Resonance – Episode 2
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Speaker: Viktoria Levenberg
I feel quite nervous and vulnerable to have shared all this and to be putting it out in the world.
I grew into a family of really high achievers. For them, work and being a high achiever and high performer all meant survival.
I started to break apart, like the lowest of my lows. And that was also the moment where I was like, oh—oh, okay, like we've got to do something about this.
Alright, this episode is definitely one that you want to stick around for. I dive really deep and raw into my background, my story, my moment of when everything changed.
And, um, before we dive in, I did also just want to make a disclaimer that there will be mentions of abuse and self-harm and trauma in this episode. So if that feels like something that is maybe not in resonance with you right now, if that feels like something that may not be something that you're ready to hear, then perhaps you may wish to jump to the next episode.
And if you are ready, just make sure you take care of yourself, and I ask that you receive what I'm sharing here vulnerably, with compassion, kindness, and love. I'll see you on the inside.
Welcome to Resonance, a podcast for ambitious, heart-led humans craving more balance, depth, and aliveness in their lives. I'm your host Vik—health coach, yoga teacher, facilitator, and fellow high achiever, learning to live in tune with my nervous system, not against it.
This space is here to remind you that you can have it all—the career, the success, the fulfilment—all aligned with your truth. Through honest conversations, expert insights, and practical tools, we'll explore how to work with your body, mind, emotions, and spirit, not against them.
And the best part? You don't have to stay stuck in survival mode to get there. Because true wellbeing is not about being perfect. It's about being in resonance. Let's dive in.
Before we get started, maybe I invite you to just briefly notice your breath. And just notice how you're feeling right now—in your body, your mind, perhaps any emotions.
What are your energy levels like right now? Just no judgment, simply noticing. A little bit of awareness as we ground ourselves into sharing this space together.
And you'll see me weaving in these little moments of groundedness, because, man, we're approaching winter. Can we just, like, put the hustle culture on pause for a little moment? Chill out.
And so hopefully, maybe even this space just gives you that little, tiny invitation to do so.
So, we're in Episode 2 of Resonance. This is, uh, really exciting because things are about to get quite personal. And I'm feeling a little bit vulnerable, but, uh, it's okay. That's what I signed up for here, right?
And, um, yeah, I really wanted to actually start with my story because, you know, I wouldn't be expecting anyone to do anything that I'm not willing and able to do myself. And this also goes for kind of sharing my story of burnout to where I currently am at.
And, um, before we bring, you know, guests and experts into the space, it only feels appropriate to start with yours truly.
And as we kind of dive into this, also just a brief little reflection of where I'm at, like right now. For those of you who don't know me kind of so well, personally, I'm a Scorpio as my sun sign. And you know, Scorpio is all about death and rebirth, death and rebirth, death and rebirth.
Like, as I look back at my life, I feel like I've already lived like nine lives in just this one lifetime. And I feel like I'm at this transition point again.
Like, I cannot remember how many times I pulled the death card in my little Oracle deck, um, and it really does feel like that. Like, I'm letting go of some really major things right now so that I can create space for things like this—for things like Resonance, for things like really focusing on making the world a healthier and happier place.
And I just wanted to share that because you'll probably see a lot of that Scorpio nature in the story that I'm going to share with you today.
Also, just embracing that we collectively—at least those of us in the Southern Hemisphere—are right now approaching that kind of harvest, stillness, death cycle in our seasonal cycle, as we come into winter. And you'll hear me weave that in quite a bit throughout the podcast.
Because I'm really, you know, in reverence of our planet and how everything just magically seems to have its own divine way of being—through the seasons, through the moon cycles, through us. Like, for females that are listening to this, if you are female and you have a menstrual cycle, you also go through these four cycles, just like the rest of the planet.
And I'll dive into that in another episode. So, more on that to come. But you may hear me weave that in as, yeah, it's just honouring where we're at.
And we're all on this planet together. So, as individual and disconnected as we may feel sometimes, we do have a thread that ties us all to one.
Let's start with my story.
Hmm. Where to begin?
So, I think by now, if you don't know me, you may be wondering, like, oh, where is this accent from? And I don't blame you—I get this a lot. Most of the time, I get people guessing that I'm Canadian.
Um, most recently, I've also been having people wonder whether I'm Australian, because my partner is an Aussie and I'm, like, picking up a lot of his—that's literally what he sounds like, um, and what I sound like now.
