My story
Liam Krassenburg, August 2026
I am Liam Krassenburg.
For six years I smoked weed almost every day. I have been sober for a while now. Not because it was easy, but because I was done spending my life in a haze.
I am not telling you this for sympathy. I am telling you because it is the truth, and because I believe people are not helped by perfect stories. They are helped by honest ones.
Where it started
I grew up in a broken home. My parents divorced, and as a child I was physically and mentally abused.
I do not share that to point at anyone. I have forgiven what happened, and this story is not about blame. It is about what it did to me, and how I got out of it.
For a long time I lived from something closer to hate than anything else I have ever felt. Not at one particular person, but at the situation, at myself, at life itself. That hate and that pain turned into withdrawal: from friends, from new people, from anything that asked for connection. I filled the empty space with weed and with consuming. Junk food, junk thinking, junk attention on everything except myself.
But it was not only pain that pulled me in. There were two more layers underneath.
The three layers that held me
Learned hate
I carried a lot of hate and envy for a long time. At other people, at myself, at life. Most of it was learned.
It was the only example I knew. Anger came through the front door every day, and there was rarely anything on the table but junk. No deliberate choice for health or attention, just whatever happened to be there. As a child you copy what you see, not what you should be seeing. For a while I became a mirror of what surrounded me every day.
What it did to my body
That way of eating left physical marks. I became chronically ill: a chronically inflamed oesophagus, and inflamed lining in my stomach, oesophagus and gut.
For years that was simply my reality. I did not know any better. Only later did I realise how much what landed on my plate every day had shaped my body.
That realisation is one of the direct reasons why nutrition and how your body works are so central to what I do now. I know from my own experience what it costs not to know.
A brain with nothing pushing back
I understood things quickly and often found the most efficient way to do something almost instantly. That sounds like an advantage, and it is. But it also meant the life around me offered very little challenge. No resistance, no need to be sharp.
So smoking was not only an escape from pain. It was also a way to dull a head that was constantly looking for something to challenge it and not finding it.
Those three layers fed each other. The pain, the self-image, and the underuse of a brain moving faster than its surroundings. Together they held me for years.
What pulled me out
My father.
For years he showed me that love exists in this world. Patiently, without giving up, even when I did not believe it myself. In the end he got through. That love has become one of the foundations I build on now.
The turning point did not arrive in one moment. It came from a stack of small realisations, books read, moments of silence, and finally the understanding that I wanted to give my life to Jesus and YHWH.
Not as rescue out of fear of hell. I have had that doubt myself and I am willing to say so out loud. But because the longer I lived towards it, the more it felt right. Love that drives out fear, not the other way round.
From there I started building. On myself, on a framework for living with "i AM" as the anchor: who I am, not whatever happens to be running through my head. On recognising patterns that were never mine but inherited.
I am still very much on the way. This is not the story of someone who made it and is now explaining how it is done. This is the story of someone in the middle of it, sharing the road while walking it.
That is exactly why LiamKratos exists.
Vision
A world where people do not live from survival, habit and inherited pain, but from who they truly are.
Most people carry beliefs their whole life that are not even their own. A parent's fears. Patterns from a childhood. A voice saying "this is who you are" when it is only who you became because of what happened to you.
I believe freedom begins the moment you learn to see that difference. And then learn to live from who you AM, not from what you were taught.
Mission
To transform people completely, from A to Z. Not one part of life, but the whole of it: mindset, faith, body, beliefs, identity.
Where Kratos Natural is about the body, about longevity, nutrition and how your body works, LiamKratos is about the rest. The mind, the beliefs, the faith, the identity built around them.
Together they are the complete package. You can have the best body in the world and still be locked inside a mind full of limiting beliefs. It works no better the other way round.
What I guide people through
Limiting beliefs. The patterns that hold you back without you noticing, often inherited from your childhood or your surroundings.
Identity and the i AM foundation. Learning to speak and think from who you are, not from your mood or your circumstances.
Spiritual foundation. For anyone looking for a faith base that holds, whatever tradition you start from.
Addiction and recovery. From experience, not theory.
Breaking family patterns. How to recognise generational trauma and stop it with yourself, without condemning your parents.
The plan
Phase 1, sharing the story. Now. Being fully transparent about where I come from and where I stand today. Content, personal posts, the truth without a filter. People recognise themselves in honesty faster than in perfection.
Phase 2, one to one coaching. Starting small, with people who recognise themselves in the story and want that transformation for themselves. Scale is not the first goal. First prove that it works, one person at a time.
Phase 3, structure and programmes. From loose coaching to a repeatable path. Steps, exercises, a framework other people can also walk on their own, based on what actually worked in phase 2.
Phase 4, coming together with Kratos Natural and Kratos Academy. In time, body and mind grow towards one place where people can find the complete package. Exactly what Kratos Academy is aiming at in the long run.
Why this is different from other coaching
Most coaching tells you what to do once the person telling you has already made it. I am sharing it while I am still in the middle of it. The dips, the doubts, the irritations, the moments I fall back into old behaviour myself. Not as weakness, but because that is the only honest place to speak from.
I do not believe in perfect guides written by people who never fell. I believe in honest guides, written by someone who knows what it feels like to get back up.
Liam Krassenburg
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