On the surface, I've always come across as a successful lady, happy-go girl, and someone who achieved most goals and targets she set herself for. I hold a University Master in Physics, and a PhD in Meteorology, and have worked as scientist for 18 years, including 15 years in a world leading organisation. This alone would have granted me the right to be called a successful person under most standards that our society and culture push upon us.

And yet, deep down, I felt stuck on a perpetual rollercoaster between desiring to be more, have more, do more, give more and the strong belief that I didn’t deserve what my mind dared to desire. I had a growing need to reconcile the way I felt inside with the image I projected on the outside... but my sense of self-worth was non-existent. My self-esteem was literary under my feet. The set of beliefs that were running on my subconscious were holding me back in so many ways.

I held on my life, running on that imaginary rollercoaster, until one day the unimaginable happened. I burned out at work.

When that happened, I had to do the work I had been procrastinating for years, and tackle the inside job.