Oh my God, I can't believe I just did that on my podcast. Anyways, um, yeah.
So, brief kind of intro and, uh, life story in a few sentences. So, I was born in Poland in Eastern Europe. Um, my father is Russian with, um, Jewish and Georgian descent, so there's kind of that part of the family.
And then my mother is Ukrainian, and as far as I know, everyone's kind of Ukrainian on her side of the family.
Um, and so I know many of you may already be thinking, oh my goodness, like, what? Russian, Ukrainian in one? Yeah. I go by the UN in person incarnate. This is, like, my background.
And, um, a lot of my nationalities will probably also explain a lot of my worldviews and why I am so open-minded and kind of speak the way I speak and approach things the way I do.
But, yeah, I just thought it was quite important for us to set that up. So, this is the birth and family side of things. And then, um, when I was 8 years old, my parents got divorced, and my mum and I moved to Germany, where I went to an international school and kind of grew up there for the rest of my childhood and teenage years.
And, um, I at that time picked up German, English, Spanish—because I needed a third language. Apparently, it was like my fifth or sixth. Uh, and, um, yeah. I was just surrounded by American and British and Australian teachers, and we call it, like, the international accent.
So, a lot of my friends were American. I was watching a lot of American movies and TV shows, and, um, that's kind of how my accent came into play.
I then moved to Switzerland, uh, to do my uni degree. And I dabbled in French there a little bit; however, um, French and I aren't very good friends. I don't know what it is. It was just some kind of mental block.
Um, some—some kind of whatever it is that my mum's got with German, I've got with French. And, uh, yeah.
Then I was surrounded by more international students, and in that time I also lived in the UK for six months. And then after graduating from uni in Switzerland, I moved over halfway across the world to the place I call home now, which is Auckland, New Zealand.
I got a little New Zealand—the native language of which, by the way, is Te Reo Māori, which I did, like, a one-on-one class in. And, oh my gosh, like, so excited. Really want to dive into the language, but, uh, you know, one step at a time.
Uh, so, yeah. This is, like, my complicated background story from a citizen-of-the-world perspective.
So, if you're wondering where my accent's coming from—I don't know, haha. Like, I just morph into my environments. I really pick things up. Like, when I, um, lived in the UK, I got a little bit of that, like, British English. I don't want to make any silly accents now, because it's just gonna not end well.
Um, there's definitely a bit of a Kiwi twang now. Like, when I went back to Europe last year to catch up with a few of my friends, they were all making fun of some of the words that I use.
So, look, if you stuck around this long, clearly the accent's not bothering you that much. Great, thank you—I am grateful. Um, and we can carry on from there.
So, that is, like, the easy part of my story, I think. And even then, like, there's a strong resistance for me to pick one place when someone asks where I'm from.
Like, when I can't be bothered, I just say one place. Um, but I've had some, like, butting heads with certain people that are like, well no, it's like where you were born is where you're from.
And my ultimate rebuttal to that is that one of my friends from school—her parents were in Korea when they were pregnant with her, on holiday. But she's from Germany, um, but she was born in Korea. She doesn't have any Korean descent, whatever, like—they were just there on holiday and happened to give birth to her there.
Does that make her Korean? You know, it was like, I don't know. So, yeah. Um, I could go on and on about this, but I really just see myself as a citizen of the world. I see us as one humankind, regardless of ethnicity, language, gender, identity—like, none of that really… Like, these are all just labels that we put on ourselves and each other to help us identify ourselves as an individual.
And yet we are all human. We all—
You know, we have mostly the same biology. Let's all just be nice to each other. Citizenship rant over.
Moving into—I think, can you tell I'm, like, deflecting from sharing my actual story? Uh, look, um…
I grew into a family of really high achievers. Like, my dad has his own company that he pretty much built from the ground up. Really successful, you know. They basically live in, like, a different universe or reality, I see it oftentimes.
My mum also, quite strongly self-made, you know, like she—um, just yeah. Such a boss lady, businesswoman. And at the same time, like, I didn't see my family prioritize family, prioritize love, prioritize rest or self-care.
Like, none of that is existent in my memory bank from my childhood. And, um, a lot of that has to do with, sort of, you know, their background and their upbringing. Like, we're talking the Soviet Union, right? Which—the dissolution of that wasn’t too long ago.
Like, they were all growing up in the Soviet Union, waiting for stamps to collect bread. There was not enough food. There were only specific things. Um, there was this kind of feeling of scarcity and fear.
