March 1st, 2020
My name is Diana Di Clemente.
I was born in Lausanne in 1973 to a Swiss mother and an Italian father.
I grew up being manipulated, with physical and verbal violence. I suffered incest and physical and mental abuse. Like every human being on the Earth, I experienced the 5 fundamental wounds to the soul: rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal and injustice.
How did I go through my childhood? I dissociated myself to survive.
How did I start my teenage life? By listening to my intuition, my little inner voice telling me that life was not like that, that there was something else.
From the age of 16, I worked on my personal development. More than anything I wanted to heal my wounds. One day, I came across a book that was talking about our inner power, about this capacity that we all have, inside of us, to be able to change things. This book was a trigger. It opened my eyes. I remember thinking to myself: “Ok so there is another world?”.
So, I immersed myself in books to understand, learn, grow and find some comfort and answers. As soon as I got my first salary, I went to see benevolent therapists who helped me realize that I was not worthless, stupid, ugly, “the shame of the family” (because I had preferred to do an apprenticeship rather than go to the university), or the one who always has to put herself aside to let others pass. It helped mem grow and build myself.
Since then, I have been passionate about human development and communication between human beings.
My adult life? I have obviously reproduced the patterns of my childhood. I followed the codes and very well kept the labels that had been put on my back. And above all, I did everything to be loved by others, scared to be rejected and abandoned.
I went through the stages and I screwed up, a lot. Life is that: we move forward, we try, we experiment, we fall, we get up and we continue. Sometimes on the right track, sometimes not.
The universe always puts on our path the experiences that make us grow. And what if we don’t learn from these experiences? The patterns repeat themselves.
The books and the therapists were good. But I was missing a little something. And as life is always well done, synchronicity operated once again. One day I came across a flyer talking about an NLP training. Eureka! It’s the technique of this American author who spoke about unlimited power! I signed up to explore in real life, with other people. Discover, learn, share, grow, again. And then, during this training, the teacher told me: “Diana, you’re talented to help people. You are made for this. Make a career of it”.
The seed was then planted. Over the following years, I helped. I tried. But it was too soon. I did not feel credible. I felt too young, despite of the positive feedbacks from my clients. I thus decided to go back to work in corporate and told myself: “Coaching? I’ll come back to it in 10 years”. And my subconscious held on to that thought. One day, 10 years later, he knocked on my door and reminded me of the promise I had made to myself.
I thus immersed myself again in this magical world, enrolled on new training, and, driven by this passion and connected to my inner light, I started coaching again.
Since 2017, I have been lucky enough to be able to accompany and guide those who need it on the path they want to follow and it is a real blessing for me.