About me

Welcome, and nice to meet you!

Hi, I'm Lucia Engel, Speaker & Storyteller, with a background in drama therapy and creative therapeutic work.

I help people rewrite their stories, soften the shrinking and share their story from a safe place in their body so they'll light up the room.

We use storytelling - one of humanity's oldest arts of connection to align your voice to your Soul Spark. So it lands with truth, depth and impact.

I always believed life is beautiful and the base should feel safe and abundant.

I love open, expansive landscapes, different cultures, people, good food, art, stories, conversations, and everything that captures life's soul.

I had the blessing to have had many of these kinds of experiences. And still am.

But it hasn't always been like this. I felt depressed in my teens, tried lots of therapy,  but couldn't grab a good flow. I moved at age twenty-six to the beautiful country of Guatemala, made major life changes and bloomed in a way i could never imagine.

I had several creative and communal businesses where creativity was high, as also business success.

But at the same time an undercurrent of unhealthy and unsafe relationships were happening. I kept asking myself why I stayed, and how to get out.

Untill one Sunday morning, my daughter was just ten years old. She had stopped playing weeks ago. Refused to see her friends. As I stepped into her darkened room, I called her name 'Yaiza?' When she turned, it hit me like lightning; the spark in her eyes had gone out! My breath stopped, my thoughts crashed all at once against a wall in my head and I thought; 'What have I done?!'

In that moment I made a life-changing decision. I looked at her, caressed her hair softly and said; 'don't worry, baby. Mommy is going to make this right again!'

I began turning my life upside down, looking under every stone and becoming willing to feel what I had spent years avoiding.

I learned emotions are signposts. They either send you home, or astray.

I ended the relationship.

I had to find safety in myself first.

And while I was walking this path I looked to the right. There was my daughter following my footsteps.

The spark in her eyes slowly returned.

 And not only that. I noticed using stories in my workshops and therapies opened up space, possibility and hope for others to follow.

The story I once was so ashamed for

now lights up dark moments for others.

Because in every classroom

In every workspace

With every family

With any child

There are stories waiting for somewhere safe to land.
Stories we swallowed.
Stories we learned to shrink around.
Stories that are asking for new words.

And when we finally give those stories room to breathe, something changes.

We change.
Our voice becomes clearer.
Our relationships become more honest.
And what once kept us small can become the very thing that lights the way for someone else.

That is why I do this work.

To create spaces where people feel safe enough to soften, brave enough to speak, and free enough to let their spark be seen.

Many sparks together will light up the fire that changes the world into something better than how we found it.