE & BEHAVE a certain way in order to please God, or more precisely, others in the church.
Today, I coach women inside and outside the church. Yet, regardless of people's faith, I am convinced that God's heart for us is to sincerely and deeply love ourselves. In fact, self-love was THE missing link in my life to finally find freedom and happiness — even in God.
Marriage was not the cure
My husband has seen me both at my best and definitely at my worst. When I had no faith in life or myself, he still believed in me and continued to be my biggest fan.
Nevertheless, he was NOT the cure for my feelings of inadequacy! He could not heal my low self-esteem.
Today, I know that indeed nobody can do this for me. I have finally come to understand in my head AND my heart that self-confidence is never to be found in other people's approval or applause. Self-love can ONLY be cultivated inside of me. I literally hold the keys in my hand. What an empowering and freeing truth!