The Story

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When Life Knocks at My Door

From time to time, life seems to knock at my door, whispering: It is time, my love. Time to stand up and raise your voice for a collective wound, a collective trauma that needs healing.

But before you raise your voice, dive deep and face your own woundedness. You are part of this collective. Your wounds are personal — and not personal. Dare to explore them, to feel them, to sense them, to live and even die in them.

When life knocks at my door, it usually begins with something arising in my own life. I begin to see it. I begin to face it. At some point I begin to speak about it — and realize that I am not alone. That this very issue is arising for many people in this very period of time. And then it dawns on me: once again, life has led me to touch into a collective trauma, a social taboo.

FromWomenToMen

That is how FromWomenToMen was born seven years ago. The video went viral on YouTube and Facebook. It was covered by news channels in many countries. It touched — and shook — many hearts. It shook me profoundly as well.

When journalists asked me what my next project would be, I was perplexed. It wasn’t even in my mind to think about a “next” project. I had just given birth to something immense. I needed time to sit with it. To walk with it.

FromWomenToWomen – It Is Time

Only now, seven years later, quite unexpectedly, life knocked at my door again.

After working deeply with my wounds regarding men — and with my shadow in that realm — my feminine wounds in being a woman among women came to the surface and called for my attention.

The mother wound.

The sister wound.

It was painful. I looked at how deep these wounds truly were in me. I dared to feel them. And then I dared to ask myself: What is my part in this? Where is my shadow acting out with other women? Where have I wounded other women?

Facing this was even more painful.

At the same time, a deep longing arose in me — a longing for real sisterhood. For truly trusting other women. I began to speak about it and again realized how many of us carry this quietly.

And then, suddenly, that subtle but very clear voice began whispering: It is time for a new video, Hanna. FromWomenToWomen.

Resistance

There were parts in me saying: Really? Standing up publicly with a collective trauma again? This is demanding. It will cost you energy.

But honestly — when life knocks at my door like this, there is no space for argument. I put myself into service.

I admit that I — like many other women — thought that a project about sisterhood might be easier than courageously owning our feminine shadow toward men, where we had encountered strong resistance.

It was not easier.

It is not easy to give up a well-inhabited collective victim role and name our hidden power games with men. But I had not expected that the shadow acting out within sisterhood would be even more hidden, even less spoken about.

This shadow can appear as subtle competition, comparison, exclusion, moral superiority, silent judgment — or as smiling on the surface while withdrawing trust underneath. It is refined. Often unconscious. And therefore powerful.

There is a collective narrative: Of course we love each other. Of course we stand together as sisters.

And yet — sometimes the knife comes from behind.

Naming this is painful. And necessary.

When I reached out to women to join, many were ready immediately. Others said, “Wonderful that you are doing this — but it’s not my issue.” Some later realized that this had been an initial defense against looking there. Because it hurts.

Freeing Our Power

So much feminine power is bound here.

I could almost hear Mother Earth calling on us to rise — to end these learned and conditioned patterns and discover how much power we hold to create the world we long to live in, once we choose a new paradigm of real sisterhood.

It may not feel like it at first, but facing and owning our shadows is a pathway to real empowerment. Power that is no longer built on rivalry — but on alignment.

After I had written the script for FromWomenToWomen, I asked my dear friend and sister Stefana if she would collaborate and re-view it with me. She said yes. What followed was a deep process of kneading the dough of this message — formulating, reformulating — and walking the talk.

More than one sisterhood issue arose in our field while working on the text. You cannot do this work without life inviting you to embody it.

Thank you, Stefana, for this precious collaboration and for walking the talk with me.

Stefana found our incredible camera woman, Gina — who not only filmed and edited but also stepped in front of the camera herself and supported the project in so many ways: interviews, social media, the online platform.

Thank you, Gina. What a blessing you are.

FromWomenToWomen & Women in White – A Dream

Together with Sabine Lichtenfels, I had planned a women’s retreat called Woman’s Rage – Woman’s Wisdom. We decided to work with the FromWomenToWomen script during the seminar and to begin filming immediately after the retreat ended.

What a powerful and beautiful challenge that was. Thank you, Sabine. Thank you to the team. Thank you to the more than 50 women who stepped into this adventure together.

The night before the seminar, I had a dream. I dreamed of millions of women in white walking toward Israel and Palestine, toward Russia and Ukraine, toward all places of war and genocide — to end it.

In my dream, we were simply all women of this planet. We were so many that there was no stopping us. There wasn’t even resistance.

One detail struck me: this initiative was possible because we were nourished and supported everywhere we walked - with superfoods. And this was possible because even the first ladies — the spouses of presidents and billionaires — had joined the movement and freed resources to sustain it.

The dream ended with the warmongering presidents of this era gathered in a desert camp — far from harming anyone — brought to a beautiful oasis where they received care, love, and group trauma therapy.

When I woke up, I had to laugh. What a dream.

And yet it did not feel naive. It felt like a blueprint.

It showed a world in which we women step out of competition and mistrust and truly walk together. It showed the power that lies in that unity — a power capable of shifting the very structures we believe to be immovable.

When I woke up, I knew why I had to make this video.

International Women’s Day – March 8, 2026

The phenomenon of “Women in White” is intriguing. This vision seems to have come to many women, and initiatives are emerging around the world.

A few days ago, I received an invitation from Women for Peace to travel to the capitals of Europe on International Women’s Day — to stand together in silence and dressed in white for peace. I had goosebumps. My heart was deeply moved.

So on International Women’s Day 2026, women in white will stand together for Peace AND the FromWomenToWomen video will be released into the world.

May it travel far.

May it become a movement.

May the movements join — and grow as powerful as Earth needs us to be.

With gratitude to all the women who are part of this — and to all the women yet to come,

Hanna