And then, coupled with kind of the trauma from World War II from my dad's side of the family, where obviously there's Jewish descent and, um, yeah—family being in concentration camps and somehow surviving, otherwise I wouldn't be here, right?
But there's just, like, so much trauma there that, you know, as I've been doing kind of my own processing and in my own work with my therapist, I really—looking back, I see how they were just doing the best they could.
And for them, work and being a high achiever and high performer and having money and earning money all meant survival, right? It's like the harder you work, the safer you are, so to speak. And that's what they grew up with.
Because, you know, I also just want to acknowledge, like, the privilege that I and so many of us have now—of, you know, being relatively safe, being in a place where we have shelter, where our tummies are full, you know, where we have the luxury of doing things like listening to and creating podcasts.
Like, this is really, really kind of high up on the Maslow pyramid of needs that we are at. And it's a privilege. And so I just wanted to kind of share that to remind us that we're all just doing the best with what we have and what we know at the time.
Um, and that's kind of where I grew up. And so, growing up with this kind of family dynamic, things really only just escalated when Mom and I moved to Germany.
I mean honestly, like, that time in my life was just—everything blew apart. My whole reality shifted. And my mom is really—like, I think she won't mind me saying this—she's quite a workaholic. Like, she's suffered from burnout herself and wrote a journal book about it and everything.
So, you know, she's been quite open about her journey. And so when we moved to Germany, and it was just the two of us, she was kind of there in her early 30s with a kid, alone in a new country, didn’t speak the language, trying to set up, trying to provide for her family.
And all she did was work. And all she did was also demand of me to work. So, as a little 8-year-old girl, um, I vividly remember this time where we donated all of my toys to an orphanage. And that moment is, like, the moment that my childhood got switched off.
Um, I didn't really play anymore—at least not kind of creatively. Uh, and instead I was asked to do things like organize the receipts for the bookkeeping, or go deep-clean the kitchen, or mop the floors with a rag, even though we had a mop—but that’s how my Nana did it, so that’s how I've got to do it.
You know, there was kind of a lot of that projection of needing to work and perform and be a high achiever and a perfectionist in order to survive.
And I share that to give a little bit of context as to what I grew up with, and what kind of then formed my personality.
And so, you know, fast forward however many years later—10, 15 years later—um, I was a perfectionist, real high achiever. You know, sort of, like, really—man, my ego was solid. Like, I was just so driven, and I wanted to be perfect and do everything right.
And, you know, like, I was like that person who, in my mid-year or year-end reviews at work, the managers would struggle to give me constructive feedback. But of course they'd find something, because, you know, none of us are perfect. And then I would, like, hyper-fixate on that one piece of constructive feedback and, like, make it all mean that I was a failure.
And, like, whenever I would make an innocent mistake, there would just be, like, this really negative self-talk. So yeah, there was a lot of unhealthy behaviour in me where now, after kind of everything I've been through and knowing what I know, um, I realize that I was just living from a dysregulated nervous system.
I was out of resonance. I was mostly in the sympathetic nervous system that we spoke about in the last episode. And I was doing the best I knew with what I had at the time.
And this kind of continued on and on, and I progressed into my career. I—uh, how many jobs did I have? I think I had, like, you know, five roles in five years. Some, like, massive leaps.
And then I got to the point where I was in, like, one of the biggest roles in the business for kind of my equivalent, managing the biggest portfolio. Um, you know, ego up my behind, just kind of like being all this, like, boss girl trying to do it all, be everything for everyone.
And I started to break apart. Like, I didn’t realize it. There were definitely little whispers here and there in that time. But I ended up in an emotionally abusive relationship that I'm still kind of in the recovery from, um.
I left that relationship really abruptly, and, you know, there's still a lot for me to process and work on there. From kind of, like, a—yeah, I think I could have handled it better, uh, in retrospect. But again, I was just doing the best I could and knew at the time.
And that breakup, and then having all that space to myself and that time to myself—like, I just channelled everything. All of that suppressed emotion, all of that stress, all of that anxiety into work.
And so, like, I just—I doubled down on the work. And I was up till midnight and up at 4:00 a.m. And then I started running marathons. And I started vaping. And, like, having these massive blackout nights out.
It was just, like, on one side I was this, like, quote unquote healthy person, who was running marathons and taking care of her diet and, you know, like, real skinny and stuff. And then, on the other hand, I was, like, poisoning my body.
