Hi! I’m Nadja.
Certified Rapid Transformational Therapy® Practitioner, Hypnotherapist and a Special education Teacher.
Stubbornly in love with the sun, sea and warmth. Book collector and avid reader. I love nature and untangling my thoughts by walking. Some will say I’m a hopeless romantic… if that means always being a curious child at heart, finding beauty in the smallest of things. Capturing the enchanted moments hidden in the everyday. Eternal optimist. Mother of two beautiful daughters who are my biggest inspiration, source of strength and mirror of truth.
I grew up in Croatia, on the magical island of Rab where I finished primary, secondary and high school. My childhood was happy and magical until the war in 1990 between Croatia and Serbia. I witnessed the collapse of one mighty and prosperous country which turned into ashes overnight and all that was left was grief, hatred, xenophobia, unsurmountable differences, rage and hopelessness. Suddenly everything around me changed. Suddenly I saw the world with different eyes – and this was not a friendly world anymore. The fact that my father was Serbian turned him into enemy overnight and with him my whole family. I learned to become ashamed of my heritage and my name. I learned to become ashamed of who I am. I was afraid to say my surname out loud lest somebody might hurt me with their words. There were even death threats to my family. There and then I formed a belief that I don’t belong and that became a part of my identity.
These years shaped me as a person and contributed to me developing severe social anxiety which I couldn’t get rid of until my 40s. I also developed hyper-vigilance, depression and anxiety disorder, zero confidence and extremely low self-esteem. My family survived the war but we have never recovered emotionally. My teenage years were marked by hopelessly trying to help my parents but I didn’t have the strength. And there is nothing more painful than seeing the person you love wither away in grief and you are just powerless to help them.
Little did I know how much this experience would pave the way for my true calling, which I found later in life, at the threshold of my 40s.
After my studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, where I earned a Master’s Degree in English and South Slavic languages and literature, I worked as a school teacher for the next 15 years.
The big life change happened in 2017 when my husband and I decided to leave Croatia and move our family to Germany, a small province town in Bavaria, Augsburg.
Those were very difficult years for me and my loved ones; years of scarcity, loneliness, loss of my father, depression, existential crisis, search for belonging and the feeling that I would never fit in, never find my place under the sun which would accept me.
In the professional sense, I also experienced countless challenges because the German state did not recognize my academic achievements and many years of experience, and I had to say goodbye to my teaching career forever.
I had to start over from scratch and rebuild myself.
Now I see those years of my life as a gift because they were catalyst for change. Only later did I realize that everything I had experienced and achieved up to that point happened for a reason – to finally find out who I really am and what is my role on this planet.
Because I had already seen glimpses of my true calling through the wholes in the box in which I put myself years ago. Ever since I was little, I had this feeling, this strong intuition that I was meant for something special. I really loved teaching (and I still consider it one of the noblest professions in the world), but the same feeling always haunted me – that I was made for something more, that I was meant to be a part of something bigger than myself. Some intuition was always whispering that my purpose and my mission existed outside the framework in which I was living.
And so, I clicked the RESET button and started over.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear,” says the old proverb, and that’s exactly what happened to me. I sat down with myself, my future was an open slate and I asked myself some questions:
- What is your true calling?
- What are you meant to do on this planet?
- What is your mission and how can you contribute to this society?
And most importantly: What is it that needs to heal in order for me to achieve the next step of my existence?
And then I came across Rapid Transformational Therapy® quite by accident, which changed my life.
With the help of this therapeutic method, I managed to cure a chronic health problem that I had had for 20 years and for which the medical profession told me that there was ‘no cure’. I also got to grips with my damaged mental health: trauma from the war, social anxiety, fears, depression, lack of self-esteem and non-existent self-confidence.
I decided to become an RTT® therapist myself and that was the best decision of my life. I finally fulfilled that strong need from my childhood – to heal and to help other people. And this time I am not powerless anymore. I have the tools and the capacity to change people’s lives for the better. I couldn’t help my parents but now I can help and save many, many families by healing emotional trauma.
RTT® was just the beginning – it opened many wonderful doors for me.
Somehow, I managed to find the way to work in the German school system with the most vulnerable children. On recommendation from my friend and RTT colleague, I decided to take part in the Vision Journaling Program and meet so many wonderful people who would become my colleagues and my friends.
I finally found power in understanding what really happened to me and exposed all negative beliefs, patterns of thought and behaviour that were holding me back in life. I came to grips with fears, self-doubt and layers of other people’s belief system that I accepted as my own. I’m still peeling those layers off one by one but I can finally catch my breath after a long, long time.
And every small victory brings me closer to who I really am.
It brings me closer to my mission.
And my mission is that as an RTT® therapist myself, I help other people find themselves, free themselves from the shackles of their negative beliefs and live their full potential, bravely and authentically.