Marius Miliunas

I entered this world on a winter morning, a fitting prelude to the cold and loneliness I often felt as a child around others. I was timid, small, and invisible. I loved climbing trees, which offered a vertical escape from the drama at home. I’d hide in my room, where I learned to survive by disconnecting.

I studied graphic design in Georgia, far from my past, to start over anew and made friends who accepted that mask. I learned to perform by adapting. Then came the career: developing websites in New York City, earning more than I knew how to spend. From the outside, I looked successful, on the inside I ached. I was spending nearly a third of my 168-hour weeks inside an office. Then I stumbled upon Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth by the side of the road and something began to stir.

Drawn by the promise of freedom, I left the Big Apple with my savings to start a company and work even longer hours. I lived abroad for the first time—first in Lithuania, the land of my ancestors, then in Sri Lanka, Berlin, and Colombia. I found meditation and journaling quietly deepened. Then, one spring morning, the startup collapsed, and my search for purpose truly began.

Another autumn marked a sharper turning point. On my first solo hitchhiking trip from Lithuania to Odessa, I returned to my tent to find my passport, savings, and computer stolen. Stripped back to essentials, I returned to New York and the office job. That season forced me inward and revealed a hard truth: freedom without rootedness is fragile.

Five years later, I left again—this time with more clarity. I hitchhiked through Europe and New Zealand, then returned to Lithuania to root rather than roam. I bought land, began cultivating a food forest, and studied coaching. The direction became clear: I wanted to work with humans, not computers—with trauma and truth, not code. I found my teacher in 2021 – my partnership with my now-wife and I continued with NLP, hypnosis, and Family Constellations.

Now we live in Southern France with our daughter. I continue my training in Family Constellations and working on myself—committed to becoming a clearer channel in service to others.