Becoming Nobody

Princess Gaia
4 min readNov 30, 2022

No shape, no purpose, no name — I am

A while ago I realized, that I was someone different from who I meant to be at first, when I — and this was long before I was finally born here — had decided to become human on this place called Earth.

This moment of realization, I suddenly became aware, that I defined my human ego or this human self by the notion of who I was and what I did; meaning by accomplishments, by the number of friends, by likes, by certificates or by status — by the definition of me from the outside, so to say. And it struck me hard, that I had forgotten about the playful, joyous, magical, beautiful, and loving self from within me.

This was the moment, when I decided to leave the stage as Princess Gaia, I also chose to walk away from my role as Community Manager of the EUSG and from the author and storyteller I was. I left facebook and social media for a while. And some time later I also stepped back from my role as the well-known therapist and body whisperer of Berlin.

In short, I chose to shift from a somebody with a clear understanding of who I was into a nobody, whose only reason for being alive is experiencing life with all its playfulness, joy, magic, beauty and love.

This transformation turned out to be the most beautiful thing that I could ever have wished for. My shape, my purpose, my name, ……

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Princess Gaia

Fall in love with our planet and enjoy the writings of a storytelling therapist — www.julia-hayden.de (aka Princess Gaia - www.princess-gaia.com).