About Simone

Hello dear,

I am happy to see you here.

My Name is Simone Silvia Margarete Furtwängler Buteweg when I take the women that I come from with me into my name.

I teach body-based trauma work and Emotional Literacy to bridge the gap between self-awareness and embodied self trust that allows you to actually LIVE as who you are underneath layers of trauma, social conditionings and other people's expectations of you.

My work integrates talk-based therapeutic approaches with body-based trauma work to serve you on all levels of your being: body, mind and soul.

At the centre of my work is the belief that if we want to live in a world that is less violent and extractive we need to heal the wound of separation we learned and inherited. The separation from ourselves and through that to others and the natural world. By starting to remember who you are, you get to create nurturing, challenging and reciprocal relationships and find a sense of connection and belonging with nature that is natural to us humans.

My path to doing this work started with my own journey. Growing up as an over-thinking people pleaser with depression and PTSD led me to having psychosomatic bodily symptoms, unhealthy relationships without boundaries and a life that was built on pleasing others and the stories I told myself about who I was.

When classic therapy stopped helping me after a few months I started doing nervous system work and body-based trauma work. This shifted my whole life and I was able to leave all bodily symptoms behind, learn how to actually feel and express my grief and anger, set boundaries and prioritize my needs before others. I left my super-selective, high-achieveing study program and my job at a major development bank, and started an apprenticeship in body-based trauma work, founded my own business and decided to leave my home country to travel the world.

I know what it feels like to be deeply at home in myself, to trust myself with every cell of my body, to feel fully alive, and to live a life I consciously chose instead of one shaped by fear or survival. I no longer hide my truest, most whimsical, expansive, and successful self. Supporting my clients in finding that same sense of safety, self-trust, and freedom is at the heart of my work.

I was exactly where you are now about 3 years ago.

I was SO good at analysing myself and I was incredibly self-aware and I knew why I reacted the way I did. I could analyse every emotion, every relationship and every trigger.

But none of that changed the way I felt.

The people pleasing, stress-symptoms, the adapting to others and anticipating everyone’s needs was still there.

I had gotten so good at adapting and questioning myself at every turn and decision that it felt like a fucking revolution to notice how I slowly grew out of that.

I didn’t need to ask for validation of my point of view on every conversation anymore because I deep down didn’t trust my own perception.

I didn’t need to rehearse every slightly difficult conversation hours before, feeling stressed, only to not voice what I wanted to say and going home, angry at myself.

Sometimes I have to pinch myself because it seems like a lifetime ago that I felt like that.

And it will forever the thing I am most proud of:

I dedicated myself to changing my life so it matched the person I deep down knew I actually was, so it didn’t keep on feeling like I was keeping myself small, so I finally could feel the aliveness and fucking MAGIC of life that slumbered in me.

So if that’s where you are now: I understand you because I’ve been there and you don’t have to figure the next steps out alone.

I invite you to start dedicating yourself to remembering who you are.

I offer you the space and know how and safety to take this step.