Starving myself because I was so anxious I couldn't eat. And not sleeping. And just emotionally completely numb. Mentally just detached.
Yeah, it was a rough time. And I kind of—I somehow started to, you know, get myself out of that hole, um, with support from, you know, my support network around me.
And then I guess life just kind of thought, you know, this isn’t happening fast enough. Uh, you just need a bit of a slap in the face to get you on the right path.
And so, what happened was I had to face my family—so my father and my stepmom, who I have a really distant relationship with. And even now there's, like, a fear in me that one of my family members will listen to this and I'll get in trouble, or, like, they'll judge me or they'll send someone after me.
I know it's not logical, but this is what's coming up. So I just wanted to voice it and be in integrity about it.
But yeah, basically, um, my stepmom had a traumatic brain injury. She was in a coma. And, um, I didn't find out until, like, maybe a week or two after it happened, from my stepbrother.
And I remember the day after I found out that it happened from my stepbrother, I, like—I had these symptoms on my eyes. Like, my eyes were really puffy. I'd never experienced it before. Thought I just didn’t sleep well. Brush it off, whatever.
And then kind of a few weeks passed, and my dad called me. And, you know, for the first time in my life asked me to help him. And he said, look, I need you. Can you please come to Europe?
And I dropped everything and went. Um, and looking back on it now, I can really see how all of that was just completely overwhelming.
Of course, like, I was still in my overachiever, workaholic self. And I couldn't just take the leave. Um, I took my laptop with me and I was working remotely. I was, like, partly working nights—so, like, 8 p.m. to midnight local time—so that I could be online for some of the New Zealand hours.
And so that was kind of, like, one of the stressors. The other piece was kind of just facing all that stuff that I hadn't kind of dealt with yet about my family.
Um, there were also some things that I am not speaking too publicly about, but kind of from an abuse perspective, that I had to face into.
And then coupled with sort of the trauma of just being in hospitals, in these hospices, witnessing multiple brain surgeries and the recovery thereof, and, like, having to be there as a rock, as a support for someone whom my relationship with is so complex—who I have, like, deep resentment for and fear of.
Just so much confronting me there. And so it was just—it was, like, literally just a bit of a shitstorm, to be honest.
Like, you know, there was the work, the exhaustion, the emotional overwhelm, the what is even going on. And that is when I started to become symptomatic.
So, my whole life I've pretty much been really lucky. I've been quite healthy. And, uh, during those few weeks I started to experience, like, really intense allergy reactions on my face.
So again, those eyelids got really puffy. They were red. Like, my whole face was swollen. It was, like, twice the size.
Um, it—I felt like I was burning alive. Like, I kept putting lotion on, which, like, in retrospect I shouldn't have been doing. But I was in the middle of nowhere—like, there wasn’t even a pharmacy.
And I was around a hospice, like, but no one would help me. So this was, like, another layer on top of all this trauma.
Like, here I am, literally burning up and, like, oozing pus, and no one was helping me—yet I had to help someone else, who was technically supposed to be taking care of me.
Um, yeah.
It was really poetic now that I look back on it.
And yeah, I was really confused, you know. At first we thought maybe it was something I ate, or like the cold, or whatever.
Because I was in the middle of nowhere, I didn't have a car. Like, I couldn't kind of take things into my hands and take care of myself. And I was working in hospitals and taking care of my stepmom and all these things.
And yeah, it just kind of kept getting worse and worse and worse.
Eventually I went home. I thought, okay, when I come to New Zealand, things will settle down. I will get this back under control.
I probably already knew deep down that there was, like, some kind of emotional trigger. And so I thought, okay, there's something there for me to look at—but I'm not ready to look at it yet.
And yeah, so eventually I went back to New Zealand. But the rash—it wasn't going away. Like, they gave me some steroids. It went away for a little bit, then it kept coming back.
And it was just like this constant ebb and flow. Oodles and oodles of specialists and appointments and testing and allergy testing and this and that.
I got prescribed every steroid cream under the sun. I even got prescribed antibiotics by one doctor, when it's like—I don't need antibiotics.
So it was also like a moment of realisation of just how much more there is to our health that is not necessarily always appreciated and proactively looked at in the modern Western medical system.
And yeah, I was just really effing overwhelmed.
And I think that was kind of my breaking point. That was—while I didn't get officially diagnosed—I think that's when I just completely burned out. And I was, I was done.
Like, this is when life just went: something needs to change.
