"Living life like a labyrinth, not like maze"
Thank you for finding my site.
Let me start by presenting myself and ellaborate on my link with labyrinths.
For a long time, my life felt like a maze.
I was trying to hold everything together: my entrepreneurship, single parenthood, responsibility, expectations. While inside I felt uncertain, tired, and quietly ashamed. I encountered failure and betrayal, moments where something seemed to work, only to be replaced by yet another decision, another adjustment, another inner question.
Over time, these experiences left deeper marks. Beneath the surface, I carried emotions I rarely named: a sense of unworthiness, shame, and the feeling that I had failed. Not just in circumstances, but in who I was allowed to be. I learned how to keep going, but I slowly lost the feeling of being at home in myself.
In 2019, something inside me said: stop.
Instead of continuing on willpower, I chose to step out of my entrepreneurial life for a while. I chose travel, silence, and distance. Not to escape, but to listen. That was when I encountered the labyrinth in Finland.
Walking the labyrinth touched something deep. It invited me to slow down and to stay with what was present, to feel and to hear again. The path held me while emotions surfaced. The labyrinth did not ask me to fix or explain these feelings. It simply allowed them to be seen, felt, and gradually released.
The labyrinth helped me heal what words could not reach. It restored trust in my body, my pace, and my inner wisdom. Step by step, I began to remember that I was not broken. I was human, shaped by experience, and still whole.
That was the moment I understood:
Life is not a maze. Life is a labyrinth.
The labyrinth gave me the space it did not found before. I reconnected with myself and I healed my deep emotions. I discoverd a soulconnection with the labyrinth and a purpose for me here on earth.
As a mother to Lena, as a future wife to Kelly, and as a mother to my two plus daughters, I learned that true strength grows from gentleness and presence.
From this journey, Neolabyrinthium was born.
My work grew organically from my own healing process. Over time, I translated my experience, sensitivity, and intuition into concrete forms: labyrinth designs, finger labyrinths, rituals, retreats, and a book. What began as a personal journey became a way of holding space for others, not to lead them somewhere, but to support them in meeting themselves again.
Today, I work with people who feel the call to reconnect, not because they are failing, but because they long to live in truth, in pureness, and at their own rhythm. The transformation my work makes possible is quiet yet profound: a return to inner strength, self-trust, and embodied clarity.
I do not walk ahead of you.
I create a safe space where you can slow down, listen, and become.
If you wish to continue, you are warmly invited to explore how my lived experience, talents, and labyrinth-based work have taken shape and how they might support you on your own path of becoming.
"Life does not need to be solved.
It needs to be walked".
Yes, it's time! Are you ready to step out of the maze and live your life like a labyrinth?
Follow my next webinar If this question triggers you and you feel that transformation is taking place in your life.
What I can do for you
Over the past years Cathy has experimented, learned and discovered some specific talents and felt her personal passion in this domain.
Inspiration
Cathy is an inspirational speaker. She shares her toughts on life, lifestyle and leadership via the comparison between "living life like a maze or a labyrinth?
Book her for an interview on a podcast, a public speaking event or other.
Her topics are:
1. "Life is a labyrinth not a maze": another view on stress, burn-out and life itself
2." The Silent Leader": what we can learn from silence and labyrinths
3. "Labyrinths in cities for silence, reflection and connection": creating healthy and happy cities
Facilitating & Ceremonies
Cathy is a trained facilitator in walking labyrinths. She does faciliations for personal development, workshops and webinars. In her previous carreer path she was coach and trainer. And certified in appreciative inquiry facilitation. She created her 'Transition trajectory for men and women above 45'
She also gives ceremonies using the labyrinth eg. for growth ceremonies for 12 year olds and grief to release ceremonies.
Cathy works on location or on the Oase van Rust (Brecht)
Healing walks
Working with Cathy was a very warm, deap, empathic experience. She takes her time to follow my flow and is a very good soft mirror to stimulate my healing and growth. The healing walk was transformative. The Oase van Rust is a very light but high energyplace with nice spots and a labyrinth.
David, aug 2025
Labyrinth walk
I love to walk the labyrinth when Cathy is facilitating. She is a real Gatekeeper and makes me feel safe and protected when I walk the labyrinth. She is in good connection with the labyrinth knowledge and energy. Looking foreward to another walk.
Ariane, july 2025
