Founder of Meraviglia & Creator of The Alignment Arc

For most of my life, I have been fascinated by how we make sense of life. Why can two people experience the same situation so differently? Why do we repeat patterns that do not serve us, even when we recognise them? Why do we feel so dependent on authority? And how do we stay true to ourselves while remaining deeply connected to others?

These questions have followed me through many stages of life: as a product manager, interior designer, entrepreneur, investor, consultant, coach, writer, wife and mother of three. And simply as someone who has never been particularly good at accepting that something must be done a certain way just because it has always been done that way.

My curiosity is not limited to the individual psyche. I keep looking for the connection between our inner world and the world we share. That also brings me to the systems that shape our lives. Why do we accept it when politicians continue to act in ways shown to be harmful? Why does poverty grow in an age of technological progress? Why do we accept a financial system in which powerful institutions have so much influence over the value of our money and who has access to it? Why is life so difficult for so many people? And why don’t we ask these questions more often?

I naturally zoom out to look at the bigger picture: our environment, relationships, systems, culture and the circumstances we are part of.

Then I zoom in. What am I seeing? What am I assuming? What am I feeling? What is my role in this? What changes when I look at it differently?

Over the past fifteen years, these questions have led me into a broad and deep exploration. I studied self-awareness, behavioural patterns, approaches to healing, breathwork, power structures, human dynamics and consciousness. I also explored how our thoughts, emotions, beliefs and bodies influence what we perceive around us.

I spent time in different circles concerned with spirituality, personal development and new ways of organising ourselves and living together.

Again and again, I saw the same pattern. We want to live with love, empathy and spiritual awareness. But when life becomes difficult or we face a hard choice, we often fall back into old patterns. We fail to see our own blind spots, choose ourselves at someone else’s expense, even without intending to, or turn away from what is happening right in front of us. Our minds play a significant role in this: they tell us stories that justify our behaviour.

I, too, lived mainly in my head for years without realising it. Until I reached a point in 2011 when I could no longer continue as I had been. On paper, everything looked right, but inside I felt that life could be different. I just did not know how.

In 2012, a spiritual experience showed me what a different state of consciousness feels like. It was intense, literally mind-blowing, and it changed the direction of my life.

I managed to remain in that state for a few months. After that, I did not return to how I had been before, but I was not yet grounded in this new way of being either. In 2017, I began practising again, consistently, for three weeks. And suddenly, the connection was there again. Since then, I have felt a deep sense of trust, connection and lightness. Enlightenment is not something that simply happens to you. You can learn to return to this natural way of being.

But why would you want to? For a long time, I found that difficult to answer.

Now I see clearly why it matters. We live among competing narratives, opinions, manipulation, threats and struggles for power. How do you stay grounded amid all that? How do you live without constantly reacting from fear? How do you hold on to trust? How do you distinguish what is true from what you are being told? And how do you choose your own direction?

That has become the focus of my work. A great deal will change in the coming decades, and we stand at a crossroads. For centuries, our survival depended on belonging to the group. For many of us, that is no longer physically true in the same way, but emotionally we still feel that dependence strongly. To me, this is where a fundamental shift is needed.

If we want to become steadier within ourselves, personal development alone is not enough. Self-insight helps us recognise our patterns. The question is whether we can remain connected to ourselves when those patterns are triggered.

Eventually, these threads came together in The Alignment Arc: a practical framework for developing the capacities this requires and learning to meet life differently.

And then came Meraviglia.

In 2023, I moved to Piemonte after unexpectedly coming across an old cascina in the Italian hills. [Read more about Meraviglia here.]

Gradually, the house and my work began to fall into place. Meraviglia offers a supportive setting where individuals and small groups can experience The Alignment Arc in practice. I value having this alongside the work I do with people online.

We live in remarkable times. My wish for you is that, like me, you can continue to find something to wonder at every day.

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