My story.
When I was 7 years old, my father enrolled me in a gymnastics club in our town, in Romania, and that was the moment I fell in love with exercise, its beauty, relentless practice and gradual accomplishments. In my gymnastics journey I discovered self-control, attention, patience, confidence and the capacity to self-transform.
I practiced gymnastics until I graduated with an LLB from the University of Bucharest at the age of 23. By that time, I was also practicing mountaineering and speleology, getting into the exploration of nature. When I began working in the legal profession and starting a family, the forms of exercise changed to jogging and aerobics. Exercise was there to stay as a natural and essential part of my being.
Years later, when I moved to South Africa, I qualified as a personal trainer and my exercise passion became my new profession. Thus, corporate fitness and employees’ well-being were my space and focus of work for 20 years. Along the way, I studied and graduated with a BA Psychology Honours from the University of Witwatersrand.
Personally and with groups of employees I trained and competed in race-walking at National Championship level, road running up to ultra-marathons and especially mountain running in various nature reserves for many years. I offered skill, encouragement and inspiration and in return I got inspired by people’s curiosity, commitment and enthusiasm to work on the edge of their possibilities.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s life-shifting impact, my personal journey of adjustment and transformation continued by engaging in studying further the intricacies and the link between our thinking, emotions and behaviour within our social context. As a result, I joined the coaching profession through a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching at the South African College of Applied Psychology and opened the Highest Peak Coaching platform.
We all write our stories.
What is your story? Your real story?
What better future do you see for yourself?
Is your body fit for your thinking?
How badly do you want what you say you want?