About Maria

A life shaped by becoming.

I know what it’s like when the life you built no longer fits — and the next version of you is asking to be met with more trust.

Portrait of Maria Chirikina

My story

By 38, I’ve already lived and shed many versions of myself.

I’ve had a wealthy life, and a life of deep debt. I’ve changed careers, crossed countries — with kids and without — and started from scratch more than once. I’ve been jobless with a baby, and found my way back into corporate life after my second. I was depleted by my job, and I turned it around, so I can still enjoy my corporate life while building a business of my own.

In every one of those chapters, I’ve had to let go of the parts of me that no longer served, figure out who I wanted to become, and make the choices that would carry me there.

Looking back at this journey, and at the weight of the choices I made along the way, I wish there had been someone to support me through the transitions. So that my nervous system didn’t have to freak out, and my body didn’t collapse, and I didn’t overwork myself for nothing. So that I could lead the way to my destination in flow, and with clarity, confidence, and full trust in myself.

The work I do now was born out of exactly this journey: out of the lessons I learned walking my own path, and the wisdom of the many great people I met along the way.

The work

Not the hard way, and not the easy way — but your way.

I mentor capable, intelligent, and aspiring women to step into the next version of themselves with inner clarity and the capacity to hold steady under the pressure of their own growth — physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically.

How I work

In every transition there comes a moment when the old version of your life stops working, and the new one hasn’t arrived yet. In that in-between, you start to doubt yourself, pressure yourself, and sabotage yourself. The way through is to keep making the choices that belong to the next version of you, not the one you’re letting go of.

I blend somatic and nervous system work with psychology, energetics, and systems like Human Design and Gene Keys to meet you with whatever serves you, and show you clearly who you already are and what’s been standing between you and the life you actually want.

So whatever you’re about to step into — a new relationship, a new role, a new country, or motherhood — ask yourself what kind of choices this next version of you would make for herself, every day. And start making them now.

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