Hi, I’m Nina 🌺
I grew up and came of age in Germany, shaped by many narratives of what a “normal” or successful life should look like. Early in my adult life, I began to feel out of step with these assumptions and found myself exploring other ways of living and relating. Since then, my life has been shaped by an ongoing questioning of many social norms around education, work, success, health, family, and relationships. Alongside this has been a gradual search for ways of living that feel more honest and relational to me.
These questions took shape through extended stays in Central America and East Africa, encounters with people there, and books, films, and songs that challenged the narratives I had grown up with. My path since then has been marked by returns, shifts between places, and lessons learned over time. My family and I are currently living on a remote island in Panama, the home of my husband, where we run a small tourism business (Surf&Chill Bastimentos). Living here has deepened my awareness of how my life is entangled with everything around me – including systems and structures I did not choose, and it has nourished an ongoing curiosity about how to stay human, relational, and responsive within them. This inquiry has also led to the decision to unschool our three sons, opening further fields of exploration and unlearning.
The ways I have learned to attend, notice, and practice presence over the years include different approaches. I have learned through life itself, through intentional reading and inquiry, and through participation in more structured learning spaces. Along the way, I have been supported by a range of practices and frameworks, including The Work of Byron Katie, Internal Family Systems (IFS), the reclamation work developed by Peter Koenig, the GTDF Collective’s pedagogical tools, neurobiology, meditation, breath work, embodiment, and homeopathy.
Alongside these threads, I have found an online home in the Conscious Tribes Community. Since 2024, I have also been working as the editor of their newsletter, a role that brings together my love for writing, inner work, and the exploration of new-ancient-emerging ways of living and relating.
In 2026, I became a certified practicioner for moneywork and reclamation work in the Love in Business ecosystem. Bringing this together with my foundation as a Psychological Counsellor (Psychologische Beraterin in Germany) and the other practices that are dear to my heart, I have begun to share my knowledge, experience, and gifts through online coaching.
I value being in small groups – online as well as in person – to hold space for each other, exchange ideas, and practise openness, honesty, and compassion.
Solitude and silent contemplation are equally important to me, offering space to listen to what is unfolding inside me and to be with what is present.
Sometimes my life seems very simple, and sometimes it seems utterly complicated – and that’s ok.
My favourite place to be is surrounded by the natural, more-than-human world – whether it’s on a mountain, in the forest, at a lake, river, waterfall, or the beach.