About me
Welcome, and nice to meet you! Hi, I'm Lucia Engel, Embodied Speaking & Storytelling Guide, with a background in drama therapy and creative embodied therapeutic work.
I help people who used to shrink and hide their emotional world to speak and share their story from a safe place in their body and understand and express what they feel through storytelling - so their Voice alligns to their Soul Spark, lands with truth, depth and impact, and becomes a powerful instrument for connection.
I always believed life is beautiful and should be good and abundant. I love open, expansive landscapes, different cultures, people, good food, art, stories, conversations, and everything that captures life's soul. When 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 and bloomed in a way i could never imagine. After fifteen years I moved back to Holland for my daughter's studies and discovered Guatemala and its nature is actually inside my body, brain and voice. I always liked to create what I once missed. Once this was freedom, nature and abundance. This time I find freedom and abundance in voice, expression and connection.
My personal Journey
I grew up in a small, charming village in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands: where cows grazed slowly in wide green fields, and the air often carried the distant, trembling sound of military airplanes practicing overhead.
There was a softness in the land… but a restlessness in the atmosphere. Inside my house parents were caring and hardworking. But there was one problem that change my whole life: we didn't do emotions.
Inside our home, there was always a kind of tension.
Emotions moved through the space like bees circling a honey pot they could never quite find: buzzing, searching, unsettled.
You could feel them in the air, but they were rarely named, rarely held.
My parents eventually divorced.
But strangely, nothing really changed.
The emotional undercurrent stayed the same: unspoken, undefined.
So when I grew up, and followed the same patterns in relationships, saw how my young daughter was affected by it when she got depressed. I saw my own trauma being transmitted.
When my daughter turned ten and I saw her sparkles eyes, I felt powerless and a deep panic. But I wouldn't be myself to dive deep, do the work and find her spark again.
I discovered it had to go through my own Soul Spark. Self-love became my biggest mission.
What makes me 'Me'
As a good therapist, I have a big, safe, warm heart.
And I’ve lived what I teach.
But maybe what makes me me…
is that I don’t just understand complex trauma and the ways we protect ourselves: I translate them.
Into images.
Into stories.
Into something you can actually feel and recognize.
Because so much of what we carry is hard to grasp in words alone.
As I did with my clients in jail, and in my groupwork online, I work with the whole of you.
Your likes
Your dislikes
Your emotions
Your nervous system
Your body
Your story
Your beliefs
Your way of expressing
Not to fix you, but to make visible what has been living inside you all along.
Always gently.
Sometimes with a bit of humor.
Often in a way that suddenly makes you go: oh… that’s me.
My ex-clients said: "I'm happy I'm in jail, because now I have therapy with you'. or: "I felt safe with you, and I don't remember feeling this", "I thought therapy was dumm, but now I tell everybody how much this helps, because of us working together"
My work didn’t come from a book.
It grew through working with my clients.
And also… through my own path.
From being disconnected from my body,
to slowly, carefully finding my way back.
Into feeling.
Into balance.
Into a life that feels more like mine.
I am proud of my life and outer accomplishments. But mostly I am because of how my emotional landscape is blooming through its seasons.
Sometimes I go on a deep adventure.
Into what I sometimes call the underworld of the psyche.
And I’ve come back: again and again.
So when you meet parts of yourself that feel confusing, intense, or hidden…
you won’t be alone there.
I care deeply about doing this work in a way that feels safe, real, and human.
To me, this isn’t just personal growth.
It’s how we gently change the world: from the inside out.
When we work together, we meet in warmth.
In a safe connection.
Without forcing. Without rushing.
We will discover your colors, your stories, your inner language: we make visible what is most true, most alive, and often most loving in you.
And sometimes… we might even laugh a little along the way.
Discover your Soul Spark Voice in "Voice Lab"
"When you feel safe within yourself, your voice becomes the bridge that brings life to you ánd others"
Remember. Reconnect. Rise.
into your Soul Spark Voice
A trauma-aware transformational training experience
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