About me

Koen Thurlings






Holistic Therapist & Breathwork coach

Welcome
My name is Koen Thurlings.
From a young age, I struggled with the question of who I am, where I belong, and what my purpose in life was. I searched for answers, only to lose myself deeper and deeper.

My journey took me through many worlds, from punk rocker to gabber, from extremes to emptiness. I found brotherhood, but never a true home. I tried to fill the emptiness inside me with alcohol and drugs. With anger and hate, I looked at the world and the people around me.

I could not feel love for others, let alone for myself.

At my breaking point, I knew things had to change. Otherwise, I would never climb out of the hole I was in. I called in sick from school and detoxed from my drug addiction at home. This marked the beginning of a long path full of falling and rising again. I overcame one monster, only to find another waiting in its place. Alcohol and drugs belonged to the past, yet I was far from healed.

It wasn’t until I had tried everything to gain control over life that I realized the answers were not outside me. Not in alcohol or drugs, not in numbing, not even in spirituality, but in daring to look within.

There, in my deepest pain, I discovered something greater than myself.

I learned that healing does not come from the outside, but from connecting with who you truly are, and from accepting that you are enough exactly as you are.

I didn’t need to become something new; I only needed to remember who I had always been.

Today, I guide people through therapy and breathwork, not only from experience, but also from a solid foundation of study and deepening in trauma, the nervous system, and holistic methods.

Because I don’t just know how to help. I know what it feels like to be found.

"He leaves the ninety-nine and goes in search of the one lost sheep until he finds it." (Luke 15:4)

Sometimes, that one lost sheep… is the part of ourselves we once lost.
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