The Full Story

About me

My interest in health, psychology, and human behaviour began long before I chose a career path.

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As a child, I spent hours reading my father's books and magazines about herbs, nature, and traditional approaches to wellbeing. I was fascinated by the human body, by the way nature seemed to offer solutions for so many things, and by the idea that people had been observing patterns in health for centuries, often long before science could explain them.

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That curiosity eventually led me towards formal education. I completed a Bachelor's degree in Public Health at SWPS University in Warsaw and later earned a Master's degree in Psychology of Business. While those studies gave me a deeper understanding of health, behaviour, and human performance, I chose a different professional path and spent the next two decades building an international career in the corporate world.

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I loved the challenge, the pace, the ambition, and the opportunity to grow. Over the years, I progressed into senior leadership positions, managed large teams and complex projects, and built a career I am genuinely proud of. It also gave me a front-row seat to something that fascinates me today: the extraordinary capacity women have to keep going. To perform, deliver, adapt, carry responsibility. And to look capable even when they are exhausted.

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For a long time, I thought the tension I carried was simply part of who I was. That my baseline was naturally higher than other people's.

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Like many women, I didn't realise how much of my life was being shaped by unconscious patterns of performing, protecting, anticipating, and bracing. Patterns that helped me succeed professionally but also kept my body in a constant state of effort.

Over time, that way of living came with a price.

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Years of overriding signals, pushing through stress, and treating recovery as something I would get around to later eventually caught up with me. What began as chronic tension developed into physical symptoms and pain that could no longer be ignored. At one point, my body became so overwhelmed that even walking was difficult. That experience forced me to stop in a way that motivation, discipline, and willpower never could.

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For the first time, I became less interested in how to perform better and more interested in understanding what my body had been trying to tell me all along.

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That question led me into a much deeper exploration of the nervous system, chronic stress, pain science, fascia, somatic practices, and the unique ways women experience stress and recovery. I completed further training in neuroscience-based behavioural change methodologies, but more importantly, I began connecting the science with my own experience.

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The more I learned, the more I realised that wellbeing cannot be understood through mindset alone. The body is not simply carrying out instructions from the brain. It is constantly collecting information, adapting, protecting, compensating, and communicating. And while many of us spend years gaining insight into our thoughts, behaviours, and past experiences, that understanding does not automatically change the patterns held in the body. We can know exactly why we react the way we do and still find ourselves carrying the same tension, stress, and protective responses.

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What fascinates me most today is how much we still don't fully understand, particularly when it comes to women. Female physiology is extraordinarily complex. Unlike men, whose hormonal patterns largely follow a twenty-four-hour rhythm, women move through an entire monthly cycle that influences energy, mood, recovery, cognition, sleep, stress resilience, and countless other processes. This additional layer of complexity means that many questions about women's health remain far less straightforward than we would like them to be. Perhaps that is why I have always felt comfortable standing somewhere between evidence and curiosity.

I value science and research deeply, but I also believe there is wisdom in observation. Human beings have spent thousands of years paying attention to the body, and while not every tradition withstands scientific scrutiny, many observations deserve curiosity rather than dismissal.

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Unbraced Women was born from the intersection of those experiences.

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It is a space where I share what I continue to learn about the nervous system, chronic tension, stress, recovery, fascia, somatic approaches, embodiment, and the realities of being a woman in a world that often rewards achievement, self-sacrifice, and constant performance.

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Not because I think I already have all the answers, but because my own body eventually taught me the importance of asking better questions.​