The moment you turn inward and connect to your diamond within, life becomes clearer, softer, and more powerful.
– Diana Berschader
Diana Berschader is on a mission to help emotionally sensitive women remember their inner brilliance — what she calls the “diamond within.” Through her bestselling work, transformational teaching, and her educational program, she guides people to look beyond symptoms, beyond outside approval, and beyond fear, and instead to heal from the inside out. Her philosophy is simple but powerful: the body remembers, emotions are energy, and when we speak to ourselves with love and take full responsibility for our lives, everything begins to shift.
In this conversation with Stacey Chillemi, Diana opens up about healing lymphatic cancer without chemicals, discovering macrobiotics in the 1990s, and realizing that the root of so much illness is unhealed emotion. She explains how negative self-talk gets stored in the body, how to break emotional loops, why relationships suffer when we seek someone to “complete” us, and how her program “The Diamond Within” walks people through real transformation. It’s a heart-centered, wise, and deeply practical talk on becoming whole.
Thank you so much for joining us! Our readers would love to get to know you a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your backstory?
Hello! Thank you so much for having me. My name is Diana, and I am a bestselling author, transformational teacher, inspirational coach, and the creator of the educational program called “The Diamond Within.” I help emotionally sensitive women who are searching for balance and clarity and who want to live a life of purpose and joy, but to do it with grace and ease. I am very happy to be here to share wisdom and knowledge, because everything I teach comes from experience in my own life… body, mind, and soul.
What does “upgrading your health from the inside out” really look like?
For me, everything begins with understanding that what we go through in life is closely related to our emotions. Emotions are not just feelings; they are energy moving through us, and when we stay focused on negative experiences, that energy becomes embedded in the body. If someone spoke to us unkindly, or we spoke to ourselves in a harmful way, the body keeps that memory like a seed. If we keep watering that seed with negative thoughts and emotions, years later, it can grow into imbalance or even illness. Upgrading from the inside out means we stop treating only the surface and start nurturing the body from within, with love, emotional healing, and awareness.
How do negative emotions become physical illness over time?
When something painful happens and we don’t release it, it doesn’t just disappear… it stays in the cells. We may forget the original situation, but the body has not forgotten; it keeps the memory of what happened. If we keep telling the story again and again or speaking negatively to ourselves, we keep nurturing that old energy until it becomes something we later call “disease.” Most people only look from the outside — they do tests, they take chemicals — but they don’t look at the emotional cause, so they stay chronically unwell. True healing comes when we understand that the body has deep intelligence and that our emotional well-being is part of our physical health.
You shared a very powerful story about having lymphatic cancer in your 30s. What happened during that time?
Yes, I had lymphatic cancer in my 30s, and I healed it without chemicals. At that time, I didn’t know anything about spirituality or other ways of healing, and for two years, I did all kinds of medical tests, and everything came back inconclusive. The doctors didn’t know what was wrong, and I became tired and angry and almost gave up on medical science. Then I met an 85-year-old doctor who simply looked at me and said, “Where have you been for the last two years? Call your family. You have lymphatic cancer.” That moment woke me up and started my journey of self-awakening, and I began asking for help and guidance from life itself.
How did you actually find your way toward natural healing and food as medicine?
My family was scared for me, so they couldn’t support this direction, especially because I had a three-year-old child and a two-month-old baby. I went from one natural practitioner to another — maybe 20 or 25 — but everyone said the same thing: they would try, but there were no guarantees, and in those days you couldn’t really mix medical and alternative. Finally, I met the woman who led the homeopathic association in Germany, and I told her, “I am not leaving until you give me an answer.” After a long silence, she said, “Why don’t you try macrobiotics? It’s a way to treat the body using food as energy.” I felt deep inside that this was the door that would lead me to healing. I went to a retreat in the forest in Holland for months, left my babies at home, and learned how to heal my body, mind, and soul naturally. That was when I discovered that there is a greater side of life that can heal us, a side we are not taught at home or in school.
What is the very first inner shift you recommend to someone who wants to feel better?
The first step is always self-acceptance and taking full responsibility for our lives. As long as we are blaming someone else — a person, a situation, even our past — we stay in weakness. Life gives us challenges so that we can overcome and empower ourselves from within; there is no challenge given to us that we cannot overcome if we are willing. When we say, “This is my life, my health, my body,” we step into our own power. Without that, nothing can really be achieved, because healing begins when we stop giving our power away.
Why is it so important to see the body, mind, and soul as one?
Because most people live as if they are separate pieces; mind here, body there, heart somewhere else. But the body talks to us all the time; when we don’t hear the whispers, it has to speak through pain to make us listen. Even a small hurt finger is felt by the whole body because we are one organism trying to stay in balance. When we love the body, feed it well, speak kindly to it, and stop abusing it with negative emotions, the body responds beautifully. Self-care, self-love, and respecting the body’s intelligence are not luxuries — they are essential.
A lot of people feel stuck in emotional loops like stress, breakup stories, or low motivation. How do you help someone break that loop?
