We recently connected with Valeria Koopman and have shared our conversation below.
Valeria, appreciate you joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.
Up to that moment, I was living in the past. I was literally reliving my traumas in the present. I could have benefited from therapy, but it never occurred to me that I was not well.
I had been emotionally and physically abused as a child.
It impacted and influenced the way I perceived myself, life, and others.
I often felt lonely, sad, depressed, and not worthy of love.
To cope with these painful feelings, I stayed busy, stayed unhappily married for almost 20 years, and changed jobs and careers constantly.
This created my limited reality, one that perpetuated itself for over 30 years.
I felt disconnected from my true nature, now that I understand what my true nature is!
The defining moment for me happened in the midst of an emotional crisis where I could not find any other coping method to hide the pain that I was trying to escape. I reached the end of that journey of trying to hide what was feeling.
There was no other work, place, thing, or another relationship to move toward in order to escape that deep-seated pain.
In the midst of that confusion and visceral despair, something revealed itself.
I clearly heard a thought I had never had before, it said: “You are already dead — If you were to come back to life, what would you do or be?” — The answer I heard was: “I want to share my story, I want to write a book about it.” — As if I was seeing the sun for the first time, my heart opened and JOY started to shine on me! — ” Yes, Yes I am Fit for Joy!”, I remember saying it over and over again.
It felt like a new me had been born and the old, sad, and depressed me had died that day.
An amazing feeling of freedom arose! I was free from the pain that had kept me as my own prisoner for 30 years.
I couldn’t put words to it nor fully understand what happened to me at that time, but my heart knew that was my first spiritual awakening. It was the beginning of living a life that was true to my heart.
It all happened so fast.
I moved from New York City to Paris to write my first book titled “Fit for Joy” and built a website with the same name.
After publishing my book, I started hosting “A Quest for Well-Being Podcast” which has 250+k downloads and my YouTube channel 800+K views, as of today.
The messages I share are fundamentally the same throughout all these years — love, joy, inner peace, and freedom are uncovered and not discovered. They are, have been and always will be in YOU. Healing is the door to heaven on Earth and spirituality is what we experience when we enter through that door.
Valeria, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
https://fitforjoy.org/ is my website. It has all the information about what I do and how I do it.
I write well-being books, host “A Quest for Well-Being podcast” and promote well-being messages and works.
I am the founder of Fit for Joy Corp which is a marketing agency that works with healing and spiritual authors, therapists, coaches, and spiritual teachers.
My Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/@
How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?
Genuine and heartfelt longing to meaningfully connect with other human beings.
What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?
Sincere connection! I love the divine essence that lives in all humans and in everything!!!! :)
Contact Info:
- Website: fitforjoy.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aquestforwellbeing/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefitforjoylife/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriateles/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/FitForJoy130853
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/fitforjoy