All you need to know
About Me
For me, healing happens when attachment science meets nervous system safety -Â and love stops feeling like survival
THE GOAL: To help you break trauma bond patterns and build secure attachment from the inside out.
You’re not stuck because you lack insight.
You’re stuck because your nervous system still associates intensity with connection.
Together, we identify your attachment style in real time, interrupt anxious–avoidant loops, and retrain your system to recognise safety - not chaos - as love.
Change doesn’t happen through awareness alone.
It happens when your body finally feels secure.
You don’t have to do this alone.
My Story
It didn’t start the way you might expect
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I didn’t arrive here because I followed a calling, burned my life down, or chased healing as a trend.
I arrived here because I needed it for myself.
I’ve lived through childhood trauma, complex relational dynamics, grief, and the quiet pattern of understanding why something isn’t healthy - and still feeling pulled toward it.
I know what it’s like to be intelligent, self-aware, and capable… and still caught in attachment patterns that don’t feel good.
My path has always existed in two worlds.
Years spent in high-level corporate environments where logic, structure, systems, and performance mattered.
And years immersed in deep therapeutic work - studying attachment dynamics, trauma bonding, nervous system regulation, and the body’s response to survival.
What I learned -Â personally and professionally -Â is this:
Insight doesn’t break relational patterns. Safety does.
Understanding attachment intellectually doesn’t stop you from chasing.
Knowing someone is avoidant doesn’t teach your body how to stay regulated.
Real change happens when your nervous system experiences something different.
Today, my work sits at the intersection of attachment science, nervous-system recalibration, lived experience, and structured implementation. It’s grounded, evidence-informed, and deeply human.
I don’t work from a place of fixing people.
I work from understanding relational systems -Â how anxious and avoidant dynamics lock together, how trauma bonds form, and how those loops can be interrupted safely.
Some people call this a paradox.
Corporate meets calm.
Structure meets emotional intelligence.
Strategy meets nervous system repair.
That’s where The Corporate Hippie was born - not as an identity, but as an integration.
If you’re here, you’re probably not looking for more insight.
You’re looking for something that actually shifts.
That’s the work I do.
The Story Behind The Corporate HippieHow The Corporate Hippie Came to Life
I didn’t set out to build a brand.
I set out to understand why intelligent, capable men and women (myself included) -Â could understand attachment theory and still repeat the same relationship patterns.
For years, I thrived in corporate environments. I loved systems. Strategy. Negotiation. Understanding how structures create outcomes.
What I didn’t understand at the time was that relationships operate in systems too.
Attachment patterns are structured.
Trauma bonds are predictable.
Anxious and avoidant dynamics follow loops.
And until those loops are interrupted at a nervous system level, awareness alone doesn’t create change.
The wisdom I carry didn’t come from textbooks alone.
It came from living through childhood trauma, relational complexity, narcissistic dynamics, and the slow unraveling of identity that happens when you confuse survival with connection.
It came from doing the work -Â not once, but repeatedly -Â until my body learned what safety actually feels like.
Corporate gave me structure.
Therapy gave me depth.
Attachment science gave me language.
Experience gave me precision.
The Corporate Hippie isn’t about spirituality versus logic.
It’s about integration.
Strategy and nervous system repair.
Structure and emotional intelligence.
Science and lived wisdom.
This work isn’t about empowerment clichés.
It’s about dismantling attachment patterns at the root — so love stops feeling like survival.
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I’m On a Mission
My mission is simple.
To end generational attachment trauma.
Because when adults learn secure attachment, children don’t grow up needing to recover from their childhoods.
When one man or woman breaks a trauma bond, she changes the emotional inheritance of her family.
That’s generational repair.
That’s the legacy I’m building.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed or emotionally stuck
If you’re functional, but something still feels off
If you’re ready to actively create what’s next
If you’re not sure where to start
 "The journey to healing starts with a single step - one moment of courage, one act of self-care."
- LINA NICHOLLS
