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In this episode I interview Katrin Zita, coach and life coach. Among other things, we talk about:
Katrin has been a coach for gifted and highly sensitive people for over 10 years. She is a social and life counselor and systemic constellator (in my coaching sessions I also work on old family issues...). Before that, she worked in the media industry and as a travel journalist and has written a total of 4 great books, all of which have become bestsellers.
Katrin has crossed my path online from time to time and I was particularly fascinated by the title of her book "The Art of Traveling Alone and Arriving at Yourself". Because I have also traveled alone for 8 months, across Australia and Southeast Asia. That was a very horizon-expanding experience and I was curious to hear what Katrin had to say about it.
I believe that the topic of being alone and spending time with yourself is an extremely important one, especially in times when we might not be feeling so well. If you have physical illnesses, this is often a warning sign that you are no longer living your truth and Katrin speaks beautifully in this interview about how traveling alone can bring you back into contact with yourself.
We're not necessarily talking about gifted people who stand out as we know them from films and television, but Katrin mainly accompanies people in their everyday lives who are often offended by their giftedness, for example in their usual profession. For example, they have the ability to foresee projects much further ahead than others. As a result, they may be seen as disruptive factors because they draw attention to potential problems. This is why good communication within the organization, but also with yourself, is important.
It affects many more people than those affected think. High sensitivity often manifests itself by reacting very intensely to environmental influences, smells, fast editing of films, noise. An open-plan office, for example, is very often too much for such people and can quickly lead to them describing the world as "too much" for them. However, being highly sensitive also means having a feel for the atmosphere of a room, for moods and being able to read between the lines. This can also lead to stress, being aware of too much of the world as it really is.
You get exhausted more quickly than others, but you also draw a lot of strength from things you enjoy doing, making music, painting, having profound conversations, etc.
It is helpful to find your own rhythm and to be proactive and only get involved in the right things. situations that are good for you.
Katrin was originally a civil engineer, as her father had an architecture firm. She really enjoyed the profession, but at some point she found it too technical.
She then studied journalism and communication sciences, worked as a journalist and then turned to personal development and is now a coach for the highly gifted and highly sensitive.
Today, she helps people to recognize their life purpose and find their calling, use their gifts and recognize the meaning of their lives.
The trigger to travel alone was that Katrin wasn't feeling well and went on a fasting cure. She got in touch with herself so well that from then on she often traveled alone.
As a result, she was repeatedly asked how she did it when she traveled alone.
Many people mistakenly see traveling alone as a lonely affair. But Katrin sees it more as a path to clarity, because the conversation starts with yourself. And that often brings up things that have not yet been processed.
If you use this and go into it to find your own truth, then a kind of awakening follows. It's a relief because you have clarified something for yourself.
Traveling alone also helps a lot in finding your own rhythm.
Katrin herself is also experiencing how important this personal rhythm is. This is because there has been a big change in her personal life. Having previously lived alone in two cities, Berlin and Vienna, she is now married and a bonus mom, so now lives a family life, and realizes that it is particularly important to keep your own islands in your own rhythm.
People who have a very deep longing to be at the center of things themselves often criticize others for doing just that. It shouldn't be wrong to be allowed to focus on yourself.
It's like flying, where we should look after ourselves first and put on the oxygen mask before helping others. Only when we are in our own strength can we be of help to others.
She became a non-smoker on one trip. Although she had repeatedly tried to quit beforehand. She simply left smoking behind and came back to Vienna as the new Katrin.
Traveling can help you leave bad habits behind.
It helps to recognize rituals, what are the triggers that make me reach for something and how can I find a new way / a new ritual and bring it into my life.
When do we reach for food, for example, are often unconscious mechanisms.
Katrin's tool of choice is language. She is a good listener. And she likes to draw pictures and sketches so that you have a picture of what happened and how things are going. She is also a systemic constellator and likes to set up all situations to make them visible.
We often don't see enough of our own talents and have too little self-confidence and self-awareness. Katrin helps people to see themselves, to recognize themselves. We not everyone is born and is happy with themselves. And Katrin sees this as our task in life, to recognize who we are and to recognize contentment, inner peace, and to bring it into our lives.
