I arrived in the United States at ten without speaking a word of English, and drawing became the only way I had to say what was happening inside me. That's how I came to study art, and how, in 2015, I founded The Artidote, a space to feel and heal through art that grew into a community of more than 4 million people. For most of that time I stayed anonymous behind it, reading messages from people around the world in the hardest moments of their lives, and seeing, more than once, that community help save a life, a story international news covered.

What almost nobody knew was that I was living with social anxiety, childhood wounds and limiting beliefs of my own, no matter how much I understood about healing. Everything changed the day a friend introduced me to meditation and, for the first time in my life, my mind became still. I went deep into the study of meditation, breath and consciousness, and I discovered what became the heart of my work: the mind cannot change what the body still feels unsafe about, and once the body feels safe, the life you want stops feeling so far away.

Since then I've devoted myself to teaching this, working directly with over 10,000 people through 1:1 coaching and workshops, and speaking on stages in Bulgaria, Dubai, India, Germany, Malta, United States, Italy, Kosovo, Albania, Mexico and Cyprus, including TEDx.