This was my big kind of moment of awakening, of realization, whatever you want to call it, right?
It's also when I started to be more and more conscious and aware of what was coming up for me.
And that year, I then went back again to Europe, because I wasn't ready yet to say no to my parents. There was like a bit of conflict there internally.
And I had, like, some of the hardest days in my life from a mental health perspective.
Like, it got to the point where I contemplated walking into the ocean and just not coming back.
It was the lowest of my lows.
And that was also the moment where I was like, uh oh, okay—like, we've got to do something about this.
And you know, gradually—it wasn't like an overnight thing—but as I look back at this now, and I'm sharing this really pretty vulnerable story, I realize that it was just, like, these little incremental steps, kind of one at a time.
And as I look at what helped me come into resonance, one of the very first things was agency over my body.
As someone who has been abused in the past and has a pretty complex relationship with male figures of authority, you can imagine kind of that dynamic in the healthcare world.
It was quite important for me to take agency over my body and actually feel like I'm heard and appreciated and understood.
So I started going down some alternative healing pathways, like seeing an acupuncturist, who I still see to this day. A naturopath, who I still see when I need to, you know. Like, already giving myself that permission to venture off the beaten path, so to say.
But really, the biggest thing—the biggest turning point for me—was when I stopped drinking alcohol.
And the really sad thing is that, through this journey of kind of testing and inquiry, I had a few things found on some of my organs. And like, there was a voice in my head that said: hey, oh my gosh, maybe if you have cancer, then you can finally stop drinking. And you can finally take care of yourself.
And I was like, what? What? I need to get sick to take care of myself?
And that was also, like, the time when I finally started to differentiate between that inner voice—that inner roommate—and the observer in me.
I was like: what the… are you saying right now? Like, you are literally wishing death, or like an incurable illness, on yourself so that you can take care of yourself.
How messed up is that?
And I know rationally that it was also due to fear of, like, what stopping drinking would do to my relationship with my partner.
One of the biggest ways that we bonded would be over a big night out, which has got its own things to look at, you know.
But at the time it just felt like, oh my God, what is this gonna mean for us?
And I was just so—you know, this whole concept of self-care and doing things for me was so foreign, especially after coming out of an emotionally abusive relationship as well, where I was, like, brainwashed into thinking that doing anything for me is selfish.
It was just all too much.
And luckily my acupuncturist, she recommended a few things to change from a diet perspective. And I was like, okay, no alcohol.
And that was like—ahh. An exhale.
It was just like a sigh of fresh air. I was like, oh, someone told me I can't drink. And that was like that first permission slip that I needed.
Like, I had a few drinks after that here and there, but then I completely stopped. And I've been stone-cold sober since.
And I have no desire to go back whatsoever.
And I realize now that through a lot of the work in my therapy that I've been doing, there's a deeper connection there to sobriety and alcoholism.
And growing up with people who abused alcohol.
Being abused in scenarios that involved alcohol.
Numbing myself with alcohol.
There was just so much there, that just—even taking that one thing out of the equation—was a really big step change for me.
And it's like, as soon as I stopped drinking and being hungover every freaking weekend, I was able to see.
And that catapulted my level of awareness and this journey that I started to be on to come back into resonance.
And yeah, throughout that time I was doing the health coach training program at IIN. I then also did an emotional intelligence coach training—mostly for me.
Like, at that stage I knew I was really passionate about it, and that I would want to do something health and wellness related, like helping people in the future.
But that felt like such a distant, unreachable future. It was more for me than anything else.
And that's really how it is—you are your first client, you know. You dive into this stuff, and you get asked some pretty deep questions.
Like, no stone goes unturned in these programs, because working with people, I can only take people as far as I have been myself, right?
And so, yeah. It was a deep, deep, deep journey of self-exploration.
And through that time, I realized that I was totally unhappy.
I actually—oh my gosh, I didn't even pre-plan this. You're gonna be like, oh, no way. But it's so cool that it's here.
I've got my little notebook, which is from a QT after a holiday in Queenstown. Anyway, um, it's so cute, haha.
That I used for my notes during my health coach training program. And I'll just read this out to you, because I think it explains much better what was already going on in my unconscious than I could explain myself.
Okay, there we go. So, I basically had to do, like, a visualization of what my vision would look like. And they guide you through a meditation, and then you reflect on your experience.
And it was like, yeah, what does your vision of success look like? And this is now verbatim, my little reflection afterwards, which was in, like, 2022—so it was even before all this stuff that I've just shared with you was going on.
