Maria Stars Bad Habit Breakthrough Coach & Hypnotherapist

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Hi I am Maria 

For many years, I lived the kind of “successful” life from the outside - working my way through the corporate world, managing high-end hospitality environments, operating businesses, and constantly striving for more.

But behind that success was something deeper:
a journey of resilience, emotional survival, reinvention, and personal transformation.

I came to Australia without family support, without strong English skills, and without the certainty of what my future would look like. Like many migrants and high-achieving adults, I had to learn how to survive, adapt, and push forward no matter what.

I climbed the corporate ladder through determination, hard work, and persistence. Later, I stepped into small business ownership searching for something more meaningful - Freedom, Fulfillment, and Purpose.

Yet throughout those years, one thing became increasingly clear to me:

Success means very little if we do not understand our Inner Emotional World.

Over time, I began to notice how peoples's lives get silently shaped by Emotional Overwhelm.

They are manifested through emotional unwanted habits, smoking, vaping, compulsive shopping, procrastination, emotional eating, stress patterns, self-sabotage, anxiety, and the constant search for relief.

Most people are not “weak.”
They are emotionally overloaded, disconnected from themselves, and trapped in coping patterns they do not fully understand.

My passion for personal development began in 2003 when I completed my first NLP Practitioner training.That experience changed my life.

For the first time, I understood that lasting transformation was possible when we work with the unconscious mind, emotional patterns, identity, values, and internal communication — not just surface-level willpower.

From that point forward, I became deeply committed to learning and growth.

While operating a high-end small business and balancing the demands of life, I continued investing in extensive training in:

• NLP 
• Master NLP 
• Hypnotherapy 
• Coaching 
• Emotional change work 
• Human behaviour and mindset transformation 

I became hungry to understand why people repeat painful habits even when they truly want change and what I discovered is this:

Bad habits are often Emotional Signals before BIGGER problems appear.

Smoking, Vaping, Compulsive Shopping, Emotional Spending, Overwhelm, Burnout, Emotional Shutdown, Self-sabotage just to name a few and they are rarely just “bad habits.”

They are often coping mechanisms for stress, emotional pain, identity struggles, loneliness, pressure, or unresolved emotional patterns.

Today, through Maria Stars Coaching, my mission is to help people create lasting change for a purposeful life.

I provide a safe, compassionate, and emotionally grounded space where clients can break free from destructive patterns, reconnect with themselves and create sustainable transformation from the inside out.

My work combines lived experience, deep listening, emotional understanding, NLP, Coaching, and Hypnotherapy to help clients move beyond temporary motivation and into genuine personal change.

Because transformation is not about becoming someone else.

It is about Becoming Free Enough to Be Yourself. 

If you are ready Book a free 30-minute call with me to learn more about

 how I can help you.

              " I will help you Break Free From Emotional Bad Habits 

                                  Without Relying On Willpower Alone"

  " Quit Smoking, Vaping, Emotional Spending, and Self-sabotage patterns 

                            by understanding the emotional root beneath the habit"

               " EMOTIONAL BAD HABIT BREAKTHROUGH COACH"

Using NLP, Time Line Therapy ®, Coaching and Hypnotherapy to help you                                    reclaim Clarity, Confidence and Calm.