And so we come full circle to the topic of gut happiness, because in order to look after your health and take good care of yourself in the long term, it is essential to look at yourself as you are and to take yourself seriously enough.
And just as Katrin has done in her life by finding more about herself and her path in life through travel, but then also taking her health into account by quitting smoking, going on a sugar detox and becoming a vegetarian, you can also do it the other way round. Because:
You can also find your self-worth and strength through your diet and then be ready and have the energy to make changes in other areas of your life, such as your job, relationships and so on.
Katrin used to draw blueprints as an engineer, but now she works with her clients to sketch out their life plans!
She has also created an online course in which every participant can sketch out their life plan. Because it is important to Katrin that you have something visible in your hands afterwards. Something that you have created yourself, that has something to do with you. In the course, Katrin accompanies the participants for 6 months in order to have the result in her hands at the end: Who am I and what do I really want.
Perhaps the interview with Katrin has encouraged you to embark on a journey to yourself and look a little more closely at your strengths, talents and inclinations.
Her story has definitely inspired me to go on a journey on my own again!
Next week, as always on Tuesdays, there will be the next Darmglück episode. Have you actually subscribed to my podcast? Someone complained to me this weekend that they didn't get any more episodes after the first 3. But you only get the episodes automatically if you subscribe to the podcast. You can do this on iTunes, for example, if you have an iPhone, or on podcast apps such as Google Podcast or Podcast Addict.
Now I recommend that you subscribe to the podcast so that you don't miss an episode, and if you like what you hear, then I really appreciate a review on iTunes or Apple Podcast. Because those reviews also help other people find the podcast so we can spread the knowledge about gut and health more.
In this episode I interview Katrin Zita, coach and life coach. Among other things, we talk about:
- How to define "highly gifted" and "highly sensitive"
- What traveling alone did to Katrin and why she wrote a book about it
- Why being alone can help you personally
- Why a partnership and children are not an argument against being alone
- Isn't it selfish to travel alone when you have a family?
- How Katrin became a non-smoker through traveling and how you can change habits in general
- What can we learn from crises in our lives and are crises perhaps even a good thing?
Katrin has been a coach for gifted and highly sensitive people for over 10 years. She is a social and life counselor and systemic constellator (in my coaching sessions I also work on old family issues...). Before that, she worked in the media industry and as a travel journalist and has written a total of 4 great books, all of which have become bestsellers.
Katrin has crossed my path online from time to time and I was particularly fascinated by the title of her book "The Art of Traveling Alone and Arriving at Yourself". Because I have also traveled alone for 8 months, across Australia and Southeast Asia. That was a very horizon-expanding experience and I was curious to hear what Katrin had to say about it.
I believe that the topic of being alone and spending time with yourself is an extremely important one, especially in times when we might not be feeling so well. If you have physical illnesses, this is often a warning sign that you are no longer living your truth and Katrin speaks beautifully in this interview about how traveling alone can bring you back into contact with yourself.
What distinguishes highly gifted people?
We're not necessarily talking about gifted people who stand out as we know them from films and television, but Katrin mainly accompanies people in their everyday lives who are often offended by their giftedness, for example in their usual profession. For example, they have the ability to foresee projects much further ahead than others. As a result, they may be seen as disruptive factors because they draw attention to potential problems. This is why good communication within the organization, but also with yourself, is important.
How would Katrin describe highly sensitive people
It affects many more people than those affected think. High sensitivity often manifests itself by reacting very intensely to environmental influences, smells, fast editing of films, noise. An open-plan office, for example, is very often too much for such people and can quickly lead to them describing the world as "too much" for them. However, being highly sensitive also means having a feel for the atmosphere of a room, for moods and being able to read between the lines. This can also lead to stress, being aware of too much of the world as it really is.
You get exhausted more quickly than others, but you also draw a lot of strength from things you enjoy doing, making music, painting, having profound conversations, etc.
It is helpful to find your own rhythm and to be proactive and only get involved in the right things. situations that are good for you.
Katrin has an eventful CV
Katrin was originally a civil engineer, as her father had an architecture firm. She really enjoyed the profession, but at some point she found it too technical.
