02/03/2026
2016 - 2026
Closing a 9 year cycle – better late than never.
This is Marina, 2016 - sweet 20 years old.
She just discovered her love for traveling. She went to Marokko, Prague, Venice, Tenerife, Madrid, Croatia, London and Budapest - knowing that this is just the start. She got hungry for life. She is studying her Bachelor of Psychology at the moment, spends most of her time alone or with her partner from that time. She sat her first Vipassana and it opened a new world for her. In summer 2016 she reads 13 books - all with a spiritual or psychological note - her obsession has begun. Joe Dispenza, Eckhardt Tolle, Paolo Coehlo, books about hypnosis, self-healing, the power of the mind, chakras, you name it. It’s the year where she felt for the first time: “I have the power to heal and shift my life.”
Back then she was deep in the grip of an eating disorder, she spiralled regularly into depression. Spring 2016 her mom even had to come to the town she studied in because she couldn’t get out of the grip of depression.
But then finally: a feeling that there is light at the end of the tunnel: alternative healing modalities paired with psychology. She started to meditate, use art to process her emotions, started journaling, doing a course in Quantum Healing, going to Family Constellations, worked intuitively with the mirror to overcome her distorted body image.
She had her first fotoshooting - deeply insecure but also proud. Something she always wanted to do but felt too “fat” for it.
2016 was the first year not getting black out drunk and starting to feel confident being by herself, working on herself, training and spending time in nature.
Its the year where she decided to end a really loving relationship out of hunger for life - knowing that she wants to explore the inner and outer world so so much more and that for that she has to move away, spread her wings and jump into the Unknown.
She was also still struggling with depression, still using w€€d to calm down in the evenings, not having friends because she’s so different, still obsessed with her body and feeling fat, working out a lot so she would finally feel pretty. But what she doesn’t know yet:
