I’m Marina. I don’t like labels much, but if I had to choose one, it would be digital nomad. I was born and raised in Belgium, and whenever someone asked me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered: “A gypsy!” What I meant was a world traveler.
In a way, that’s what I became. I lived and worked in Greece, Paraguay and Spain before returning to Belgium, where I ran the HR department of Cronos Group, Belgium’s largest IT company, for many years. Later I also worked there as a personal coach, because I have always felt that my purpose was to make a difference in my own life, and through that, in the lives of others.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to questions of life purpose, mindset and inner alignment. Even as a young girl, I knew that everything is Energy and everything is connected. At 18, I developed severe migraines, and when no doctor could find a physical cause, I started exploring other paths to healing. That search led me to three years of holistic psychotherapy and to tools like Access Bars, Reiki, the Law of Attraction, the Silva Method (self-hypnosis), TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises), ThetaHealing, Dru Yoga, RPT (Reference Point Therapy) and Soul Cards. After a search of more than twenty years, I finally let go of the migraines. Again and again, I saw how small shifts in attention and belief can change the way people experience their days.
In 2007, something happened that I can only describe as a moment of Allness and Oneness… an experience that changed everything I thought I knew about life and about myself. It was the moment the great change in my life truly began.
I believe we contribute to humanity and to the Universe by expanding our own energy. If I can have a positive influence on even one person’s life, my life has been worth it. My life found its real purpose when I started planting seeds, and that is still what I love most.
Eventually the call to live abroad grew too strong, and my husband and I moved to the United States, where we lived for ten years. In 2025 we decided it was time for something new: we sold our home, let go of all our possessions and started traveling the world without a fixed address. We landed in Mexico, a beautiful country to explore on so many levels.
With Alfina, I wanted to create something different in a world full of quick, surface-level card apps. I’ve always been drawn to words with depth and meaning. Alfina is my way of offering a simple daily moment to pause, reflect and reconnect with what feels like the next right thought… the kind of support I wish I’d had at some of the most uncertain moments of my own journey.
Life has taught me how quickly things can change, and how important it is to have practices that help you come back to yourself.
