Hi my name is “Sami Fakhreddine”, I was born in Beirut-Lebanon, my father is Lebanese and my mother Swiss. I am blessed and grateful that I was born into this family. I was the youngest of 4 children, have two older sisters and an older brother. Having had a beautiful childhood growing up by the beach in “Tyre” south of Lebanon. War broke out in 1975, I was 2 years old. Terror and fear spread and things got worse with time, so in 1986 we fled and moved to Zurich-Switzerland, I was 12 years old. We were very lucky that no one in the family was harmed and having a Swiss mum made immigration to Switzerland easy. Life in Switzerland was peaceful, but my mother had health issues and my father couldn’t find work as a doctor because he was close to retirement. That brought a lot of anxiety and worry to us. My puberty wasn’t easy, I got severe acne with the age of 14 and it broke my self-image, and the reason that it broke out that I found out when I was healing my past was that "I wasn't good enough" for my dad and I also had bad marks at school, so I was down grated to a lower level. When I was 17 I got beaten up by a couple of guys who had pleasure beating others up and that took away my self-confidence and self-worth. Regarding my mum I was always positive that she would make it because she was strong. But unfortunately her health got worse, she had to stop working and go to hospital. After spending Christmas Eve together in 1995, she passed away and left a big hole in our hearts. I was 22, I finished my apprenticeship as a toolmaker a year before and worked a year to save money to go travel the world. With grief and sadness I left for my world trip and my first stop was Australia, then New Zealand, Fiji, Cook Island, Hawaii and California. I spend 9 month surfing and touring the world, and it gave me hope and will to continue to live. Coming back to Switzerland, everything changed, my dad went back to Lebanon, our family home wasn’t there anymore, so I moved with my oldest sister. I felt lost, and I didn’t want to go back to tool making because it wasn’t my passion, so I was unemployed and looked for other options but couldn’t find a better one, so I went back to tool making. I stayed a couple of years in Switzerland, but Australia was calling me and my dream was to live there because the lifestyle was perfect for me. After the immigration process I moved to the Gold Coast in 2003 for 2 years. Since I love sport in general and fitness, I did my Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer certification with the Australian Institute of Fitness. After 2 years on the Gold Coast I decided to move to Sydney because I couldn't find work as a trainer and I had to work other jobs to survive. In Sydney, life was better, and I found a job as a trainer straightaway and I felt in the right place. With a lifelong interest in acting, I attended courses at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and began to go to castings. My passion for acting became bigger, so my dream was to go to America to become an actor. Before I left Australia, I became an Australian citizen. I lived in Sydney for 2 years. Back to Switzerland my plan was to work for a year and go to the America, but life had a different plan for me. I moved to Geneva. At that time my father was very ill with cancer, so we brought him to Switzerland for treatment, but they couldn’t do anything for him, and he passed away, I was 34. After 1.5 years in Geneva I moved to Lausanne and stayed there for 2.5 years. I worked as a trainer and on the side I was building my acting career. Finally, in 2011 I managed to go to the United States to do an acting course in New York and right after I went to Los Angeles to inquire about the acting business and quickly realized how difficult this business is, after 3 months I went back to Switzerland. I found another job as a trainer in Lausanne and kept working on my acting career. In 2013, I got a scholarship at the acting school in L.A. and I was intended to go in June 2013, but my student visa didn’t come on time and I rescheduled the course to January 2014, but I couldn’t get the money together, and I tried everything in my power. So I lost my scholarship, I felt depressed and frustrated and having missed a huge opportunity to pursue an acting career. Having no job, no money, I was unemployed again. Later I found out from students that the school was not serious at all, and they were scamming student! It was a huge relief for me and I thanked God for closing all doors for me, so I couldn’t go there and get scammed. After this event I lost the passion to pursue my acting career in America and I asked myself if I was doing it because of the love of acting or because I wanted to be a big Hollywood star? So that everyone admires and loves me because I didn't have enough self-love? And to be honest with myself, I was following my ego! And seeing the dark side of the acting business I was disgusted from it. So after 10 years of struggle to become an actor, my energy ran out, and I decided to stop. During one of the darkest periods in my life I found the “Emotion Code” and started to read and learn more about it. I moved back to Zurich at that time and I found a job as a trainer, so life was getting better. In 2014, I set myself new goals to work off my setbacks, so I decided to prepare the Half Ironman Rapperswil and Ironman Zurich and I successfully finished both in 2015. Working as a trainer no longer fulfilled me and also the fitness industry was badly paid, and I couldn’t see a future in it, and also I never felt I was the born trainer. Also, having a boss that made work a living hell pushed me to change my path. Losing motivation at work I got fired. It was summer 2015, and I knew a client from the gym that was the manager of a nearby swimming pool and I always wanted to be a lifeguard, so he hired me. While working as a lifeguard I was learning and implementing the Body Code. Seeing positive transformations in myself also seeing a future in natural healing, I decided to do the Emotion and Body Code certifications in 2016 and became the first male certified practitioner in Switzerland! In 2017, things had to change, I wasn’t happy with my job also I felt Switzerland wasn’t the right country for me. I had a strong feeling I wasn’t fulfilling my potential. My vision was to have my own healing business. So I mustered up the courage and decided I would finish the summer season, quit my job, leave Switzerland, go travel again and settle down either in Australia or Portugal.
Now I have been living happily since 3 years in Portugal by the beach, running my own business as an Emotion & Body Code Practitioner. And I look forward to meeting, helping you on your healing journey and to manifest your dreams and desires.
