About me
My name is Elena Nachite, I am a Systemic Mindfulness Coach and Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) trainer from Munich. My heart's mission is to facilitate for others what I have been working on for a long time - knowing that it was coaches and healers who acted as catalysts for my development and thus brought me forward.
As a graduate of the Mindful Masters Academy from the successful coach, best-selling author and my mentor, the wonderful Sarah Desai↗︎ I am grateful to be able to help people profoundly and guide them professionally.
On my path, I was able to learn to better understand my own emotional background and form of expression and to use it to my advantage, instead of demonizing what is going on inside me again and again and punishing myself because I “can’t just be normal” and it “doesn’t just stop” hurting so much.
Since I’ve learned to accept and use myself and everything that's going on inside me, I lead a happier, easier life and face challenges with a completely different attitude.
I am convinced that this positive change is possible for everyone.
I take a holistic approach to my work. However, two focus topics have become particularly important:
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Our emotions, how they express themselves and what they want to signal to us.
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Perhaps the biggest topic of all: communication and how we manage to understand each other better.
Focus topic:
Emotions
Properly understood and used, they can be an absolute boost for us. They help us to make the right small and big decisions in life and move step by step towards our best life.
Unfortunately, we are still socially conditioned to categorize our feelings and see the "bad" emotions as something we shouldn't even have.
"Calm down already!", "Stop crying right now!" and "Get a grip!" are things that many of us heard, in one way or another, in childhood and that showed us that we are only accepted if we are "good", behave and function - suppressing our feelings when they influence a situation in which we are expected to behave in a certain way.
But no matter how much energy we invest in controlling them, they always come up again. And for good reason!
Because our feelings are signals and part of how our body and mind communicate with US and want to show us what is right for us - not for others. However, if we don't give them space, we may even become physically impaired. Our body will not stop sending us signals until we finally pay attention to them.
But because we are so trained to think of feelings such as anger or sadness as something bad, many people find it difficult to change their perspective. And this is exactly where I want to provide support.
Focus topic:
Communication
It's almost ironic that language developed in order to be able to discuss complex issues - in the meantime, however, communication itself seems to have become one of the most complex challenges of our time. And not only because we have become much more multicultural and many of us often "meet" in English, especially in a work context, even though no one in the group is a native speaker.
Even when we communicate in our native language and in person, frustration and misunderstandings often arise. This is because what words we use and how we mean them is massively influenced by who we are, what influences we have been exposed to and even what emotional and mental state we are in at the moment of conversation.
No wonder we keep running into dead ends here – often with the very people we would expect to know and understand us best.
It becomes all the more difficult when we want to communicate about our feelings and needs. This is where the issues come together again. Because we have not learned to deal with our feelings, we have not learned to talk about them with others. This is often a huge burden for any kind of interpersonal relationship.
But it is a challenge that can be overcome with the right tools and attention to our own needs and those of the other person.