Okay: my vision of success felt at peace, happy in a sunny place. A beach with palm trees. Loved ones around me. Laughter.
Making a positive difference in people's lives. Genuine happiness and a sense of fulfilment.
I felt at peace, content. Loved my body. Projected a sense of calm. Emotions of joy, gratitude, fulfilment.
I had long wavy hair, flowers in it. I was barefoot on the beach in a long linen dress. I was laughing, happy. Tan, for my standards, hahaha.
I was surrounded by a community—even kids, not mine, I don't think. Just a village of love and appreciation.
In comparing those two lives, I was less stressed. I loved what I did each day.
I don't think I was crawling up a corporate ladder anymore.
I no longer associated my self-worth with material possessions.
So that was my reflection from Module 1 of the Health Coach training program.
So it was already bubbling up in my unconscious.
And as you can imagine, you know, weekly times twenty of those reflections.
At some point I realized that what I was doing in my day-to-day life was no longer making me happy.
It was not my purpose. It was not what I was meant to do. It was draining me. It was killing me. It was just everything that I was not supposed to be doing.
And so over time, one step at a time, I started to reflect on, well, where to? What is the right next step? And everything guided me towards this industry. You know, health, well-being, personal development, helping other people, making the world a healthier and happier place.
And I made some really tough choices. I pulled back on my corporate dreams. Like, there was a point where I was earmarked to move to Canada, or like I was earmarked for this promotion, and I said no to both of those things. And it all blew up in my face. And then people looked at me differently. And the leadership team, you know, I was kind of like dead to them.
And back to that analogy of me being a Scorpio, it was really—it really felt like a death of my old self. Death of that high achiever, well-respected corporate Vic. And yet there was still a part of me that was this high achiever, well-respected corporate Vic. And a new version was emerging.
The version that went back to uni to pursue a postgraduate degree in nutrition. The version that had the courage to build her business and bring it into the world from the ground up as a health coach. The version that led people through subconscious healing sessions and opened the pathways to their emotional awareness.
It was the version of me that finally gave myself permission to sign up for a retreat—a dream that I had for such a long time. And no kidding, I was a different person after that retreat. It was like a permission slip to step into that version of myself that I read out to you just a little bit ago.
And from there, really, the path just kind of unfolded quite naturally. I took part in a yoga teacher training and, like, multiple trainings since then. And I’ve slowly been in this liminal space, you know, of transitioning out of the corporate world, which is where I now work only part time. I took a step back. I took a 40% pay cut. I’m the nobody now and that’s fine. It’s okay with me.
And at the same time I’m, like, here creating this new version of me every single day that feels so much more fulfilled and in alignment with what I do. And all tying it back into being in resonance.
I was living in the sympathetic nervous system state for so long. I was such a bitch to myself. I was incredibly mean to myself. I wasn’t taking care of my body, my mind, my emotions, or my spirit. And just with little doable steps, little doable things, I started to find my way into resonance.
And do I have it all figured out? Nope. Does life still keep lifing? Yep. And am I more capable and able to navigate that journey? Oh yes. And this is what you’ll get in this space.
I’m really conscious that today’s episode was pretty heavy, and it actually dove much more into depth and detail of my story than I originally intended. So it feels right to just kind of leave it there for now. And I will continue exploring the things that help me navigate into resonance. I continue to explore them. I’ll share with you as I’m experiencing them.
As we speak, there’s still so much more that happened between that moment of awareness and awakening, so to speak, and today. So you’re in for quite a ride. Thank you for hearing me and for receiving this message. I know that some of it may have been a little bit heavy. And thank you for your commitment to yourself, because if you’re still listening to this, there’s some inkling that resonates with you. There’s something there that is calling you to this work. And whatever that may be, I look forward to exploring that together.
And so for now, as we conclude today’s episode, I would just love to invite you to contemplate your story in your life and whether there have been little moments of shaking things up. Maybe life’s been giving you little whispers, or maybe sometimes even screams like it was in my case, to take a moment and stop what you’re doing and reflect on whether you’re still in alignment with yourself, in resonance with yourself.
And just take it one step at a time. That’s all we can do. So that’s all for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. I feel quite nervous and vulnerable to have shared all this and to be putting it out in the world. But I trust that you will receive it with grace, and you will hold my vulnerability with respect. And I wish you a beautiful day. Bye for now.
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