Meet Zorana

I used to think peace was something I had to chase.

I was born in former Yugoslavia, where the energy of war shaped my earliest years and wired my nervous system for survival long before I ever knew what safety felt like. My body learned to stay on high alert, always anticipating danger. Even when life became quiet, the war inside me continued.

From a young age, I lived with fear like it was a part of me. My heart constantly murmured and raced, my breath stayed shallow, and panic could rise without warning. School became its own battlefield. Test anxiety shut my mind down completely, a survival response I did not yet understand. Every blackout deepened the belief that I was a failure, and that belief followed me everywhere.

At fifteen, I broke my tailbone. I had no idea then that the pain was about to become chronic and claim me for the next fifteen years. My root center became a reservoir of tension and unprocessed emotion. I did not know trauma could stay inside the body long after the moment ends. I only knew the pain never left me and it felt unfair to be so young and live in a body that hurt constantly.

By thirty, after giving birth to my second child, that same pain spread through every bone in my body. My whole body ached constantly like I had been struck by a bus. Every test came back normal, yet nothing about my life felt normal. I checked for fevers constantly because the ache felt familiar, like the flu, but lasting months on end. The fear that this would become my new reality weighed heavily on me. When I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and told there was no cure, it felt like a life sentence. My mind was foggy, my patience gone, and my spirit was fading. I felt myself losing my mind and my will to live.

I searched for help everywhere. Doctors only offered another prescription but no real solutions. I had tried every recommended medical option. Nothing helped long term. I felt hopeless and invisible inside my own body. My newborn cried endlessly, and I knew she was sensing the chaos inside me. I thought I was broken. I thought I had failed as a mother, a wife, and a woman. I did not yet realize that this breaking was the beginning of my awakening.

My awakening began quietly, like a thin ray of light breaking through a storm. I saw a vision of myself playing with my children, free from pain. A whisper of hope rose from within, urging me to look deeper and remember that healing was possible. That whisper changed everything.

I refused to accept that this would be my life. I became devoted to understanding my nervous system. I learned that years of fear had trained my body to stay in fight or flight. The pain was not random. My body was not my enemy. It had been trying to protect me all along.

Then the right books began to find me. They taught me about the subconscious mind, the intelligence of the body, and the stories it holds. Ayurvedic practitioners appeared in my path and brought ancient wisdom and healing into my life. I became aware of the harmful ingredients in our everyday foods and products and shifted to clean and conscious living. I felt a strong pull to energy healing and became trained as a Reiki Master, which strengthened my intuition and trust in the guidance I was receiving. 

I found a drive and desire to read that I had never felt in my life. I always hated reading, yet suddenly I could not put anything down. I buried my head deep in study of universal laws, quantum physics, metaphysics and manifestation, following the breadcrumbs of truth wherever they led. That path brought me to sacred scripture, and I bought my first Bible, not for religion but for revelation. I wanted to read between the lines, and the more I did, the more I felt this ancient wisdom rise within me, quiet codes that my soul already seemed to know. It felt like remembering rather than discovering.

My lifestyle shifted completely. I allowed myself to finally prioritize my own healing. I had to work through the guilt and voices I heard within calling me "lazy" as I tried to rest, but I kept reminding myself of something I had then freshly discovered and written down "The mother was the nervous system of the household and if she was not well, the home is not well." I meditated, grounded, visualized, forgave, journaled, ate a clean Ayurvedic balancing diet, released stored emotions, put up boundaries and rewrote my patterns one day at a time.Then something beautiful happened, something that showed me the divine order working in my life all along. Within only two months of this conscious shift I had made, I woke up one morning and realized I hadn’t complained about pain in weeks. The fibromyalgia that had taken over my life was simply gone. The fifteen years of tailbone pain I thought I’d carry forever had dissolved like it was never there. The brain fog lifted, and suddenly I could think clearly again, like someone had turned the lights back on in my mind. 

It didn't take long for me to notice I began to see more clearly too and no longer needed the prescription glasses or the Lasik procedure I was saving for. It was as though my body had been waiting for permission to heal, and the moment I surrendered, it remembered its natural state of wholeness. It remembered what it felt like to be free. It felt as though I had been given a new body and a second chance at life.

For the first time in my life, I felt real peace. Not the peace I had spent years chasing, but the peace that comes when the body finally feels safe. My nervous system, which had been stuck in survival mode since I was a kid, finally relaxed its grip. I could breathe deeper, all the way down into my belly. My heart wasn’t racing anymore. The tightness in my chest was gone. I wasn’t at war with my own reality anymore.

This wasn’t just physical healing. Something deeper was awakening in me, something I had been searching for my whole life without knowing what it was. I surrendered. And in that surrender, I found my faith. I opened my heart to God, not as a distant or fear-based authority, but as a loving Divine intelligence I felt guiding me from within. I forgave myself for all the years I believed I wasn’t enough. I forgave the little girl who thought she had to earn worthiness. I forgave the people who couldn’t hold space for my pain because they were drowning in their own.

Instead of seeking validation from a world that was never going to understand my journey, I began listening to the truth that had always lived within me. The pain that once defined me became my greatest teacher. The fear that controlled me revealed exactly what needed healing. Through investing in my own personal development I was able to release all the old patterns that kept me trapped and the girl who once felt like a failure discovered a wisdom she could never have learned any other way. What once felt like suffering revealed itself as preparation.

As my healing stabilized, my purpose and passion became clear. I knew I was meant to walk with others who felt lost in their bodies and overwhelmed by their minds, just as I once had. I wanted to support others in the deepest way possible, so I became qualified as a Trauma-Informed Life Coach and Facilitator, trained in many of the same somatic and subconscious practices that helped me rise. I became certified in Basic Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Breathwork, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping), Quantum Healing, and Sound and Frequency Therapy so I could guide others with skill, knowledge, wisdom, and integrity.

Today, I work with individuals whose nervous systems are locked in survival. People who feel overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or in chronic pain despite having done everything they were told would help. I help them understand that nothing is wrong with them. Their symptoms are not flaws or failures, but intelligent responses from a body whose program is no longer serving them.

Through my own healing, I came to see how deeply conditioned we have been to equate our worthiness with productivity. Hustle culture trains the nervous system to live in threat, constantly striving, and trying to earn safety through effort. Healing does not come from doing more. It comes from restoring safety in the body. When the nervous system regulates, perception changes, identity stabilizes, and life begins to respond differently. I know because I've seen the truth of this myself and devoted to teaching it.. Your worth is not something to prove or achieve. It is inherent. As it reflects in scripture and a verse I've studied in my own rewiring, it states in Matthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they, O you of little faith?” 

Since the pandemic, fear has become the baseline state for many. More people than ever are living in fight or flight without realizing it, trapped in bodies that feel unsafe and lives that feel heavy or disconnected. I know this state intimately. And I also know the way out. Working with me is not about being fixed or saved. It is about being guided out of survival and back into safety, clarity, and trust. Not through force,  but through embodiment, truth, and alignment. The version of you that has everything you deeply desire already exists. The universe is simply waiting for you to stop surviving and start aligning.