Walk & Talk

I’m glad you’re here.

 

I now live in Melbourne, but I'm originally from Europe. Although I grew up in Hungary, when I turned twenty-one, I started moving around. I've lived, studied, and worked all over the globe, including at open sea, onboard a cruise ship that carried four thousand passengers and a thousand crewmembers from ninety-five different nationalities, and part of my job as an HR Manager there was taking care of them.

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Moving around so much kept shaping my view of the world and the people in it. Living in New York City is profoundly different from life in Prague or Berlin, or even London despite its perceived similarity to New York. Working with a Dutch person who grew up in a townhouse by the canal in Amsterdam is vastly different from working with someone who spent most of their life in a small town in the mountains of Peru, a fishing village in Eritrea, or the buzzing capital of India. And although every person in each of these countries has their own specific set of challenges and their unique views of the world, what I've found is that, at our core, we are all the same.

 

We all want the same things, and we all struggle with the same things. Expressing emotions, understanding and communicating our needs, human connection. We are all scared of the same things, too: losing loved ones, getting ill, not finding love, finding love but screwing it up, being alone, not being good enough. We all just want to be seen and feel that we belong.
We want to be loved and to be accepted for who we are without being judged. We want to feel heard and valued and feel that we matter.

 

And this is why I started Walk Therapy.

 

Whether I was training people on communication skills, coaching managers on how to bring out the best in their teams, mentoring new employees, or taking groups of people across Europe and introducing them to history and culture, my focus and priority were always one thing: the person. 

 

In a world, where almost anything is reachable in an instant, where many of us are overstretched, overstimulated, often overworked, juggling more than we can handle, and often need to pretend that it's all OK, where technology gives us ways to be in contact with each other easier than ever, we are more anxious, disconnected, and lonelier than we've ever been. 

 

So I wanted to create space for all of us (you!) where we can all take a breather. Where you can drop the mask you're forced to wear sometimes and be your most authentic self. Where, if you need to, you can pour your heart out or just stay in comfortable silence without being judged, and where nobody will tell you that you should focus on the positive or look at the bright side of things.

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Because things are not always bright, and that's OK. And we're allowed to acknowledge that and be hurt because of it. I'm not here to "fix" you or make your problems go away, but I'm here to listen and support you the way it works for you.

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Come, let's go for a walk, and talk.