Joanne Ameya Cohen on aligning with your body’s wisdom

1. JOANNEAMEYACOHEN

2. on aligning with your body’s wisdom, setting boundaries, and feeling emotionally free.

4. Joanne is an expert herbalist and flower essence therapist, inspirational speaker, feminine embodiment mentor and author of the upcoming book,  The Healthy Feminine Leader: Alleviate Stress, Balance Your Hormones and Tap into Your Power. Joanne combines her expertise to help women balance their hormonal and reproductive health systems through healing their hearts and embodying their innate truth, power and wisdom.

6. Also working as a birth doula, childbirth educator, and midwife assistant, Joanne has supported hundreds of women to face their fears, worries, anxieties, and joys in order for them to birth themselves as mothers. Joanne has been schooled in the ways of women over the last 14 years in private practice and humbly teaches all she has learned. I asked Joanne to come here today because I’ve had first-hand experience with what she does and she is incredible.

7. Joanne is a master at finding the most gentle yet the most powerful methods to make women feel infinitely more healthy.

8. “The Healthy Feminine Leader: Alleviate Stress, Balance Your Hormones and Tap into Your Power” by Joanne Ameya Cohen

9. She’s proud that she’s committed to herown emotional healing, that she’s really willing to be messy and beautiful and expand more and more even when that feels really scary. She’s proud of the incredible relationships that she has with women in herlife that she calls sisters and she always had the most incredible women in her life. She feels really proud of that and know that they’ve pretty much shaped who she become. She’s proud of her deep connection to nature and that she can communicate and can act with plant spirits and plant medicines. She feels really proud of the work that she does in the world and she feels so honored and so grateful that she get to support women, to celebrate their wisdom, their beauty, and their radiance.

10. Rachel: I would love if you would just describe a particularly notable time that comes up for you when things weren’t going the way that you wanted or you felt trapped.

12. She thinks that we have tendencies when we look at people we really admire and respect to think that that just kind of happened. For the most part, there are many ebbs and flows and pulsations that bring us up and then bring us back down and bring us up. For her, the second half of her twenties were really, really rough.

13. She was, at that time, in a really dysfunctional relationship and she couldn’t quite get herself to leave. She really, really loved this man, yet knew in her heart that her needs were never going to be met. Because of this intense back and forth that she felt and the intense emotional turmoil, she put so much of her life on hold. She also didn’t have a lot of energy to put into other parts of her life, so she was really struggling with money.

16. She was having chronic yeast infections because the way that she look at it is because her most feminine parts were trying to communicate with her and tell her that there was a disconnect between her soul’s whisperings and her actions. She also wasn’t living her dharma. She wasn’t growing her business. She wasn’t reaching the women that she knew in her heart she was here on this planet to serve. Life felt so challenging. She really felt trapped. She just felt like how is this pattern, how is this relationship, this money, this business, my health going to shift and change? It was really, really a big challenge and a lot of heartache and pain that she went through.

17. She had been living in Hawaii, and she moved from Hawaii to Los Angeles. She started focusing on her business because something inside of her said that she had to choose herself. When she said, “yes” to choosing herself, everything just opened. All the energies that felt stuck, stagnant, and broken really, really opened.

19. She ended her relationship with the guy and it was terrible, heartbreaking, and heart wrenching. She’s not sure if she ever gone through that level of heartache in her life and yet she knew that it was a must. Whatever she was feeling and however uncomfortable the pain in her heart was, she also knew that it had to happen. It was a really long journey of my healing. She had a lot of books that she read and a lot of friends who helped her. They owned tools that she used. It took her a long while to end that relationship, find herself again, and find her money, work, and health. It was a beautiful, beautiful journey in the pain and the opening.

21. The reason she moved to L.A. was because she had an astrologer years before tell her that it was a good place to live because in the moment in Hawaii, she just felt like where is she going to go? What is about to happen? She had one friend in Los Angeles who she went to college with and it was all just very beautifully synchronistic. Her friend’s roommate was actually leaving for three months, so she moved in with her.

22. One of the biggest pieces was she felt like she really needed to create financial abundance for herself. She had moved somewhere new. She had to buy a car; She had left her car in Hawaii because she kind of just left. There was a lot of her that was just visioning her life thinking what kind of money does she need to make right now? She spent a lot of time creating connections and meeting people. Like she said, there was a lot of ease for her getting doula jobs.

23. She still talk to people about this because in comparison to the stuck and the sadness that she had been feeling for so long in her relationship and in Hawaii, there was so much ease when she got to Los Angeles, which just affirmed everything for her.

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