Expat

Choose your future

Everyone has his or her own unique story. Everyone has their own difficult problems to solve. I believe that the best thing to do, is to confront the problem, set a clear goal for the future and to make a plan on how to achieve it.

It is not easy to figure out what goal to strive for and how to achieve it. It comes down to the question: Do you want to be guided by what has been or wat can be?

The answer should be of course: what can be! You can ask yourself:

Who am I, what do I want, and how can I achieve that?

As a coach I help expats work through these questions. My areas of expertise are:

• Lifecoaching
• Career coaching
• Stress and burn-out coaching

What do you want?

When we start working together, YOU are at the center. My approach is to explore what you need in order to grow and through that, find answers to who you are, what you want, and how to get there.

I want you to feel the freedom with me to be exactly who you are and to truly work from that place. To accept yourself and meet yourself with compassion. To discover the strengths you carry and how to use them even more fully. The result? You’ll uncover who you want to be now, stand more firmly in yourself, feel prouder of who you are, and move in directions you may never have expected.

The steps you’ve taken in the past have brought you to where you are today. There’s something deeply valuable in discovering which steps you can take now for your future.

I’ll walk alongside you as a conversation partner on that path.

About me

My name is Marian van de Berg and I am a coach. Through my own experiences, I want to help others in reaching their potential by daring them to change their lives. Daring could sound too challenging, but if you can feel what a small step forward can already mean for you then the challenge doesn’t feel that scary. It can just show you what potentials you have and do not use. What opportunities you miss out, etc. If you know who you really are, you can live your best life.

Let me tell a little bit about myself to show you the path I went through to reach my destination and how I can help you reach yours.

As a mother of three I was always used to combine work and family. Taking care of my family was my first priority, while also making time for both a job and a personal life. A difficult, but rewarding balancing act. In 2013, we moved as a family to the United States and there I was an expat, where we lived for a number of years.  It was also in this period that my relationship of 30 years came to an end. It was a life-changing moment. In this journey, I had to make tough decisions, rebalance my life and shape my own future. I decided on a destination for myself and started walking my own path. This path has shown me who I am and made me more self-aware.

It has resulted in a different career path and now I can say that I am very happy with who I have become.

“Dare to change your course” is a quote I live by. I would love to give you that experience too.

A tad more personal

I’m happiest when I’m surrounded by people: chatting with friends, being there for each other, cooking together or enjoying a nice meal out. I can also happily binge Scandinavian crime series, go to the cinema, and attend concerts across all kinds of genres.

At home, you’ll often find me in the garden, where I love to spend time and recharge. And when the sun is out, nothing makes me happier than having a cup of coffee in the morning light: it gives me so much energy. Want to recommend me a book? I’m especially fond of historical novels, thrillers, and psychological fiction.

Humor is essential in my life; I love sharing a good laugh and not taking life too seriously.

And as the cherry on top, I’ve recently stepped into a very special new role: grandmother to two beautiful granddaughters.