Christianne Zurowski is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her expertise and positivity.

She walked away from a 12 year teaching career when it began to feel more like a cage than a calling. At that moment she knew it was time to leap. Inspired by family, fueled by intuition, and guided by a deep desire for authenticity, she transitioned from the classroom to coaching… trading grammar lessons for guiding transformations.

She didn’t arrive where she is today without struggle. Her story is one of bravery, self trust, and reclaiming sensitivity as a superpower. After years of people pleasing and self abandonment, she discovered that true change doesn’t begin in the mind, it starts in the body. And once she started listening to her body, she found her way from self abandonment to self trust.

She now helps others do the same… guiding them out of stress, burnout, and stuck patterns using the power of Body Intelligence. Blending neuroscience, somatics, and playful experiential tools, she equips her clients with practical strategies that shift not just the mind, but the entire nervous system. Her coaching is more than transformational, it’s tangible, sustainable, and deeply human. Here is what she said…

Meet Life Coach Christianne Zurowski:

Name: Christianne Zurowski

Pillar: The Mind, The Body, The Heart

Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to unleash their Body Intelligence, go from self abandonment to self trust and unlock the next chapter of their life.

How they can help: By using various tools and techniques like somatic practices, role play, embodiment exercises, nervous system regulation techniques, and personalized coaching frameworks, just to name a few.

First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?

Honestly, I hesitate to say it, but the pandemic was good to us.

As a coach, Zoom became the norm, which helped my career.

And for my family, it came at a unique time… my son was three, a crucial age for socializing, and I was determined to keep his childhood as “normal” as possible.

While we were in it, I called those years the “years of lemonade”, whenever life handed us an obstacle, we found another way to make lemonade out of lemons.

Since he couldn’t play with kids up close, I had to get creative.

I laminated picture cards for charades, got pool noodles for distance safe battles, and led backyard scavenger hunts with the other lonely kids in our complex.

My favourite imagination project was when we turned our big bicycle boxes into a castle, adding a new element each day for months, painting bricks, crafting a drawbridge, and making crowns and shields.

Thankfully, I worked part-time and on Zoom, so I had the capacity to create fun activities which made that challenging time magical.

I know others weren’t so lucky, and I’m extra grateful for my playful imagination and my background in teaching and leading summer camps, it all came in handy when we needed it most.

How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

As we know, the pandemic heightened stress, burnout, and disconnection for so many people.

Many of my clients came to me feeling lost and dissatisfied, like something had shifted which made tolerating the life they were living less manageable.

Many were stuck in fight or flight, unable to see clearly.

While others had awakened to a need for something greater.

Though I didn’t start out as an embodiment coach, at the core, my work has always been about looking inward to find authenticity.

While my clients struggled with navigating uncertainty, I helped them find the calm within themselves and build the self trust necessary to make decisions that were right for them.

What started as basic mindfulness practices grew into a richer, deeper, more embodied connection to self.

Without planning to, my professional journey took me down a deeper spiritual path and led me to my Embodiment Training, enabling me to blend what my heart and soul always knew with the research and practices to back it up.

I walk the talk and I show my clients how to do the same.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

I don’t know about learned, but it for sure reinforced it…

Presence is everything.

Cutting out the noise of the outside world was a gift that, if we have the capacity to be open to it, allows us the space to get centred, connect to what’s important, and focus our attention on what counts.

I understand that the pandemic wreaked havoc on the people who were under resourced (emotionally, physically, and financially), but it also stripped away distractions and made it clear that rushing through life on autopilot isn’t sustainable.

It shone a light on the need for embodied connection to build that resilience and the capacity to self regulate, skills deeply engrained in my work.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

Well, it actually began as a quest for something more.

I had been a teacher for about 12 years (and loved it!), when I knew it was time to move on.

I loved my students, but I knew I was meant for more than teaching Spanish grammar within the same four walls forever.

I also wanted to start my own family and knew that I could not keep up my level of school involvement AND be there for my own child without pulling back on all the extracurriculars I loved.

This was my knowing of myself.

At the same time, I was in Mexico visiting my family and both my uncle and his girlfriend are coaches.

It was they who put me onto the idea of becoming one myself.

I began to take some elective courses and realized that coaching offered all of the parts that I loved from teaching without any of the tedious marking and meetings AND it gave me freedom over my time.

So, I jumped!

Once I was finally pregnant, I gave up my stable career of 15 years, went back to school and began my private practice as Next Chapter Coach, and I’ve never been happier.

It’s been a steep business learning curve and I’ve learned so much about myself on this journey, but mostly I’m proud of me for being brave, honouring my needs, and sticking with it.

And I could never have done it without the support of my amazing husband!

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

As an empath, I felt others’ emotions so intensely that I didn’t just sense their pain, I embodied it.

As a kid, I could literally feel my skin peel or a bruise form when someone else got hurt.

This deep sensitivity led to me developing a lifelong pattern of people pleasing, constantly scanning for others’ needs, trying to help them feel better (so that I could feel better), while ignoring my own.

It wasn’t until my 30s, when multiple relationships imploded, that I realized my “helping” wasn’t helping me or them.

I realized that in helping them, I was actually self abandoning (and enabling them to stay stuck).

I had to unlearn the belief that my worth was tied to caretaking and start honouring my own needs.

The hardest (and most transformative) lesson was setting boundaries, holding space without absorbing others’ pain, and realizing it was okay to have needs, not just meet them.

