My Story

A Different Beginning

I didn't start by creating dresses.
I started by losing the life I thought I was building.

After years in performance, logic, and achievement, my body asked for something else.
Slowness. Truth. Presence.

This work grew from listening - not to plans, but to what was alive inside.
The dresses came later, as a natural expression of that return.

If you're here, you're invited to explore what that journey became.

This is the short version of how this work began.
If you'd like to go deeper, the full story continues below (2–3 minutes reading).

Story of MissTeri

(2-3 min reading)

My life changed the moment lightning hit us in the mountains.

He didn't survive. I did.

And in a single instant, everything I believed about life, control, and certainty fell apart.

Before that, I lived in a world of logic and performance. I studied IT and information management, worked on high-level projects, and even spent time in a NASA lab developing robotics. I traveled constantly, collected experiences, stayed capable, productive, and "successful" from the outside.

But inside, something was missing.

There was a quiet feeling I couldn't solve with another achievement.

After the accident, I faced questions that don't fit into rational answers:

Why am I still here? What is death? What is the point of a life I was given back?

So I began searching in a different way. I walked the Camino de Santiago alone. I traveled solo through Asia and spent time in a meditation monastery in the mountains of Thailand. Hours of silence. Writing. Returning to my body. Slowly, I started to understand that my story wasn't only about loss — it was also about rebirth.

When I came back to "normal life," I tried to return to a corporate path. I became a project manager, led teams, did everything right… and still burned out. My nervous system made it clear: I couldn't build my life on performance anymore.

And that's where something new began.

I started asking a different question:
What does it mean to live from the body — not only from the mind?
What does softness, truth, and presence look like in real life?

I longed for dresses that wouldn't just look beautiful, but would support a person through transitions — in softness, in strength, in becoming. My first red dress was made from an old silk fabric from my family. When I put it on, it felt like stepping into a new version of myself.

I shared that moment online and people began to write — not about the cut or the price, but about the feeling. Soon after, I created a ritual for a dear friend who hadn't menstruated for a long time. I gifted her a red dress as a symbol of calling her cyclical life back. That day, I understood something clearly:

These are not "just dresses."

They can be a threshold. A ritual. A reminder of who you are.

That's how Ritual Dresses were born — as a space where people return to the body, to truth, and to aliveness, in a way that feels grounded and real.

Today I live between Europe and Asia (my heart-home is Koh Phangan). I create dresses, write, and build deeper offerings for anyone who feels called to go further - including a book that tells my full journey through loss, healing, and becoming.