Personal, not generic
You have a nervous-system signature — like your handwriting, like your voice. Some crash after conflict; some spike before visibility. I map yours in our 1:1 sessions and adjust the plan to your patterns, not a template.
The scientist and the patient. The performer and the person who learned the cost.
I'm Olga Apryshkina — a mental-performance coach in Basel, Switzerland, and the founder of Thrive Hub. Over 600 professionals have worked with me to restore energy and thrive under pressure.
- Functional-medicine coach · ICF-certified · 9+ yrs
- M.Sc. pharmaceutical medicine
- Somatic health · 8+ yrs
- Team-effectiveness coach · 3+ yrs
Who I help
Built for people who won't slow down — and shouldn't have to
I work with busy, overwhelmed professionals — corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, thirty and up — who love what they do but have started paying for it with their sleep, their energy and their presence at home.
If the cards beside sound familiar, you're not failing — your nervous system simply can't rest while your worth is tied to output. Thriving is a skill you can train — and I've seen every one of these patterns find its way out.
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Meet Olga
Olga in 60 seconds — her real intro
Hear it from me directly
Sixty seconds of the person behind the method — why I left “pushing harder” behind, and what I build with my clients instead.
“I’ve been the person who couldn’t switch off.”
My principles
Five rules I run my own nervous system by — and everything we build at Thrive Hub.
Evidence over trends
“I'm not selling you a routine — I'm showing you the evidence.” Progress is grounded in stress physiology, heart-rate variability and recovery science — tracked, not guessed.
Rooted in nature
Breath, daylight, movement, real rest — the oldest regulation tools there are. Your body isn't designed to run 24/7; it's designed to recover, too — I bring it back into rhythms it already knows.
Regulate first, optimise after
For years I treated stillness as lost time — until my body sent the invoice. Now the order is fixed: restore the baseline first, and performance follows on its own.
Small enough to keep
No sabbatical, no life overhaul — small habits of 5–30 minutes that fit between meetings. The only rhythm I'll ever ask of you is one you can hold in a real working week.
See the membership programs Every program is built on these five principles.
The evidence
I don’t ask you to believe me — I show you the research.
53%
of adults say stress has already harmed their physical health. It was never just in your head.
American Psychological Association 30%how far focus and problem-solving can fall after a single sleepless night. Recovery isn’t downtime — it’s performance.
Sleep-deprivation research 5 mina day of slow, long-exhale breathing beat meditation for mood and stress in a Stanford randomized trial.
Cell Reports Medicine, 2023 Cortisol ↓breath and mindfulness produce a measurable drop in cortisol, your main stress hormone — proof you can track, not a feeling.
Meta-analysis of randomized trials
600+ professionals coached
20+ yrs pharmaceutical science
M.Sc. pharmaceutical medicine
Functional-medicine coach · ICF-certified · 9+ yrs
Somatic health · 8+ yrs
Team-effectiveness coach · 3+ yrs
Certifications & qualifications
- M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Medicine · Hibernia College
- B.Sc. Science · York University, Toronto
- ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
- Certified Professional Coach · IDC Institute, Geneva
- Precision Nutrition L1 · Exercise Nutrition
- MovNat Certified Trainer · Level 1
- RYT-200 Certified Yoga Teacher
A master’s degree in pharmaceutical medicine (NFQ Level 9, first-class honours) — the scientific backbone behind twenty years turning research into medicines, and the reason the method is grounded in physiology rather than trends.
An undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Science & Engineering — where the scientific training began.
The ICF’s globally-recognised coaching credential, earned by demonstrating proficient use of core coaching competencies through a comprehensive assessment.
A 156-hour ICF-accredited (ACTP / EduQua) professional coaching diploma — deep training in values-led, evidence-based coaching.
Applied nutrition coaching built around sustainable behaviour change rather than restriction.
Training in natural human movement — strength and mobility that transfer to real life, not just the gym.
A 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher training — the breath and movement foundation woven through the classes.
General research on stress physiology, shown to explain the science behind the method. Individual results vary — this is education, not medical advice.
My story
For twenty years, I helped bring life-saving medicines to the patients who needed them most. But quietly, I was one of those patients too.
Eczema has been my life teacher since childhood — sleepless nights, doctors saying “it's genetic”. At nineteen, an integrative doctor told me food is medicine, and my inflammation dropped drastically. It wasn't restriction. It was regulation — my first lesson, decades before I had the word for it.
The invoice
Then came corporate life. Twenty years in pharmaceutical drug development taught me to treat stillness as lost time — and my body eventually sent the invoice: shallow sleep, flat mornings, patience running out by Wednesday. A dermatologist ran full labs, treated the root cause, and prescribed something unexpected — yoga, like medicine. It took me ten classes just to learn to slow down.
The snap
The real turning point came on a call with over five thousand people. Someone asked a question we'd already covered three times — and I snapped. That was not me. That's when I realised: I wasn't managing my work. My work was managing me.
February 2022, Egypt.
The collapse that became the turn
In February 2022, COVID found me in Egypt — and my body collapsed. Full-body inflammation; getting to the bathroom felt like climbing Everest. The virus was the trigger, but how hard I went down — and how long I stayed there — was years of unprocessed load finally calling it in.
The living lab
So I treated my body like a living lab. Patience, testing, listening. Functional medicine, yoga nidra, fifteen-minute pauses that taught my body how to recover again — learning to regulate before I optimise. To heal myself, I became the medicine: yoga and meditation teacher, breathwork and functional-movement facilitator, functional-medicine coach.
Two mountains
Years earlier I had climbed Annapurna to prove I was enough — and paid for it with two nights of a racing heart and years of not being able to train. Last September I stood on the Salkantay pass in Peru: higher, five thousand metres, same me — zero symptoms. On the first climb, my body paid the price of proving. On the second, it was my partner.
My energy still isn't perfect — it rises and falls. But I know what my body needs now, and I know this: the body can rebuild when we work together with it. That's what Thrive Hub is — everything I learned, finally in one place, for people who are done surviving.
Your next level doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from regulating smarter.
Olga Apryshkina · founder of Thrive Hub
Talk it through with me
A free 30-minute discovery call — no scripts, no pressure, just an honest look at where your energy is going.