I also had to reclaim my sensitivity as a gift rather than a burden.

I see now how I shut off my super sensitivity because it was too painful and I didn’t know how to manage it, but now I have the tools to navigate the enormity of this and TRUST in myself.

Now, as a Certified Embodiment Coach, I get to help others do the same… to tune into their body’s wisdom, break old patterns, and step fully into who they are, without guilt.

My journey from self abandonment to self trust is the foundation of my coaching today.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

My passion is Body Intelligence, teaching people practical tools and strategies so that they can learn to listen to and use the wisdom of their bodies.

Instead of the traditional focus on mindset shifts to create change, my approach is a bit like reverse engineering: starting with the body, which ultimately changes the mind.

So what does that mean?

Well, firstly, I help uncover my clients’ embodied patterns, and then we create new and opposing embodied practices that they can add into their life to undo those old patterns.

By simply changing one’s physical state or shape, it triggers the brain to think differently too, and voila! You’re well on your way to lasting transformation.

It’s so very cool because it does not require much storytelling to get to the crux of the issue.

It’s fast, effective, practical, and powerful!

Did you know, while the brain can process an amazing 40 to 50 bits of information per second, the rest of our sensory body is processing an astonishing 11 million bits of info in the same second?

What I do is help people tap into that other 11 million bits of info that happens on autopilot, and turn the unconscious, conscious.

Because when you can be aware of and decode that sensory input, there’s a wealth of information available to help you navigate stress and anxiety, improve decision making, communicate more effectively, lead with integrity, and live authentically.

I like to say I move people beyond EQ to BQ, opening up a new type of intelligence that we all already have within ourselves, BODY INTELLIGENCE.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

I bridge the gap between intellectual insight and embodied action.

Many coaching methods focus solely on mindset shifts, but I help clients create deep, embodied awareness so they can break unhelpful patterns and build lasting resilience.

My approach blends neuroscience, somatics, and real world application, making personal and professional transformation tangible and sustainable.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

Clients walk away with more than just strategies…

They get to experience a fundamental shift in how they show up and take away the practices needed to implement these shifts into their daily lives.

They develop:

1. A greater ability to manage stress and prevent burnout.
2. A deeper connection to their intuition and body intelligence.
3. Improved communication and relational awareness with others.
4. More clarity, confidence, and ease in decision making.
5. The ability to shift their state in the moment, rather than getting stuck in old patterns.
6. A deeper connection to their Self, enabling them to live in alignment with their values, lead with integrity, and live authentically.

These aren’t just surface level changes.

Research shows that 80% of the communication between the brain and body flows from the body to the brain, not the other way around.

So being able to develop their BQ and change their behaviour and physiology results in deep, lasting change.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

Yes!

I incorporate a mix of somatic practices, embodiment exercises, nervous system regulation techniques, and personalized coaching frameworks.

There is also a lot of playfulness in my work because we role play and act out different ways of being to learn how to break patterns and create new ones.

My work is highly interactive and experiential.

And I always take notes to provide clients with a recap of the session so that they can focus on being present and in the moment.

I like to say: less thinking and more doing.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

Your body is speaking to you all day long, are you listening?

The wisdom you seek isn’t just in your logical mind… it’s in your breath, your posture, your nervous system, your being.

When you learn to tune into and decipher these messages, you unlock a whole new level of clarity, confidence, freedom, and ease.

And the best part is that this intelligence already lives within you.

You just need to learn how to tap into these forgotten skills to unlock a whole new level of consciousness.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

We spend so much time worrying about what ‘THEY’ think… society, colleagues, family…

But often, ‘THEY’ is just a mental construct that keeps us stuck.

The moment we free ourselves from the heavy weight of that illusion, we open the door to deeper connection, creativity, and authenticity.

The only way to get there is by turning inward and listening to the messages coming through within us.

Our body holds the key… we just need to slow down, listen to it, and allow it to guide us forward.

By no means does this replace our brain, it’s not one or the other!

The goal is to let our mind and body work together as they were intended to do, enabling us to quiet our anxious, over thinking minds and opening us up to more levels of intelligence and a deep inner knowing that helps us better steer our way through life.

Your final thoughts?

Transformation isn’t just about changing how you think, it’s about changing how you show up in the world.

Your embodiment is your presence: how you move, how you relate, how you connect.

It’s more than just knowing your body, your intuition, or your thoughts, it’s about living them.

It’s alignment in motion.

You’ll know it’s working when your thoughts match your words, your emotions echo your truth, and your actions reflect all of it.

That’s real alignment.

That’s where peace, presence, and deep inner knowing live.

Body Intelligence is the vehicle that will get you there…

But confidence, resilience, authenticity, and ease?

That’s the destination.

If you’re ready to feel that shift from within, I’d be honored to walk beside you on that journey.

Where Can You Find Christianne Zurowski?

If you liked this interview and if you would love to unleash your Body Intelligence, go from self abandonment to self trust and unlock the next chapter of your life, schedule a free exploration call here and see how Coach Christianne can help you do that.

You can always check her website and find more about all the ways she can help you.

If you’d like to peak a glimpse into her coaching, feel free to watch this video or download the free guide “Body Intelligence 101: Learning the Language of Your Body“

If you want to keep in touch with her, follow her Instagram and Facebook accounts.

And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message on WhatsApp or to her Email christianne@nextchaptercoach.com. It was an honor having this interview with her.