The story of Happ-Inese
I love stories and I believe that we all bring an exciting and unique story with us. In coaching we shape, create and change our life-stories too, so I wanted to share mine as a little introduction to myself.
Today I call myself a Happiness Coach… but trust me… there is much more behind the Happiness surface…
My Happiness story goes back to year 2015 when I started a blog about Happiness (and hooray – it has reborn!)
Back then I was not going through the best time of my life. Happiness seemed like a good answer to all my problems.
I had no big clue of what True Happiness actually was. I was exploring… feeling happy at times and miserable again when happy moments were gone. I looked a lot outside at what made people happy.
After understanding myself better, “failing” some decent jobs and moving countries, working with several coaches, learning about Science of wellbeing and practical psychology, I realized that all I had to do is to look more inside and ask myself – what is happiness to me?
I discovered that the Authentic Happiness lies within ourselves. It is a combination of our needs and values met, our identity and self-worth, and our vision of future backed with faith and action.
In other words – Happiness is in our own hands. Today I have much more clarity on what happiness, fulfilment, balance and purpose mean to me. And to be honest – I am still working on that a lot! 🙂
Soon after that, I explored the many connections our mind, body, emotions and spirit have to our daily wellbeing and I decided to share this knowledge with other people. To teach them about the Art of Living and daily Happiness.
For me Happiness means truly being myself (Happ-iness – there is almost my name in it!), as well as inspiring and helping others to improve their lives and come closer to their true happy selves.
Professional history
I am a certified Integrative Life Coach by Integrative Wellness Academy (IWA, 2021), as well as certified Life Coaching, Mindfulness and Modern Applied Psychology practitioner by Achology (Academy of Modern Applied Psychology). As I am passionate about stories, I’ve also accomplished a Life-story coaching training to help you shape and re-write the the story you tell to yourself about your life.
I have also been recognized as one of the Top Happiness Coaches by Coach Foundation.
I hold a degree in Communications and have worked in Human Resources / Talent acquisition within start-ups. Honestly, I am not that passionate about labels and titles. What matters to me the most is how we can grow in our own alignment and bring the best to this world with our talent and ambition.
I truly believe in life-long learning, non-formal education and the resources we have within us to learn and grow, so I never stop exploring the fields I am truly passionate about.
Hobbies
I love to travel, discover new places, go for hikes, do yoga, write, cuddle cats (I love cats!!!) and to have flowers and nature around me.
On top of that I truly love art. One of my expressions of art is creating paintings and illustrations. Recently I started to create small illustrations and word-plays on personal growth topics, you can find then on my Instagram.
I am always happy to connect with like-minded people and expand my network. I am currently based in Spain, close to Barcelona and originally from Riga, Latvia that I always call my home.
Happy to meet you in my story!
With Love,
Inese