An emotional loop is created when we keep focusing on the same painful situation and retelling it. If we had a painful breakup and we keep talking about it to our girlfriends, we are actually keeping the emotion stuck, like glue — it cannot leave. To free that emotion, we must step out of the circle and become an observer and ask, “What is it in me that attracted this situation?” Because we are magnets. Maybe it was a lack of self-worth, feeling not good enough, abandonment… There is always a seed. If we don’t heal that seed, life will bring the same lesson in another person or situation, because wherever we go, we take ourselves with us. Healing our emotions frees us, but also frees generations before and after us.
What roles do self-talk and mindset play in our physical well-being?
It is extremely important because every cell in the body has ears. The body hears everything we say, even when we are not paying attention to ourselves. We work so hard on diets and nutrition, but then we abuse our bodies with negative words, and we don’t even notice it. When we start listening to what comes out of our mouths and even write it down, we can see what keeps us in a negative consciousness. When we speak to our body with awareness and love, the body starts to bloom like a flower, and we start to recognize ourselves again.
You created affirmations and oracle cards on your website — how do those help someone heal?
Yes, I created affirmation cards — 58 facets of diamond consciousness and 58 facets of affirmations — to help heal every part of life. They teach people how to speak to their body in a way the body can understand. The best way is to say the affirmations in front of the mirror, because then you can see your own emotional reaction. Even if it doesn’t feel like you at first, the subconscious mind takes everything literally; it doesn’t separate real from not yet real. If we do it daily, we become more balanced, more aware, and much stronger from within.
When it comes to relationships, what is one simple daily approach that helps couples or close friends deepen their connection?
Life is about relationships, but it begins with the relationship to ourselves. Many people look for someone to complete them because they feel they are lacking something, and that is where problems begin. If we depend on another person to fill our emptiness, it will not last, because nobody is perfect, and life is not meant to be perfect. But when two people love each other, accept each other, and are willing to grow together, then the relationship can last for a very long time. Coming from self-love and a willingness to learn together is the key.
How are words like spells that can create reality?
Words are building blocks of reality, and we should never disregard them. People often say, “I just said it,” but words are like seeds; they have the potential to grow into a tree and affect our emotions, our health, and our bodies. If we speak negatively, we cannot expect everything to become beautiful afterwards. We are meant to speak with love and compassion, even if the other person is not loving, because their level of consciousness is simply not there yet. When we take responsibility for our own thoughts, words, emotions, and actions, we become self-empowered, because we cannot change others; we can only change ourselves.
If someone is listening right now and feels behind in life or hopeless, what is the first step they can take today?
The first step is desire; a real inner choice to heal, feel better, and connect to the soul. Some people look at many modalities but never decide, and that is why nothing changes. When the desire is strong, life comes to meet you, but when we are very low emotionally, we often cannot lift ourselves. In that situation, we need someone to help us — a mentor, a guide — because if we could have done it alone, we would have done it already. A mentor helps us raise our consciousness so we can see life from a different window.
Can you tell us about your online program “The Diamond Within”?
Yes, of course. My online educational program is called “The Diamond Within Transformational Program.” It helps people understand life from the ground level up to the level of flow, like a diamond that has been polished. It teaches about emotions, thoughts, health issues, and becoming self-empowered, so you don’t have to depend on others. It has 16 professionally filmed modules, a book, and a workbook with questions and answers, and I also offer six coaching sessions to guide people through the process. I don’t just sell a program… I stay there to hold their hand and answer their questions so they can truly transform.
You read a beautiful poem called “Connect to Diamond Within.” What is the main message behind that piece?
The poem is an invitation to connect to the soul — to the diamond within — because the moment we do that, life changes 360 degrees. It speaks about looking at the world through the eyes of love and oneness and seeing every moment as a gift from God. It reminds us to drink happiness from the chalice of hope and to let the inner light shine through the filters so every step is illuminated. It also tells us that when we are wrapped in love, we are protected in our search for deeper love. It is about remembering that everything we are looking for is already within us.
If there is one thing you want listeners and readers to walk away with from today’s conversation, what would it be?
I would love everyone to have the desire to connect to their own diamond within. The moment we turn inward and become one with our soul, everything becomes clearer and easier. The filters that block our awareness start to polish away, and when we can see and feel clearly, we become unstoppable. Everything we ever wanted, we already have, but limiting beliefs stand in the way. When we heal those, there is nothing we cannot become.
How can our readers further follow your work online?
My website is thediamondwithin.co.uk. My books are available there and on Amazon.
I am also active on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I offer a free discovery session for anyone who wants to understand how to change their life and transform emotional sensitivity into emotional power.
Diana, this has been such a beautiful and powerful conversation. You shared so much heart and depth, and I know our audience will really benefit.
Thank you, Stacey. I truly enjoyed being here, and you are doing an amazing job bringing this kind of wisdom to people. Whatever we do to make this world a better place will happen much sooner when we do it together. Thank you so much for having me.
