Adriana’s Story: Breaking Survival Mode & Building What I Couldn’t Find
I didn’t create Adriana Alternative to tell “Adriana’s Story” or to fit into the wellness industry or really to achieve any one thing at all— I created it because the world was missing what I needed: honest community, authenticity and real vulnerability.
For most of my life, I lived inside survival mode without a name for it. Late-diagnosed autism, ADHD, hypermobility, and chronic health challenges shaped every inch of my experience. But no one — including me — had the language for it. I was swimming upstream through exhaustion, masking, and invisible systems that convinced me I was broken.
Burnout wasn’t an event. It became the backdrop to my life, buzzing underneath everything I did. And yet, I pushed — harder, faster, always trying to meet expectations that weren’t designed for people like me.
People often saw me as gifted or “fine.” But under the surface, I was fighting to survive a world built for someone else. And like many of the people I work with now, I kept trying to fix myself with all the wrong tools — rigid diets, productivity hacks, endless self-help.
The harder I tried to “win” inside this system or to “fix” myself, the more disconnected I became.
The Shift: The System Was the Problem
My breaking point wasn’t a breakdown — it was a wake-up call.
The system itself was never made for me. I wasn’t broken. The frameworks I was trying to survive inside were.
So, I stopped outsourcing my life to a world that didn’t understand me. I stepped away from trends, perfectionism, and the grind culture that was draining me. I rebuilt from scratch — with radical self-acceptance, through the seemingly endless trials and tribulations I was experiencing– learning how to move through life at my own pace. Somewhere inside I knew my challenges were expanding my perspective, my ability to truly see, hear and empathize others and providing me with hard-earned wisdom.
But there was many years before I realized that I had to do things differently.
Adriana Alternative Was Born
Adriana Alternative is like a blueprint for people like me — the masked, the burned-out, the empaths, creatives, dreamers, the late-diagnosed, and the ones who’ve quietly been surviving without a map.
Adriana Alternative provides personalized support and resources that go beyond performative wellness culture and into the heart of dismantling the invisible pressures — ableism, survival mode, endless stress — and giving people the tools and the permission to build a life they don’t need to recover from.
What I Bring
I’m a meditation teacher, mental health advocate, and coach who has lived the very path I help others navigate. I combine personal experience, research-backed tools, and real-world grit to help people break free from systems that never fit.
I don’t do shallow coaching or sugar-coated advice. I teach people how to finally come home to themselves. And I have a community over over +1000 people and nearly +100 personal testimonials to prove it.
5 Truths I’ve Learned
- If you don’t own your story, someone else will.
- You don’t have to earn rest — you need it to survive.
- Nervous system care is foundational, not optional.
- Community is medicine. Isolation wears you down. (And your worthy of community wherever you are in your journey– no matter what)
- You are not broken — but you may be surviving inside a life made for someone else.
Who This is For
Everyone. We could all benefit from addressing the internalized systems of shame, blame and survival. But especially those who:
- Know they were made for something more in life
- Know they can have a better & more meaningful life but can’t seem to achieve it
- Anyone navigating late-diagnosed neurodivergence, chronic burnout, persistent grief, self-shame, repetitive situations or survival-mode
- Those who are tired of surface-level “solutions” that never stick
- Anyone ready for tools that meet them where they are — no toxic positivity, no pretending
The Movement Continues
Adriana Alternative is a space to lay down the survival & the masks and build something real. It’s where endurance meets ease, and where you learn how to move through life without abandoning yourself.
This is where survival mode ends — and something more human begins.
About Adriana
Adriana is a Meditation Teacher, Mental Health Advocate, and endurance athlete who helps people break free from survival mode and cycles of internal shame, blame and burnout to break free & create lives that finally feel like their own.
As the founder of Adriana Alternative, she supports those navigating frustration, disappointment, misrepresentation, disconnection, and systems that were never built with them in mind — offering real tools, grounded coaching, and honest support.
Drawing from her lived experience with late-diagnosed autism, ADHD, hypermobility, and chronic health challenges, Adriana helps others untangle internalized ableism, trauma responses, and patterns of overextension. Her work is rooted in radical self-acceptance, rebuilding body-mind connection, and helping people create lasting momentum without burning out.
In both her work and life, Adriana integrates the mindset of an endurance athlete & a survivor of societal and systematic challenges — balancing structure, resilience, and deep self-awareness. Whether cycling long distances & high elevation, navigating difficult skiing terrain, creating resources or guiding her community, she brings the same integrity and grit to every space she enters.
Through coaching, live events, and self-paced resources, Adriana helps people reclaim their energy, rewire their way of living, how they see and feel about themselves and build momentum that lasts.
Her greatest personal lesson?
That in the self-actualization and authenticity a paradise can unfold.
But it’s not possible without people who get it and resources that work with us, not against us.
This is what Adriana Alternative is here to do. It’s here to be the safe-ground, resource-hub and the shift you’ve been aching for. You’re not broken, bad or wrong, and you never have been.
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And from the bottom of our hearts here at Adriana Alternative– Thank you for being here.
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