Ece Ertemalp · Embodiment & Intuitive Wellbeing · Netherlands
I spent years learning how to perform, achieve and take care of everything around me. I had to learn how to listen to myself.
My story
The life that looked perfect
For most of my life, my body carried a tension I couldn't name. A delicate nervous system. A stomach that was always uneasy. Hormones that never quite settled. Doctors found no clear solution. I tried every fix along the way: no gluten, no lactose, superfoods, fasting and other trends.
I entered one of Turkey's top universities on a full scholarship, became an engineer, built a career as an international sales manager, traveled the world, and managed 20+ countries across Asia, Africa & the Middle East. A full social life, endless hobbies.
From the outside, it looked exactly like the life I'd dreamed of.
The question that changed everything
And then it stopped making sense. I began to ask questions I'd never asked before.
Who am I? What do I actually love? How does my body even feel?
And I realized: I had no answers.
That inner questioning, at 28, became the turning point of my life.
Coming home tomyself
I left my corporate path, moved to the Netherlands and and started again from zero. Then I dived into over 1,300 hours of training: yoga, mindfulness, Ayurveda, space holding, and so many others.
Over the years, I learned from many teachers and many places. Prof. Ruth Baer in the Oxford Mindfulness program. An Ayurvedic healing village in India. Godfrey Devereux's modern yet ancient teachings. Two months in Bali. Ten days of silence.
Every one of them sent me back to the same place. My own body.
FROM MY JOURNAL, 2025
“It's been a long time since I felt my stomach this soft. I've never experienced breathing this gently, a mind this calm. I really cried for this. I didn't know it was possible.”
Where it all came together
At the beginning of 2026, I found myself close to burnout. Running my own business abroad, living the dream but something wasn't working inside. Feeling exhausted.
I took my own hand with compassion. You know the way back. Let's return.
It had taken 35 years for my body to step out of survival mode the first time. This time I went back to what my body already knew. I remember again what my real key is.
How it lives in me now
I start each day by checking in with myself. How am I feeling? What does my body need today? I follow the moon, my cycle, the seasons.From there, I adjust the pace of my day as much as I can: what I eat, how I move, and how I rest.
It's funny. I started with Latin dance, then tango, then ecstatic, intuitive dance. I cooked from healthy recipe books, now I sense what the body needs, and I cook intuitively.
"I will keep holding the hand of that little girl, that wild woman full of passion and together, we will find our way back, again and again."
The Approach
Intuition is not a mystical gift. It is a form of intelligence, one that grows through practice, presence, and time. It lives in every woman, and it becomes available when the mind and body start working in harmony.
Most of us were taught to push through. So the body gets louder. Usually as symptoms, or as that feeling that something is off when everything looks fine on paper.
It starts in the nervous system. We slow down, feel safe in the body, and soften. Then the body's signals become audible again.
You learn how to respond to them and how to live by them. You become a woman connected to herself, her power, and life.
The Tools
Nervous System Care
Learning to settle the body's stress response. Moving from survival mode into rest, safety, and ease.
Somatic Practice
Working with the body directly through movement, breath, and sensation to release what words can't reach.
Cyclical Living
Eating, moving and resting with the seasons, the moon and your own cycle.
And when that knowing becomes your guide, you stop outsourcing your decisions to rules, trends, or other people's plans. You begin to live intuitively.
Understand your body's signals: You notice your jaw is tight before the headache starts.
Feel more supported in daily life: You say no without explaining yourself for ten minutes.
Work with your own rhythm: You know the week before your period needs a slower pace, and you plan for it.
Trust your own experience: You eat what your body asks for, without a rulebook.
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