She then studied journalism and communication sciences, worked as a journalist and then turned to personal development and is now a coach for the highly gifted and highly sensitive.
Today, she helps people to recognize their life purpose and find their calling, use their gifts and recognize the meaning of their lives.
How did Katrin come to write her book "The art of traveling alone and finding yourself"?
The trigger to travel alone was that Katrin wasn't feeling well and went on a fasting cure. She got in touch with herself so well that from then on she often traveled alone.
As a result, she was repeatedly asked how she did it when she traveled alone.
Many people mistakenly see traveling alone as a lonely affair. But Katrin sees it more as a path to clarity, because the conversation starts with yourself. And that often brings up things that have not yet been processed.
If you use this and go into it to find your own truth, then a kind of awakening follows. It's a relief because you have clarified something for yourself.
Traveling alone also helps a lot in finding your own rhythm.
Katrin herself is also experiencing how important this personal rhythm is. This is because there has been a big change in her personal life. Having previously lived alone in two cities, Berlin and Vienna, she is now married and a bonus mom, so now lives a family life, and realizes that it is particularly important to keep your own islands in your own rhythm.
Isn't it selfish to put yourself at the center so much?
People who have a very deep longing to be at the center of things themselves often criticize others for doing just that. It shouldn't be wrong to be allowed to focus on yourself.
It's like flying, where we should look after ourselves first and put on the oxygen mask before helping others. Only when we are in our own strength can we be of help to others.
What effects did traveling alone have on Katrin's health?
She became a non-smoker on one trip. Although she had repeatedly tried to quit beforehand. She simply left smoking behind and came back to Vienna as the new Katrin.
Traveling can help you leave bad habits behind.
How do you change habits and unconscious patterns?
It helps to recognize rituals, what are the triggers that make me reach for something and how can I find a new way / a new ritual and bring it into my life.
When do we reach for food, for example, are often unconscious mechanisms.
Katrin's tool of choice is language. She is a good listener. And she likes to draw pictures and sketches so that you have a picture of what happened and how things are going. She is also a systemic constellator and likes to set up all situations to make them visible.
The way we see ourselves
We often don't see enough of our own talents and have too little self-confidence and self-awareness. Katrin helps people to see themselves, to recognize themselves. We not everyone is born and is happy with themselves. And Katrin sees this as our task in life, to recognize who we are and to recognize contentment, inner peace, and to bring it into our lives.
And so we come full circle to the topic of gut happiness, because in order to look after your health and take good care of yourself in the long term, it is essential to look at yourself as you are and to take yourself seriously enough.
And just as Katrin has done in her life by finding more about herself and her path in life through travel, but then also taking her health into account by quitting smoking, going on a sugar detox and becoming a vegetarian, you can also do it the other way round. Because:
You can also find your self-worth and strength through your diet and then be ready and have the energy to make changes in other areas of your life, such as your job, relationships and so on.
About Katrin Zita's work
Katrin used to draw blueprints as an engineer, but now she works with her clients to sketch out their life plans!
She has also created an online course in which every participant can sketch out their life plan. Because it is important to Katrin that you have something visible in your hands afterwards. Something that you have created yourself, that has something to do with you. In the course, Katrin accompanies the participants for 6 months in order to have the result in her hands at the end: Who am I and what do I really want.
Perhaps the interview with Katrin has encouraged you to embark on a journey to yourself and look a little more closely at your strengths, talents and inclinations.
Her story has definitely inspired me to go on a journey on my own again!
Next week, as always on Tuesdays, there will be the next Darmglück episode. Have you actually subscribed to my podcast? Someone complained to me this weekend that they didn't get any more episodes after the first 3. But you only get the episodes automatically if you subscribe to the podcast. You can do this on iTunes, for example, if you have an iPhone, or on podcast apps such as Google Podcast or Podcast Addict.
Now I recommend that you subscribe to the podcast so that you don't miss an episode, and if you like what you hear, then I really appreciate a review on iTunes or Apple Podcast. Because those reviews also help other people find the podcast so we can spread the knowledge about gut and health more.
